Heating, cooling and duct work across Frisco and the towns north of it — with a particular interest in the shortcuts that get built into a house on a deadline and are never looked at again.
None of this is a scandal. A house gets built to a price against a schedule, the mechanical work is priced the same way, and everything on this list is a decision somebody made for a reason at the time.
Cheap to install, and it means every bedroom with its door closed is starved. It is the single most common thing we find in houses built in the last twenty years here.
Flex is quick to fit and forgiving of a route that a rigid duct could not take. It is also far more resistant to airflow when it is stretched, crushed or looped.
Convenient for wiring, and in the one part of the house that neither heats up nor cools down like the rooms people are actually in.
Rather than from a calculation for that plan on that lot with that glazing. The result is usually too big, which is worse here than too small.
Airflow per room, static pressure and refrigerant weighed in — all three are what tell you whether the installation was finished or simply completed.
Ducts in a space that reaches well over 120°F in July, insulated to the minimum that was specified and no more.
Most people describe a comfort problem by room, and most contractors answer by talking about equipment. The floor plan lets you do the first and get an answer about the second.
Pick the complaint, the plan shades the part of the house it usually comes from, and the note says which of the shortcuts above is behind it.
Frisco, Prosper, Little Elm, The Colony and Celina — new builds and the older stock alike.
Suites, clinics, studios and shops in the retail and office developments that came up with the houses.
Because a room that has never worked is a different problem from a room that stopped working. It is usually the length of the duct run, a flex duct that has been stretched or crushed, or the fact that the floor has one return for four bedrooms. The floor plan page narrows it.
It is the air the system pulls back to be cooled or heated again. With one return in the hall, every bedroom with its door shut is starved, and no amount of supply air fixes that. Transfer grilles, jump ducts and second returns are the answers, and all of them cost less than a bigger system.
Not in itself. Run straight, supported properly and kept short, it works. Stretched over a truss, kinked round a corner or crushed under stored boxes, it resists airflow far more than its rating suggests — and that is what we usually find.
Almost never, and it often makes things worse. If the duct system cannot carry what the current equipment makes, a larger one has the same problem with more air behind it.
Yes — suites, clinics, studios and shops, with planned service, a record per unit, and advice before partitions go up rather than after.
Frisco, Prosper, Little Elm, The Colony, Celina, Plano and McKinney.
7151 Preston Rd, Frisco, TX 75034
Frisco, Prosper, Little Elm, The Colony, Celina, Plano and McKinney.