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Do It Yourself AC Coil Cleaning tutorial (for those who insist)

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okay the name of this channel is anti
00:00:06.490 00:00:06.500 DIY HVAC obviously that says a lot about
00:00:12.709 00:00:12.719 my opinion of any of the do-it-yourself
00:00:16.970 00:00:16.980 type things involving heating and air
00:00:21.679 00:00:21.689 conditioning I'm certainly against it so
00:00:26.720 00:00:26.730 you know no matter how much we we we
00:00:31.370 00:00:31.380 tell you that you know you need to hire
00:00:33.530 00:00:33.540 a professional you shouldn't do these
00:00:35.750 00:00:35.760 things people are going to do some
00:00:39.530 00:00:39.540 things on their own and honestly some
00:00:42.170 00:00:42.180 people are more qualified than others
00:00:43.760 00:00:43.770 but I'm going to show a homeowner
00:00:47.930 00:00:47.940 version of coil cleaning that that I
00:00:51.770 00:00:51.780 think a homeowner should do first of all
00:00:55.459 00:00:55.469 wear gloves get some latex gloves second
00:01:00.319 00:01:00.329 this is what I suggest get online and
00:01:04.280 00:01:04.290 order you a aerosol can of new bright
00:01:09.010 00:01:09.020 new Calgon condenser coil cleaner okay
00:01:15.140 00:01:15.150 this is what I suggest now as a
00:01:17.870 00:01:17.880 professional we would take this machine
00:01:20.749 00:01:20.759 apart unwire the fan and take the lid
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00:01:25.760 00:01:25.770 homeowner I'm going to show you exactly
00:01:27.560 00:01:27.570 what I think a homeowner should do
00:01:29.499 00:01:29.509 number one remove the disconnect all I
00:01:34.730 00:01:34.740 did was pulled the plug obviously that's
00:01:39.200 00:01:39.210 number one and now I'm going to show you
00:01:41.929 00:01:41.939 how to apply this I'm gonna hook our
00:01:43.940 00:01:43.950 hose up I use these little things
00:01:46.639 00:01:46.649 because they you know they're really
00:01:51.710 00:01:51.720 handy as you can see
00:01:54.889 00:01:54.899 that doesn't take up a lot of room and I
00:02:01.130 00:02:01.140 think this one is 75 feet and as soon as
00:02:10.619 00:02:10.629 we cut the water on it'll go out to 75
00:02:12.780 00:02:12.790 feet as soon as we turn it off it will
00:02:14.550 00:02:14.560 return to this configuration right here
00:02:17.009 00:02:17.019 and go right back in the bucket on the
00:02:18.330 00:02:18.340 shelf so I'm going to show you this in a
00:02:21.210 00:02:21.220 couple of steps and if you insist on
00:02:24.600 00:02:24.610 cleaning your own coil this would be a
00:02:26.850 00:02:26.860 good video as a guide for you okay the
00:02:30.270 00:02:30.280 first thing to do after removing to
00:02:33.509 00:02:33.519 disconnect and killing the power to the
00:02:35.370 00:02:35.380 unit and wearing gloves is to take your
00:02:38.699 00:02:38.709 coil cleaner don't shake it just flip it
00:02:44.640 00:02:44.650 upside down and back and forth a couple
00:02:47.580 00:02:47.590 of times
00:02:48.979 00:02:48.989 remove the lid
00:02:52.319 00:02:52.329 I don't think shaking is a good idea so
00:02:56.940 00:02:56.950 always start at the top so that the
00:02:59.670 00:02:59.680 product can fall down and not waste
00:03:02.059 00:03:02.069 it'll kind of cover now this will
00:03:11.059 00:03:11.069 actually start to foam pretty quick but
00:03:17.819 00:03:17.829 once it foams you can see what you've
00:03:19.920 00:03:19.930 missed and what you've gotten so just be
00:03:23.430 00:03:23.440 patient with it and apply it like that
00:03:30.160 00:03:30.170 and try to try not to go at much of an
00:03:34.000 00:03:34.010 angle if you have to do smaller sections
00:03:37.720 00:03:37.730 you can do smaller sections but try to
00:03:42.520 00:03:42.530 let it spray it straight at it as it can
00:03:50.550 00:03:50.560 like these corners you see I'll do a
00:03:55.510 00:03:55.520 little more straight then I'll go get
00:04:05.500 00:04:05.510 the other side just in order to keep it
00:04:09.430 00:04:09.440 as straight as possible sometimes the
00:04:12.880 00:04:12.890 bushes interfere nothing wrong with
00:04:15.610 00:04:15.620 angling down it's just not not too far
00:04:21.580 00:04:21.590 side to side that you don't want to get
00:04:25.110 00:04:25.120 because you're hoping as you're spraying
00:04:27.820 00:04:27.830 this that it goes inside between the
00:04:33.970 00:04:33.980 fins a good bit now the manufacturers
00:04:38.159 00:04:38.169 recommend slightly wetting the coil with
00:04:43.300 00:04:43.310 a hose and I found that effective for
00:04:48.730 00:04:48.740 other products but with this product it
00:04:52.719 00:04:52.729 has worked very well the way I'm going
00:04:55.120 00:04:55.130 to show you to do it just by spraying it
00:04:58.390 00:04:58.400 straight on the drakul and then we're
00:05:03.130 00:05:03.140 going to hose it off a little different
00:05:05.080 00:05:05.090 and a professional might do it okay now
00:05:10.030 00:05:10.040 that's about as big of a unit as you're
00:05:11.920 00:05:11.930 going to get out of one of these cans
00:05:15.990 00:05:16.000 the first time you do it suggest that
00:05:20.590 00:05:20.600 you order a couple of these
00:05:23.490 00:05:23.500 just until you learn exactly what it
00:05:27.060 00:05:27.070 takes and this is something you can do
00:05:29.370 00:05:29.380 every year if you want to but you don't
00:05:30.720 00:05:30.730 really have to it's kind of subjective
00:05:33.110 00:05:33.120 so the other thing you want to do from
00:05:35.490 00:05:35.500 this point you can see the dirt coming
00:05:38.190 00:05:38.200 out of it so from this point the other
00:05:42.390 00:05:42.400 thing you want to do is want to let this
00:05:47.490 00:05:47.500 sit probably a good 5 minutes at least
00:05:52.010 00:05:52.020 it's not going to hurt to sit closer to
00:05:55.410 00:05:55.420 10 but you don't want it to completely
00:05:57.930 00:05:57.940 go away and fall off and turn to liquid
00:06:01.470 00:06:01.480 just let it foam up for a good 5 minutes
00:06:04.310 00:06:04.320 so we're going to do that right now ok
00:06:08.520 00:06:08.530 we let it sit and foam looking at the
00:06:15.630 00:06:15.640 top here it looks like about seven to
00:06:18.659 00:06:18.669 eight minutes and so I'm gonna show you
00:06:22.830 00:06:22.840 how we hose it down now if we're doing
00:06:26.100 00:06:26.110 it from the outside now like I said the
00:06:29.159 00:06:29.169 professional will commonly take the lid
00:06:33.510 00:06:33.520 off and unwire the fan and do what we
00:06:37.110 00:06:37.120 call a back flush flush it's backwards
00:06:43.100 00:06:43.110 I'm gonna adjust this
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00:06:48.500 00:06:48.510 to where it is just barely office train
00:06:54.360 00:06:54.370 you see that starting to do some trance
00:06:58.370 00:06:58.380 and then that is a strong scream I'm
00:07:02.040 00:07:02.050 just gonna barely take it off the stream
00:07:05.460 00:07:05.470 I'm just kind of have like a fan screen
00:07:07.410 00:07:07.420 who is still pretty strong
00:07:22.980 00:07:22.990 what we're doing is respective now I'm
00:07:26.760 00:07:26.770 never going to tell you that a DIY
00:07:30.410 00:07:30.420 situation is going to be 100% as
00:07:34.830 00:07:34.840 efficient and effective as a
00:07:38.070 00:07:38.080 professional doing the job because I
00:07:40.410 00:07:40.420 just don't believe that's a big truth
00:07:43.940 00:07:43.950 but I'm doing one section at a time here
00:07:47.420 00:07:47.430 just like this okay I'm gonna
00:07:54.230 00:07:54.240 rinse this one second in a time and I'm
00:07:57.020 00:07:57.030 going to do in Reverse what we did when
00:07:59.180 00:07:59.190 you applied you're going to rent from
00:08:01.879 00:08:01.889 the bottom first
00:08:07.140 00:08:07.150 and each section
00:08:10.739 00:08:10.749 with like you watching here
00:08:15.090 00:08:15.100 and there's nothing wrong with rinsing
00:08:18.660 00:08:18.670 this to the inside a professional
00:08:20.670 00:08:20.680 wouldn't do it this way not usually but
00:08:25.160 00:08:25.170 to the do-it-yourself kind this is what
00:08:27.720 00:08:27.730 off the bitch and there's nothing wrong
00:08:30.810 00:08:30.820 with rinsing the water back into the
00:08:32.760 00:08:32.770 inner that is designed to be out in the
00:08:34.500 00:08:34.510 rain but this does put a different angle
00:08:37.950 00:08:37.960 on it so I would suggest using that
00:08:40.110 00:08:40.120 power out for at least one hour after
00:08:43.710 00:08:43.720 you doing some people want to be this
00:08:47.850 00:08:47.860 twice if you think you look tired
00:08:57.610 00:08:57.620 we completed it get them taken dirt out
00:09:03.330 00:09:03.340 the reason our to do the rents from the
00:09:06.280 00:09:06.290 bottom up is to not dilute the cleaner
00:09:11.620 00:09:11.630 before the pressure pushes it through
00:09:13.780 00:09:13.790 the pins now obviously you can go from
00:09:16.900 00:09:16.910 the top down doing a thorough reps
00:09:20.350 00:09:20.360 process that they suggested rinse it
00:09:23.740 00:09:23.750 thoroughly with water several times
00:09:25.920 00:09:25.930 after you flushed all the cleaners here
00:09:32.220 00:09:32.230 once again keep in mind not do it
00:09:37.330 00:09:37.340 yourself HVAC services at all completely
00:09:41.920 00:09:41.930 against it but if you're going to do
00:09:45.100 00:09:45.110 this part of it I've just thought I will
00:09:47.050 00:09:47.060 show you my opinion
00:09:58.560 00:09:58.570 and while suspension I could probably do
00:10:04.620 00:10:04.630 this a little more efficiently and have
00:10:08.220 00:10:08.230 a little bit more effect I think this is
00:10:11.790 00:10:11.800 gonna do a fair job what we're after
00:10:15.330 00:10:15.340 this keep in mind that if your unit is
00:10:17.580 00:10:17.590 nicer and newer than this one the
00:10:22.890 00:10:22.900 cleaners do tend to oxidize the finish a
00:10:26.550 00:10:26.560 bit I have seen people take car wax and
00:10:33.500 00:10:33.510 rub that painted surface down just try
00:10:38.040 00:10:38.050 to get the shine back and kind of
00:10:39.780 00:10:39.790 protective
00:10:47.270 00:10:47.280 00:10:56.730 00:10:56.740 and it's not done by professional
00:10:59.160 00:10:59.170 eventually these drain holes in the
00:11:01.950 00:11:01.960 bottom of the stream can get clogged up
00:11:05.330 00:11:05.340 and you know by no means am I telling
00:11:09.540 00:11:09.550 you that this is my beer I'm just saying
00:11:13.110 00:11:13.120 if this is what you're gonna do and
00:11:16.560 00:11:16.570 you're determined to do it yourself
00:11:18.000 00:11:18.010 instead of changing professional and
00:11:21.770 00:11:21.780 watching this video it may help you a
00:11:23.940 00:11:23.950 little bit
00:11:30.270 00:11:30.280 and this time this against the bottom
00:11:33.210 00:11:33.220 out there as much as I can just not
00:11:37.560 00:11:37.570 going to do this nearly as effective as
00:11:40.830 00:11:40.840 a professional would with the lid off
00:11:44.610 00:11:44.620 going from the inside out
00:11:58.790 00:11:58.800 we do this to get by one time we might
00:12:01.890 00:12:01.900 want to consider having the compression
00:12:03.510 00:12:03.520 we'll do it the next time or you know
00:12:07.200 00:12:07.210 once every few years at least
00:12:09.980 00:12:09.990 the do-it-yourself concepts they can be
00:12:16.530 00:12:16.540 fun and educational like it's not always
00:12:22.280 00:12:22.290 a lot of times it's counterproductive
00:12:25.880 00:12:25.890 and I would certainly not suggest we do
00:12:29.310 00:12:29.320 anything besides this as far as as far
00:12:33.120 00:12:33.130 as the do-it-yourself situation with
00:12:36.900 00:12:36.910 your HVAC system goes this is all I
00:12:39.060 00:12:39.070 would suggest to this certainly we never
00:12:41.490 00:12:41.500 suggest the homeowner cleaning
00:12:44.100 00:12:44.110 evaporator coils through any type of
00:12:49.340 00:12:49.350 testing and servicing the electronics so
00:12:53.370 00:12:53.380 the electrical systems at all
00:12:55.490 00:12:55.500 a lot of that it's impossible to test
00:12:59.060 00:12:59.070 without it being live and running and it
00:13:00.980 00:13:00.990 could be dangerous
00:13:04.420 00:13:04.430 some of you can be brave but in no way
00:13:10.100 00:13:10.110 do I endorse doing any more than what
00:13:12.350 00:13:12.360 you're watching here today and like I
00:13:14.930 00:13:14.940 said after you're done with this
00:13:17.030 00:13:17.040 I definitely suggest that you let this
00:13:22.010 00:13:22.020 thing sit for at least one hour and then
00:13:26.360 00:13:26.370 put the power back on it don't start it
00:13:28.790 00:13:28.800 back up and hopefully that offers a
00:13:33.500 00:13:33.510 little bit of insight to the homeowner
00:13:35.570 00:13:35.580 that insists on doing it himself just
00:13:39.560 00:13:39.570 remember to be careful and anytime
00:13:41.240 00:13:41.250 you're in any question at all
00:13:43.220 00:13:43.230 call a professional we're trained for
00:13:45.740 00:13:45.750 this and experienced at it and it's
00:13:48.910 00:13:48.920 likely gonna be in your best interest to
00:13:51.440 00:13:51.450 do so but I hope it did you some good
00:13:54.350 00:13:54.360 just thought I'd make the quick video
00:13:56.150 00:13:56.160 thanks for watching

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