Coil Cleaning Las Vegas Nevada

[tonyshelton]

This is coil cleaning season in the Southwest.

This is the time of year the industrious property managers, business owners, facilities managers and HVAC companies are calling on us to clean coils while the temps are mild and units being down for cleaning have little effect on the comfort of the employees, tenants or customers.

This customer asked for video documentation. This job consisted of around 50 large units plus some other work. We had to work within time limits due to ventilation concerns and the customer has relayed that they are happy with our work and wish to use us on other similar properties.

This is part of what we do.

It's a dirty job, but it puts food on the table.

[video=youtube;DeyWSNewH1Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeyWSNewH1Q[/video]

 

[New Look]

Hat's off to you Tony and your crews. As I watched the video I thought to myself that I never realized how much buildup there could be in the coils for AC and central air. Kinda reminds me when I watch videos from the greaser that are doing hoods.

Do you scrap the coils at all to try to remove the excess buildup before hitting them with water? If so...any special scrapers for this?

Majority of coils on the roof?

What frequency do you do these or is it as needed?

Impressive stuff bro......

 

[tonyshelton]

Hat's off to you Tony and your crews. As I watched the video I thought to myself that I never realized how much buildup there could be in the coils for AC and central air. Kinda reminds me when I watch videos from the greaser that are doing hoods.

Do you scrap the coils at all to try to remove the excess buildup before hitting them with water? If so...any special scrapers for this?

Majority of coils on the roof?

What frequency do you do these or is it as needed?

Impressive stuff bro......

Carlos, you can ask Sirocco Jerry - almost everything we use has to be custom fabricated.

Some of these coils were 12-16 ft across and ten feet high to boot. In the last quarter on many of them we only had one inch of clearance between the coil supports to even get a wand through.

You have to be careful brushing down the coils, especially at 12 ft away. I custom made brushes that take off the top layer of sticky gunk without pressing it deeper into the coils. That one section in the video where you see all that crap flapping around where it won't come off was filmed for the purpose of showing how just trying to clean it with a pressure washer from one side is futile.

The majority of these were inside on a hidden floor. Whenever you see vents like this along a building that is usually the mechanical floor. We run our hose here:

This is what one of those types of floors usually look like. They are all similar. We had three of these types of accounts this month scheduled.

[video=youtube;GEKP4TB5Ggk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEKP4TB5Ggk[/video]

We used 925 + ft of hose. With a ball valve we are still able to hit steam out temps when we need to. We used only two lengths of hose and wrap the connection with layers of rags so nothing is damaged and no one is hurt if an o-ring blows out.

We had 6 on on the roof like this:

These need to be cleaned every 3-7 years. Some of these had not ever been cleaned, but thankfully most of them had been filtered consistently and weren't that bad.

Contrast that with one we did earlier this month where the in-house maintenance had cleaned the first (thin) coil every year not realizing there was a much thicker coil behind it. It looked like a dirt dobber's nest from the mud they created. Needless to say they had to pay dearly for that mistake. $$$$. From now on we will be cleaning them on rotation annually.

 

[New Look]

Sweet and impressive. I like that red looking gadget in the pic above.

All I will say is that I will feel better breathing the air in the casinos all up and down L.V. BLVD knowing that Sonitx is on the job.