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Top Three Things to Implement in 2025

11 days ago 20

First, start pressure profiling your customer’s existing equipment and ductwork, then measure or plot the fan airflow. This needs to happen on ALL sales calls. I know what you’re thinking: my salesperson doesn’t own a drill, nor would I trust him...

Contracting Business Handoff the Air Upgrade

December 21, 2024 22

Another way to improve consistency is to add Project Areas. Each area is a specified location in your shop that includes everything needed to complete an Air Upgrade project. As a project’s materials are pulled or delivered, they are placed in...

Four Lessons I Learned Electrifying My Home

December 5, 2024 34

I have an open staircase to the basement, which allows return air to flow back to the air handler. I have noticed the dust doesn’t stay entrained in the air long enough to make it back to the MERV 16 filter. Another problem is that the 1.5-ton...

Prescribe an Air Upgrade Scope of Work

November 29, 2024 36

The NCI AirMaxx™ workflows used in the measureQuick and TrueFlow apps help simplify the diagnostic process and provide many of the targets you need. In the report snippet above, we have a downflow gas furnace with a variable speed motor. The...

Look Ma, No Snips!

November 10, 2024 49

Customer airflow issues can be solved without making major changes to the home’s duct system. Source link

How to Determine Customer Air Upgrade Interest

October 27, 2024 47

The second situation is a proactive scenario. These are the toughest to handle because there is no obvious existing problem the customer wants you to solve. You often find hidden airflow problems that haven’t caused immediate issues, or...

How Air Sealing Solved My House of Horrors

October 14, 2024 60

I used my home for a test case. It was built in 1961 and is in the western suburbs of Chicago. It is a 1,900-sq. ft. ranch with a full basement. A blower door is a frame covered with a vinyl material and has a fan mounted in the middle. I set it...

Adam Mufich | Contracting Business

October 1, 2024 62

Adam Mufich serves the HVAC industry as content developer and instructor for National Comfort Institute, Inc. (NCI). NCI specializes in training that focuses on improving, measuring, and verifying HVAC and Building Performance. Find them at...

Create Air Upgrade™ Leads with Static Pressure Testing

September 27, 2024 63

In unsuccessful companies, technicians were inconsistent with measurements and were not held accountable for not taking them. In their minds, these technicians heard two words when asked to test: “More work.” Since they didn’t understand the...

5 Tips to Improve Flexible Duct Installations

September 15, 2024 65

These fittings have a large amount of pressure drop and lack direction for airflow as air attempts to leave the fitting. That air gets lost inside the plenum mainly because of momentum loss in the fitting. In other words, as air enters the plenum...

Two Ignored Provide Register Traits

May 24, 2024 97

The existence of those two completely different zones is important to understanding efficient air mixing and room air flow. The overall thought is to ship provide air into the Air Mixing Zone and choose provide registers that preserve air...