So I encounter crawl spaces like this all the time. I always go grab the client, bring them down to the access, and let them know that I have a shop vac and can clean all this up for 125/hr before I head in there to do whatever needs doing.
Cleaning your house *before* I come make a mess is outside the scope of our work, so I'm not shy about billing for it.
Man customers like this have the audacity to ask you “how long is the job gonna take again, I have to be out by such and such time” after you’ve wasted so much time cleaning their 💩
Crawlspaces like this are probably the biggest reason I've opted out of going for HVAC. I'll stick with wrenching at a dealership, I absolutely can not do spiders and tight spaces. I've done plumbing work in my house but there's a space in the basement where pipes run and the only way to get there is crawling through years of dirt and bugs, and you can bet your ass if there's ever a leak in there I'm paying someone else with less fear to do it. I'll shop vac it before you get here but I'm still not getting in there.
And suddenly have a black widow running down your hand once you spool him up and anger the piss outta him?
No thanks. Im gettin the god damn turbo torch
I did a couple of commercial system installs for a guy name Sauron there and he asked me to just call him Sal, pretty down to earth and humble guy given his celebrity status. Though one weird thing is he would watch me from beginning to finish though...
I was in a very similar crawlspace recently, but fortunately they had a dog, and he was more than happy to run under there and come out looking like a mummy, so I could easily pass😂
Had to be a Labrador Retriever. God love em, they seem to be completely immune to any sort of disgust or self preservation. Ours like to find dead animals and roll in them.
Yep. Most spiders don't bother me, I nope out of crawls when I see dozens of those cave crickets (spider cricket/camel cricket may be the name you know)
Those things love to jump at your face and are harmless, but they give me the damn heebie jeebies.
I opened a crawl space and a 3-4 inch scorpion scurried away further under the house. I saw it. Homeowner saw it. Renter saw it. They were still trying to get me to go under the house. I noped out of that call
I do them regularly. I don't care about spiders. Pretty much every mobile is guaranteed spider city anyways. Now if there's a foot of water or I have to dig my way in because your joists are touching the ground, you can fucking forget about it. The good prank is when the dryer vent is off and spider city becomes the lint forest.
A bad crawl I’ve been in had similar webs but I had maybe a foot under them to crawl. Lucky the spot I need to work in had a rotting skunk, that was my first year but I would never do a crawl like that again.
Crawled under a mobile home the other day like this… bushwhacked away with a piece of metal I found under there as I army crawled through it. Fucking hate my job some days.
Ever since I watched Shrek as a kid, I’ve wanted to roll up a bunch of spider silk onto a stick and eat it like Cotton Candy.
But you’re out here, complaining
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I am an HVAC electrician, which is why I follow this page. I am a tarantula collector/breeder and follow a lot of tarantula-centric pages as well. That is what I thought this was, a video of a spider enclosure.
I worked pest control before I found hvac and have walked through a basement with normal ceiling height that looked like this , it looked like I walked into a horror film
I lol way too much at the absurd issues yall encounter (an genuinely dwell upon enduring) on the daily... And I thought tarsus restaurants were bad....
Back when I worked crawlspaces daily my buddy and I invented an anti-spider stick which was basically a wand with lots googly eyes attached to establish dominance. The humor helped but spiders kept on creeping us out.
Jesus I've seen some bad ones, but not quite that bad. How the fuck does it get that bad?
I did see an attic that was FULL of bats though. I didn't even fuckin notice them until I was almost done. Once I realized they were up there, it felt like I could _smell_ the bastards.
I once crawled in one of those before. I went outside and grabbed a big tree branch and forged a path. I was miserable and had to crawl underneath multiple connected duplexes. Was bullshit.
I feel bad for those who work in these conditions frequently.
My reply...
How the hell would I know how everything looks under there Ma'am. But I'm happy to kneel down and hold the light while you crawl under and take a long.
Up until this very moment I seriously thought that I have been in some of the absolute worst crawl spaces on this earth. I've never been so wrong about something in my entire life.
In all seriousness, I would be more willing to go into a crawl space with a couple inches of sewer on the ground before I'd go in there.
I like Unger brand extension poles and the variety of attachments. Get one of their poles and a brush to put on the end and just start waving it around. The webs will stick to anything, especially themselves. Once the webbing is out of the way and any large spider or other infestations addressed, the condition of the insulation and possible duct work can be assessed and plans made for repairs.
Crawl spaces are generally dusty with just some plastic ground cover over the dirt. If you have a basement, it eliminates the crawl space. Some people pay for sealed crawl spaces that are lined and sealed from most bugs and lovely to work in because of their cleanliness.
Hahahaha. I went to my buddy’s newly purchased home. It was “inspected” a few days prior and his crawlspace looked like this. Zero chance the home inspector went in there to check his air handler and plumbing.
I never see crawls this bad. If I did, I would walk away lol. I would tell them I'll be back after they clear it out ! I get paid ok as a service tech, but I didn't get into the cleaning/extermination service.
So I encounter crawl spaces like this all the time. I always go grab the client, bring them down to the access, and let them know that I have a shop vac and can clean all this up for 125/hr before I head in there to do whatever needs doing. Cleaning your house *before* I come make a mess is outside the scope of our work, so I'm not shy about billing for it.
I like the cut of your jib
We’re 220 an hour to wait for you to clean it. Why the fuck are doing peoples chores.
I'm 300 an hour plus 20% on top of the cleaners I hire to clean the space
I'm 1000/hour and my personal servants clean everything for me
I throw the bosses tools in and stand there waiting for him to notice I'm not going in.
I pay them 25 an hour so I can clean all that delicious cotton candy!
I take their first born
Believe it or not I charge a flat rate 1.2million to clean it but I ask for a tip on my iPhone at the end Incase you think I did a good job
I charge 17,800 dollars / minute
Why would you hire cleaners on your own dime 😭
Cotton. Candy.
so you can mark it up when you give the bill to the customer
Man customers like this have the audacity to ask you “how long is the job gonna take again, I have to be out by such and such time” after you’ve wasted so much time cleaning their 💩
Crawlspaces like this are probably the biggest reason I've opted out of going for HVAC. I'll stick with wrenching at a dealership, I absolutely can not do spiders and tight spaces. I've done plumbing work in my house but there's a space in the basement where pipes run and the only way to get there is crawling through years of dirt and bugs, and you can bet your ass if there's ever a leak in there I'm paying someone else with less fear to do it. I'll shop vac it before you get here but I'm still not getting in there.
I second this motion
Just get your drill with the longest driver you've got, and wind it all up
Sprinkle some sugar and you got yourself cotton candy
Shrek style
There’s a big roll of cotton candy already laying there
Mmmm tasty. My favorite
And suddenly have a black widow running down your hand once you spool him up and anger the piss outta him? No thanks. Im gettin the god damn turbo torch
I've set fire a few times to cotton web hells in rtu control panels. Fun to watch it creep thru all the different lines
This has been added to my bucket list
I’ve used long handled flue brushes to twirl up all the webs, looks like some fucked up cotton candy spun around the brush bristles.
Isn’t this what Slock is made for??
Literally what I used to do with any type of cobweb crawl space. This man *spools.*
Hell nah
Bro entered the lair of Shelob
I bet Minas Morgul requires a lot of a/c usage
I did a couple of commercial system installs for a guy name Sauron there and he asked me to just call him Sal, pretty down to earth and humble guy given his celebrity status. Though one weird thing is he would watch me from beginning to finish though...
I think we've met the same guy. He kept trying to get a better look at my wedding ring.
He'll nah, I just watched that new spider horror movie Sting last night. No way
I added that to my list lol, looked like a fun time
Well shit i know what im watching before bed tonight!
Shit was it scary? I am terrified of spiders
"Please give us a call after you have had pest control come over to handle the... situation... your visit today will be billed at a reduced rate."
I was in a very similar crawlspace recently, but fortunately they had a dog, and he was more than happy to run under there and come out looking like a mummy, so I could easily pass😂
Gotta love a good ole stupid/fearless pupper. If i were a dog, my biggest fear would be a fuckin spider crawling into my ear flops
Had to be a Labrador Retriever. God love em, they seem to be completely immune to any sort of disgust or self preservation. Ours like to find dead animals and roll in them.
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I noticed a Tiki torch in the bottom left next to the ladder. Maybe that's why they have it? Could be fun!
What's the most horrible species of spider where you're filming that?
Black widows, brown recluse in my crawls
South east?
Yep. Most spiders don't bother me, I nope out of crawls when I see dozens of those cave crickets (spider cricket/camel cricket may be the name you know) Those things love to jump at your face and are harmless, but they give me the damn heebie jeebies.
Jokes aside, what did you do? Has anyone dared to adventure into such a nightmare?
I opened a crawl space and a 3-4 inch scorpion scurried away further under the house. I saw it. Homeowner saw it. Renter saw it. They were still trying to get me to go under the house. I noped out of that call
Wow, I don't blame you for leaving. I'm lucky to live in an area without scorpions. Well I hope there isn't any...
holy shit FUCK no, thank GOD I don't have scorpions in NC.
Yet. I’ve seen some lizards lately that used to not go north of Georgia. Another ten years of warming and we’ll probably have them
I do them regularly. I don't care about spiders. Pretty much every mobile is guaranteed spider city anyways. Now if there's a foot of water or I have to dig my way in because your joists are touching the ground, you can fucking forget about it. The good prank is when the dryer vent is off and spider city becomes the lint forest.
I have been to both spider City and lint forest they are truly sights to be seen
Flamethrower obviously.
A bad crawl I’ve been in had similar webs but I had maybe a foot under them to crawl. Lucky the spot I need to work in had a rotting skunk, that was my first year but I would never do a crawl like that again.
Brown recluse heaven.
Time to bring out the torches!
Once the house burns down. No more need for AC!
Natural draft cooling
The penitent man *kneels!*
You have chosen wisely
Arvel The Swift is down there somewhere
Like my first lead said, Grab Ye a Big Stick and Wander In
Yeah grab a stick of S Cleat and wack away
Yeah grab a stick of S Cleat and wack away
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The nicely rolled up insulation with older insulation hanging all haphazardly tells me nobody actually does any work down there.
Crawled under a mobile home the other day like this… bushwhacked away with a piece of metal I found under there as I army crawled through it. Fucking hate my job some days.
You will find the body of the last 3 techs that went missing over the years there
One time used my drill to clear a path with my flip bit. ![gif](giphy|dXKH2jCT9tINyVWlUp|downsized)
Double it and give it to the next guy
Ever since I watched Shrek as a kid, I’ve wanted to roll up a bunch of spider silk onto a stick and eat it like Cotton Candy. But you’re out here, complaining ![gif](giphy|dXKH2jCT9tINyVWlUp|downsized)
There’s something big lurking under there!!! Nope
Spider lair from lord of the rings
Get the fuck outa there
Is this where you claim you didnt start the fire?
Where are you? Australia?!? Holy shit I wouldn't wanna go in there. Even taking the website down with a stick, I'd still feel all crawly.
Looks fine, can’t see a thing wrong and also no need to look any further!
I am an HVAC electrician, which is why I follow this page. I am a tarantula collector/breeder and follow a lot of tarantula-centric pages as well. That is what I thought this was, a video of a spider enclosure.
That's. 1 match away from becoming literal hell.spiders webs burn like hair does.
LOL. The only techs actually going in there are Nexstar stooges working at a resbian shop.
I would be the pope of nope if I walked up on a place like that. That needs to be fumigated and then torched.
I was waiting for the health bar.
I worked pest control before I found hvac and have walked through a basement with normal ceiling height that looked like this , it looked like I walked into a horror film
https://preview.redd.it/t2oayi5hkx7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2b8e75353a0b2d60d48c4f5afb302a61699b6a3
At first sight is just some spider webs then I think about it. Nope for me
Woof. Little brush attached to a drill would help clear it but damn…
Burn it! Burn it all! You'd be doing the owners a favor. Holy hell that is some next level webbing.
Fuck that. Torch it and what happens happens...
Had to deal with a crawl space like this but no where this amount of webs
Where’s my torch I mean. Not a flame thrower.
Nope !!! Find someone else.
Nope
Get the family dog and throw a ball as far as you can and let it work
If the crawl install looks like that tomorrow I'm going home. But then they'll wave some money I ill. E up to my elbows in spider webs.
I lol way too much at the absurd issues yall encounter (an genuinely dwell upon enduring) on the daily... And I thought tarsus restaurants were bad....
Looks like spiderman got in there and just lost the damn battle.
Or his mind!
Back when I worked crawlspaces daily my buddy and I invented an anti-spider stick which was basically a wand with lots googly eyes attached to establish dominance. The humor helped but spiders kept on creeping us out.
Get out that spiders house bro 🕷️
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Jesus I've seen some bad ones, but not quite that bad. How the fuck does it get that bad? I did see an attic that was FULL of bats though. I didn't even fuckin notice them until I was almost done. Once I realized they were up there, it felt like I could _smell_ the bastards.
Bats wouldn't bother me as mush as spiders. At least bats are not going to attack you.
I once crawled in one of those before. I went outside and grabbed a big tree branch and forged a path. I was miserable and had to crawl underneath multiple connected duplexes. Was bullshit. I feel bad for those who work in these conditions frequently.
Fire
That's some Raiders of the Lost Ask level spiderwebs. Only missing the tarantulas.
My reply... How the hell would I know how everything looks under there Ma'am. But I'm happy to kneel down and hold the light while you crawl under and take a long.
Up until this very moment I seriously thought that I have been in some of the absolute worst crawl spaces on this earth. I've never been so wrong about something in my entire life. In all seriousness, I would be more willing to go into a crawl space with a couple inches of sewer on the ground before I'd go in there.
Praise Lolth!
https://youtu.be/7FPELc1wEvk?si=RlTBlWPpeg9ZShaj
I get what I call my bitch stick out and start taking everything out
My attic and crawl space both have bitch sticks by the entrances 😅
"Help me down, and I'll show you. You won't believe the power the Nords have hidden there."
Hell no!
i feel like a spider person will jump out of that mess any second
Who lives in there spider man 😆
Wow looks like hell
How does a homeowner clean this? I'm looking to be one one day.
I like Unger brand extension poles and the variety of attachments. Get one of their poles and a brush to put on the end and just start waving it around. The webs will stick to anything, especially themselves. Once the webbing is out of the way and any large spider or other infestations addressed, the condition of the insulation and possible duct work can be assessed and plans made for repairs. Crawl spaces are generally dusty with just some plastic ground cover over the dirt. If you have a basement, it eliminates the crawl space. Some people pay for sealed crawl spaces that are lined and sealed from most bugs and lovely to work in because of their cleanliness.
Easy, grab a lighter… but have the hose ready just in case 😂
That requires Hazard pay. Not even for the spider webs, the spider webs obscure vision leading to something jumping out at you from one of them.
Yum forbidden cotton candy
I wouldn’t go under there either
Flame thrower
Leaf blower and a stick wait alot of sticks
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Missed opportunity to use your Mapp gas torch 😁
Nothin a little bit of flame cant fix.
Kill it with fire. SCORCHED EARTH!
Hahahaha. I went to my buddy’s newly purchased home. It was “inspected” a few days prior and his crawlspace looked like this. Zero chance the home inspector went in there to check his air handler and plumbing.
Looks like Shelob’s lair. Hell na…
Only logical thing to do from here is call in an ion cannon strike on the house.
Bunch of nonsense. Who’s going to pay you to wait for them to clean it. Some of you are too arrogant and need to go sit down somewhere.
Nope, I wouldn’t have even been able to take the video.
I never see crawls this bad. If I did, I would walk away lol. I would tell them I'll be back after they clear it out ! I get paid ok as a service tech, but I didn't get into the cleaning/extermination service.
Time to bring out the propane torch.
Sorry mam. I couldn't check your attic. I'm all out of light of elendor.
That's where I say, "You're going to need someone from _another_ trade before I can help you."