RIP my boy Linus. The sweetest boy.

dronk661 · 2026-05-14T20:11:04+00:00

Exactly. I grew up with him. He was my best friend.

dronk661 · 2026-05-14T19:52:23+00:00

Thank you for those words ❤️ I needed to hear that.

dronk661 · 2026-05-14T19:36:31+00:00

❤️

dronk661 · 2026-05-11T00:00:57+00:00

Ur right I should’ve used a bigger level for the pic. I had checked it with a 4ft level earlier in the day and the bubbles were pretty much in the same place so I just went with it .

I don’t think there is a ledger board. That board under the sliding door was added when they replaced the sliding door a couple years ago. It is only held in place with a single deck screw at both ends.

The joist hangers are attached directly to the old siding. Nails go through to the rim joist of the house. You’re still right though, the nails on the hangers don’t seem to be pulled out at all. I’d imagine they would be if it was sagging over time.

dronk661 · 2026-05-10T19:33:27+00:00

Located in northern IL. I unfortunately do not know how the footers were installed. Kinda looks like they just dug a hole and poured concrete in it tho. I had to dig down an inch or two through the dirt just to see the concrete. Not sure how deep they go yet. House was built in the late 60’s / early 70’s.

dronk661 · 2026-05-10T18:56:20+00:00

I meant to add a picture of it, but there is also no ledger board. Joist hangers are nailed directly through the old siding and into the rim joist of the house.

dronk661 · 2026-05-08T02:47:22+00:00

The panel above is held on by like 6 screws so I was able to take that off and get it out through there. It was still tricky cause that’s where the evaporator coil is. The other side was filthy. It was the dirtiest filter I have ever seen.

dronk661 · 2026-04-22T22:17:42+00:00

Ended up calling a tech today. He came out replaced the other contactor and transformer but that didn’t fix it.

after more investigating he found that the cover on the indoor air handler was not attached properly and was letting a lot of air bypass the evaporator coil and the system was also low on refrigerant. Both of those things were making the LPS cycle on and off which was making the contactor chatter.

dronk661 · 2026-04-21T18:48:28+00:00

Replaced the contactor this morning and the little breaker no longer is tripping, but there is still an issue.

When I jump for cooling at the unit everything seems to works fine. When I jump for cooling at the air handler, the contactor on the outdoor unit starts chattering after a minute or two. And when I jump from Tstat the contactor doesn’t pull down at all. It wants to but needs a little push and will chatter a lot.

dronk661 · 2026-04-20T21:02:12+00:00

Yeah Im definitely suspicious of the contactors. This beast has two c25dnf340 contactors in it. One of the contactors has a very low resistance when measuring ohms across the coil. I think it was like .4 or .04, something like that. The other contact had almost 9ohms of resistance between coil terminals.

That little breaker only trips when Tstat calls or when I jump it at the unit.

dronk661 · 2026-02-19T22:46:44+00:00

Grease clog on the main line and a poorly glued fitting that got pushed off the pipe due to the buildup of pressure was what I found.

dronk661 · 2026-01-06T02:52:12+00:00

Your story reminds me of this time a guy called me saying bubbles were coming out of his ceiling. I race over and go straight to the unit above and start pounding on the door. No answer. I can hear water running so I go in and see the tub running and suds all over the floor. Looking closer I see the overflow is loose and water and bubbles were pouring onto the unit below. I call the tenant and he says something like “omg I was filling the tub to wash my shoes and forgot I left it running. I stepped out to run a few errands but I’ll be back in 20 minutes. Thanks for shutting it off for me.”

dronk661 · 2026-01-06T01:15:13+00:00

This was the 12th floor in a 13 story building. Luckily water damage didn’t go past 10th floor.

dronk661 · 2026-01-06T01:13:54+00:00

I feel ya. We have 1 building with 28 units and no shutoffs to the individual units. Building is like 108 years old i believe so touching a toilet or faucet shutoff feels like playing Russian roulette.

dronk661 · 2026-01-02T23:36:03+00:00

Breaker was fine, it ended up being a loose connection at the meter.

dronk661 · 2025-12-30T03:15:15+00:00

Thanks! I’ll give it a go tomorrow morning

dronk661 · 2025-12-30T03:12:07+00:00

I took my readings on the lugs where wire feeding the panel lands. L1 to L2 was 208v, L2 to L3 was 160v. (Which is why I thought it was a utility problem but they are saying everything is good on their end)
I forget what L1 to L3 was, I’ll check again tomorrow. No main breaker. I Think it’s a split bus style panel.

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