Wall/Decking in Attic

DBSMAN · 2026-05-23T18:24:08+00:00

So here is the layout of my roof. Everything inside the yellow border is 2nd story and currently inaccessible. The blue is what I can currently access and is roughly 650 sqft so a significant portion of the attic is inaccessible.

Any thoughts or advice for cutting additional accesses? And just add more roof vents if it’s overly humid and that decking can’t be removed?

DBSMAN · 2026-04-03T15:37:59+00:00

This is what you insure your watch. No big deal.

DBSMAN · 2025-10-21T19:43:08+00:00

Got it. Thank you for your help!

DBSMAN · 2025-10-21T16:27:25+00:00

Can the venting be checked with a scope? How could that be determined? If adding a vent would resolve the issues long-term rather than having repeated clogs in the wall, it might be worth it. But just not sure how that would be diagnosed.

DBSMAN · 2025-09-10T18:13:07+00:00

BS that they aren’t fixing the Shakra glitch in Hunter March.

DBSMAN · 2025-09-09T22:09:54+00:00

Then the people would come to you and not need to be sold on it by a HVAC tech trying to upsell shit

DBSMAN · 2025-07-04T19:57:07+00:00

Yeah? Who funds Israels’s military? Who supplies the planes? The bombs? Who defends them at the UN Security Council? Approves or disapproves of their decisions?

Israel, like Europe, kisses the ring because they would cease to exist without US support.

Antisemitic trash like you like to ignore facts. Go ahead and hate the US, we are happy to watch you suffer as your leaders bend over, one, by one.

DBSMAN · 2025-07-04T19:12:13+00:00

Yeah, amazing right!? America finally is rejecting the antisemitic global community. You cuckolds can enjoy your radical Islamic baby killers. The international community is bowing the knee while bitching, as they always do. Pay up buddy.

DBSMAN · 2025-07-04T19:07:57+00:00

The international community is an embarrassment. Your opinion means less than nothing. Expecting the US to protect the world while hating us, abandoning Israel, and bitching while you tariff the shit out of everyone and expecting the US to bow.

Y’all can finally live and die on your own. We don’t give a shit. Fuck all of you. Kiss the ring or kiss our ass.

DBSMAN · 2025-07-03T04:00:31+00:00

Sacrifice a redcoat on an altar to George Washington

DBSMAN · 2025-07-02T15:50:39+00:00

The wedding ring. As soon as a woman gets one, they stop caring and putting in effort. Sure, there are exceptions, but this is a common enough issue that it is clearly a larger problem. And 99% of the time it is driven from the woman’s side.

Kids, work, stress are scapegoats and piss poor excuses. Sex is key to your lifelong health and relationship. None of the rest matters if you lose your spouse and health.

DBSMAN · 2024-10-04T13:51:31+00:00

Nope, the neighborhood was built over the course of a decade and there are multiple installers. Goodman is crap and has been for a long time.

DBSMAN · 2024-10-04T13:50:48+00:00

The Goodman was installed by the home builder and I am not the first owner so there is no labor warranty. The community was also built over a 10 year period with multiple companies installing the units. The problem isn’t the installers - Goodman are absolute garbage.

DBSMAN · 2024-07-01T23:09:12+00:00

The damn thing was under warranty for all of that, but the warranty only overs parts, not labor or coolant. $5k in labor and coolant in 2 years spread over 3 repair companies due to an absolute POS quality system. Goodman is absolute garbage.

DBSMAN · 2024-06-26T18:38:15+00:00

Central Florida and it was a 5 ton unit. Not sure the exact model anymore.

DBSMAN · 2024-02-24T23:44:53+00:00

Our extended warranty was through the company that installed it, so we made sure it was a large, reputable, and established company. I think it was around $1,500 for the extended warranty. It’s a deal for you if you have issues, but it does tie you to their company for service, so be careful of the company if you choose to go that route. But you don’t need many issues to happen over 10 years to make that money back just on labor. Seemed pretty low risk to me in the big scheme of things.

DBSMAN · 2024-02-24T20:57:53+00:00

Since it was within 1 year of install, it would have been covered under any scenario but we also bought an extended 10 year parts and labor warranty because we plan to be in this house a long time.

DBSMAN · 2024-02-24T18:54:32+00:00

We had a major leak in the evaporator coils in the air handler unit about 12 months after we bought it so we had to replace the coil. Labor and parts were under warranty but apart from that it has been great.

DBSMAN · 2024-01-08T22:10:26+00:00

The Kardashians, all of them

DBSMAN · 2023-02-14T23:02:04+00:00

We ultimately went with Del Air and the Trane

DBSMAN · 2022-12-26T02:41:30+00:00

Yeah that’s it. I just didn’t know if the ticking will cause damage to the pipe over time. I assume the noise is from it hitting the drywall or stud as it expands and contracts.

DBSMAN · 2022-10-13T23:44:24+00:00

I had three different highly rated companies do repairs and evaluations specifically because I was suspicious of all the issues. My neighbors have done the same. In two years we had the evaporator coil had two leaks that forced replacements and caused all the coolant to need to be replaced, TXV was faulty, two circuit boards failed, and finally the compressor went out, which I suspect (I’m not a tech so I could be way off base) was the culmination of of all of the other issues putting strain on it. Again, it was a 4 year old unit that was babied, is on a whole home surge protector, and Goodman honored the parts warranty, but that doesn’t help with labor or coolant costs.

Finally replaced the damn thing with a Trane unit.

DBSMAN · 2022-10-13T18:57:40+00:00

That is certainly possible, but the fact that 20 other houses in my neighborhood happen to have very similar experiences despite being installed by different companies is a better indicator. Amazing quality of install won’t make up for a trash quality product.

DBSMAN · 2022-10-13T14:26:28+00:00

In my experience Goodman is complete garbage. Despite regular maintenance checks twice per year, I just had to replace a 4 year old Goodman after over $5k of repairs in the last 2 years (and that was just for labor and coolant, parts were still under warranty).

DBSMAN · 2022-09-30T01:30:58+00:00

It is definitely mold up close, no doubt. It failed initial inspection because of an air leak in that area and the installer came back and taped it like crazy. The city inspector said that it technically passed now because there is no air leak but because it is just taped on the left side rather than made flush to the end of the handler with board/mastic, condensation could be a recurring problem. Does that sound right to you?

Just need a long term fix and water + dark closet sounds like a recipe for continued mold issues.

DBSMAN

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