NCI Member Kathy Townsend of Newington, VA submitted this photo snapped by an on-the-ball service technician. The homeowner had added a room over the summer and for some reason was having a problem keeping the furnace going on the first cold day. When the tech...
Kevin Heikkila found this ten gallon duct in a five gallon bucket on a Michigan commercial job. Kevin specializes in hospitals and institutional type buildings. You would imagine this level of work wouldn’t have new construction residential defect like this, but...
Dale Gibson of Gibson Air Systems in Jamaica, Virginia offers his new invention, a black spotted filtration system that slips directly onto a cooling or heating coil!… Just kidding folks, this cooling coil with a ¾” blanket of yuck. This cruddy coil was...
This fine example of advanced sheet metal craftsmanship was found on a rooftop on Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an example of how not to use eight sheet metal elbows to transition from a packaged unit to an existing duct system where the supply and return connections to...
JN Brown of the Jim Brown Company found this wicked 7.5 ton installation in a church. It may have been the good intention of the budget committee to save some short term contributions in this installation, but judging by the size of the single 12″ supply and the...
