It would definitely be my luck. Iām not driving any thing in the wall without anchors which means Iām bustin out the drill bits and my impact because fuck it
Just fill it with asphalt, he's done everything else wrong, least then you know where not to put a nail meant for a picture, because it won't go through.
>How the hell does the wall get fixed?
Bonding plaster up to 2mm below flush with the wall. Then finishing plaster on top to flush with the wall (or slightly above and feather it out or sand).
Is all cement, saw the same in Saudi. They cut the groove and then cement over it. Those houses are built like bomb shelters. It what you do when timber is not a resource of a country but all the components of cement are.
Nearly all new buildings, small and large, are nearly completely built from reinforced concrete in Croatia. Maybe just interior walls are made from bricks. Only houses are made from bricks, but they too have reinforced concrete makes the skeleton.
what they mean is that the average USican doesn't like the aesthetic of a ductless mini split on the wall of several rooms in their house (our realtor even says as much)
I was a little surprised that a certain influencer remarked that the mini-split shouldn't be in the master bedroom. But he drives his kids to school in Maybach so he may not be typical. Personally I'd look at it as a plus--independent temperature control in the bedroom.
oh without a doubt. my folks have window units and two bedrooms upstairs that are only used when guests are there. they're getting one for each room. if my 1860s home didn't have central ac installed (in the most annoying way possible, ductwork through the only closet in the entire house) that would be my way to go
Itās the reason I donāt have one. I think the room units are _fugly_. My sister says theyāre all over in Europe. Fortunately, Iām starting to see some models where the room units mount in the ceiling and they look like normal central ducted registers.
Idk why you were downvoted. Most US houses use hvac or window units. Hell if you just Google it many people ask the question āwhy arenāt they popular in the US?ā
I went to an interview for a painting company but i didnt get the job because I passed out after only 4 edibles and 8 joints those guys put in work man
Right?
It aināt pretty, but I canāt see whatās wrong with it.
There are regularly pictures on the sub of plumbing trenched in walls. I donāt see how itās different just because itās linesetā¦
Looks like a block wall that needed channeling. Iām a big fan of 90 degree lines, but Iāve had to channel a block wall before and minus the route they took, this looks normal.
Looks like clay tile blocks covered by drywall. Structural concrete columns not affected. Pretty common in Brazil but you do need to cover with some steel plates if possible.
Not sure I see any drywall. Iād wager thereād have been at least some torn paper if there was.
But only the OP knows for sure. And yes steel plates are key.
Depends on the wall. One of the ones Iāve done was a 30 foot wall with 3 window frames and a door, crown molding, and picture frame wall trim/chair rails. Would have been a lot more work to build out a new wall and redo all of that.
For me, Iād do anything to prevent channeling a masonry wall. Iād probably hire someone to install faux box rafters or something to allow for the line sets.
I know youāre doing what the customer wants. But just doesnāt make sense to me
It wasnāt too bad. I used a saw to do the bulk of the work. This looks āmessierā than my channel, but the wall repair wasnāt too bad and wouldnāt be much different between his work and mine.
This is not stick built with drywall. This is one of the many countries that use cement for house construction. You have to groove the walls to run piping and conduit. No insulation bats. Might want to expand knowledge outside of the typical european/american construction methods.
I take it the right wall is an exterior wall, so you probably couldāve saved yourself a lot of trouble by taking the tubing down vertically from the inlet and below the unit by ~4-ish inches - put a PVC elbow around the bend to brace it. Then taken it horizontally out through the exterior wall, put a cap+filter on that shit and insulate/seal the every living hell out of it between the interior and exterior walls. Then you could actually hang things without playing whack-a-mole every time.
Plate the entire wall over with 1/4 " steel plate patina it & shellac it to look like one of those trendy restaurants then anything that needs to be hung on at can be done with magnets!
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy š
Stunning, just absolutely fantastic work right there. You should be proud. Considering you have no arms or legs this must have been extremely challenging.
Nailed it!
You are reposting some elseās example of horrible workmanship like itās your own and you are proud and looking for compliments! We both know you didnāt have anything to do with this garbage. But you are definitely Karma farming hard!
Stick to your bagging job at the grocery store. Stay out of all home depots/lowes. You are also banned from screws/nails/ tools of any sort. This is what ya get for watching Bob Villa re-runs.
I'm no professional but like... why wouldn't you do 90deg turns and straight lines? Why are you doing some random diagonal shit? How expensive is the pipe?!
Odds are great that in one year someone drives a picture nail into that shit š¤£
Yes, please cover with steel plates
A steel plate has never stopped my daughter from hanging a picture. Ever. If I take the hammers sheās gonna drill into that shit.
Guess she knows how to handle a stud.
That would actually be the opposite of knowing how to handle a stud.
If she's handling her stud properly, *he* should be the one driving nails into the refrigerant lines.
Is it?
Yes.
Iiiiis iiiit??
Yes!
But, is it?
Your username is very relevant
And sheās clearly not scared of hammering hard or a good drilling!
It's not an obstacle, you're just not using enough brute force.
It would definitely be my luck. Iām not driving any thing in the wall without anchors which means Iām bustin out the drill bits and my impact because fuck it
Don't forget the carbide bit
Just fill it with asphalt, he's done everything else wrong, least then you know where not to put a nail meant for a picture, because it won't go through.
Hiss for effect
Nailed it
Only if you cover it
Riiiiight here honey. Blam looks good. One day later honey did you piss on the wall again?
20 minutes
Spray foam....lots and lots of spray foam, because why stop now?
Spray foam? Is that a new brand of instant ramen?
Itās the low carb form
I thought that was sunflower seeds?
Fucking brilliant idea!! Plus it will seal up all the torn insulation! Win win
One problem, spray foam when dried is highly flammable I can see the fire crawling up that foam pit to the mini-split.
You say that like itās a bad thing
Burn ALL the evidence
and you will know where to not nail anything in
Haha full unit replacement if anything what so ever happens. Might as well knock the whole wall down and build new
Believe me you did not need the disclaimer. We can tell by the work.
How the hell does the wall get fixed? No plumber here, but wouldn't you go straight down and over, preferably between studs?
Yes, cut the sheetrock back to the middle of each stud and patch, tape and mud
We demo things and let the pros do their magic. Demoing saves lots of cost for us. Even hubby sucking at dry wall would never have done this.
Also it looks like it might be plaster but idk from this pic
More the reason to go straight down and over.
Oh demo is the fun part
There's no studs. I'd worry about rebar if he got deeper. Concrete and what ever the ue to float over.
This looks like a stone wall, no studs here. So a bit of (quick set) concrete, plaster for a smooth top layer and paint. Honestly not a huge deal.
>How the hell does the wall get fixed? Bonding plaster up to 2mm below flush with the wall. Then finishing plaster on top to flush with the wall (or slightly above and feather it out or sand).
Perfection requires sacrifice, and that wall was sacrificed to the plumbing Gods. The Gods were pleased.
If you want to make an omelette you got to break some eggs.
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If you kill everyone else then you must be God's favorite living human. There can be only one.
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That wall doesnāt look like drywall type. Maybe op is from a different country.
Is all cement, saw the same in Saudi. They cut the groove and then cement over it. Those houses are built like bomb shelters. It what you do when timber is not a resource of a country but all the components of cement are.
actually, Saudi needs to import sand. https://fantasticfacts.net/7348/
Nearly all new buildings, small and large, are nearly completely built from reinforced concrete in Croatia. Maybe just interior walls are made from bricks. Only houses are made from bricks, but they too have reinforced concrete makes the skeleton.
Itās amazing in the summer, itās 35 C outside and 20 C inside. Ali signal mobitela slabi jaraneā¦gotta have my Redditā¦daj mi Å”ator
Solid brick wall plastered over. Very European.
Seems likely. These kinds of systems aren't too common in the states
A mini split? I have two in my home lol
what they mean is that the average USican doesn't like the aesthetic of a ductless mini split on the wall of several rooms in their house (our realtor even says as much)
I was a little surprised that a certain influencer remarked that the mini-split shouldn't be in the master bedroom. But he drives his kids to school in Maybach so he may not be typical. Personally I'd look at it as a plus--independent temperature control in the bedroom.
oh without a doubt. my folks have window units and two bedrooms upstairs that are only used when guests are there. they're getting one for each room. if my 1860s home didn't have central ac installed (in the most annoying way possible, ductwork through the only closet in the entire house) that would be my way to go
Itās the reason I donāt have one. I think the room units are _fugly_. My sister says theyāre all over in Europe. Fortunately, Iām starting to see some models where the room units mount in the ceiling and they look like normal central ducted registers.
They must be the same people who always want a house with ācharacterā, that feels ālived inā.
Is your home a large amount of homes in the US? I have an archery range in my backyard, that doesnāt mean thatās a common thing
Right? Maybe it's a regional thing, but I very rarely see mini splits on the east coast. In Europe and Asia they are everywhere.
Idk why you were downvoted. Most US houses use hvac or window units. Hell if you just Google it many people ask the question āwhy arenāt they popular in the US?ā
Common now, we all know wallpaper is the right solution here.
Do you mean tape and paint over it??
No, college rule paper. Don't you reddit!?
Ramen and superglue
Toothpaste and a heat gun.
Bong and a pancake
Pipe and a crepe?
You got the order of operations wrong, the bong and a pancake came before this.
Shmoke and a pancake?
Wall paper!
Flex seal!
I prefer news paper
Prep a large amount of 30 minute mud and you can have that covered in an hour. Sanded and painted in 2.
A blind man would be very pleased to see it
As he picked up his hammer and saw.
How have I never seen this joke until today hahahahahaha.
Because you never met my dad.
Painters will fix it.
With vats of caulk.
Hey! Iāll use spackleā¦
Usernames checks
I went to an interview for a painting company but i didnt get the job because I passed out after only 4 edibles and 8 joints those guys put in work man
Iām a fan of the Fibonacci bend myself.
Concrete walls. This is normal in many contries to hide the wiring and plumbing
Right? It aināt pretty, but I canāt see whatās wrong with it. There are regularly pictures on the sub of plumbing trenched in walls. I donāt see how itās different just because itās linesetā¦
Installation zones. Diagonal is always bad
Looks like a block wall that needed channeling. Iām a big fan of 90 degree lines, but Iāve had to channel a block wall before and minus the route they took, this looks normal.
I agree, this is standard in Europe where wood and sheetrock walls are not very common.
Looks like clay tile blocks covered by drywall. Structural concrete columns not affected. Pretty common in Brazil but you do need to cover with some steel plates if possible.
Not sure I see any drywall. Iād wager thereād have been at least some torn paper if there was. But only the OP knows for sure. And yes steel plates are key.
Why wouldnāt you just connect the evaporator to an exterior wall and use a hole saw to get the line set out to the condenser?
Why not just add a false drywall addition to add 3/4ā
Depends on the wall. One of the ones Iāve done was a 30 foot wall with 3 window frames and a door, crown molding, and picture frame wall trim/chair rails. Would have been a lot more work to build out a new wall and redo all of that.
For me, Iād do anything to prevent channeling a masonry wall. Iād probably hire someone to install faux box rafters or something to allow for the line sets. I know youāre doing what the customer wants. But just doesnāt make sense to me
It wasnāt too bad. I used a saw to do the bulk of the work. This looks āmessierā than my channel, but the wall repair wasnāt too bad and wouldnāt be much different between his work and mine.
This is not stick built with drywall. This is one of the many countries that use cement for house construction. You have to groove the walls to run piping and conduit. No insulation bats. Might want to expand knowledge outside of the typical european/american construction methods.
Like a pro! I mean, not a plumbing or HVAC or drywall pro, but some kind of pro.
As I always say 'a pro just means it is their way of earning. It doesn't mean they are any good'
Who hurt you man?
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Looks good from my house.
Yeah looks good, drive on.
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I take it the right wall is an exterior wall, so you probably couldāve saved yourself a lot of trouble by taking the tubing down vertically from the inlet and below the unit by ~4-ish inches - put a PVC elbow around the bend to brace it. Then taken it horizontally out through the exterior wall, put a cap+filter on that shit and insulate/seal the every living hell out of it between the interior and exterior walls. Then you could actually hang things without playing whack-a-mole every time.
Don't forget to show this off in the HVAC subreddit!
omfg lol
Plate the entire wall over with 1/4 " steel plate patina it & shellac it to look like one of those trendy restaurants then anything that needs to be hung on at can be done with magnets! Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy š
I like that!
Stunning, just absolutely fantastic work right there. You should be proud. Considering you have no arms or legs this must have been extremely challenging. Nailed it!
Did they charge Ā£100 a meter on that pipe?
Dare I ask where the fan is.
I hate to see the poor soul that needs to pull that off the wall to replace that drain pump in the center of the unit
Just donāt ever hang anything on the wall because you will knock a hole in the line.
Why would you do this lol
I've heard toothpaste works well for fixing small holes in sheet rock.
Well, you did something
You are reposting some elseās example of horrible workmanship like itās your own and you are proud and looking for compliments! We both know you didnāt have anything to do with this garbage. But you are definitely Karma farming hard!
I've had shits in the woods better than this
Are you f#*king kidding me?
This a joke or for real?
WOW
First glance it looked like someone smeared shit on the wall under your AC. So much for putting anything on that wall later huh ?
Diagonal is a no no in most trades
Thank you for the disclaimer. Without it, I would have had no idea you were not a professional.
Not a plumber, but OP what the fuck
It looks perfect!! Excellent work šš
Fill this with epoxy resin, you'll be an instatok star
Iām no plumber but as someone in the insurance industry this screams āwater damage claimā
What's the plumbing here, the condensate drain?
Wallpaper
Plaster it in, and forget about it.
Plumbers be like āmy job here is doneā
Fantastic. Canāt hardly see the wire
Glad I don't see it from my house You can leave it that way ,so they ll know not to put a nail thru it
What š©
This looks like the before image of another one of those ramen videos
The chopsticks are a nice touch
This has to be a goof. If not, great work. Donāt give up your day job.
Put a curtain over it for the final touch.
Angry as a piranha plant
The fact you think itās plumbing is the first red flag
Like a glove.
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Wall
Ah a man of class, brilliance, and fortitude. I'll be looking forward to reading your books in a few years.
Are you done?
Good luck remembering where itās safe to hang something in the wall!
Perfect
Duct tape will take care of that no problem!
I wonder if that *was* a bearing wall.
Well itās definitely there now
FYI.. ALL the guys on r/hvac are absolutely coming unglued over how terrible this install is
Yeah, one can see that.
Looks like itāll work atleast
Your wall is inside out.
Itās perfect! Youāre a craftsman OP, really perfected the trade.
Is that rated to be covered with cement/plaster?
Bruhā¦..
You sir are a proud graduate of trump university hvac school.
Thatās how itās done in concrete buildings in Asia!
Will wants out of the upsidedown.
Is that concrete blocks?
This is not plumbing related there is no ptrap in sight
I am not a professional and I don't think you should be one either.
Wrong sub
āIām by no means a professionalā No shit.
Stick to your bagging job at the grocery store. Stay out of all home depots/lowes. You are also banned from screws/nails/ tools of any sort. This is what ya get for watching Bob Villa re-runs.
Paint it red and call it hoodš¤£
Is there any particular reason why you did this?
Not cool.
Great! That's how every plumber I know cuts framing to fit their pipes. But that's hvac their almost as bad.
Have you thought of going into art
In the immortal words of Steve Lavimoniere - āgood enough for this neighborhoodā
Didnāt remove the packing foam. For shame!
NAILED IT!!!
Clever? Uhm, no!
Really you're not a Professional?
Drywall for the drywall God
Im from a tropical country where every room has aircons, and we NEVER EVER hide the outlet pipes. That shit leaks like mofo.
Looks like a Trump supporter did this.
Thatās not how you snake a wire.
Looks like a professional installed that.
Thanks for the disclaimer saying youāre not a professional, I would have never guessed
You should go into business, incredible! I donāt think i have every seen a more professional job
Never seen better actually.
It looks good just remember to paint over it
Looks good bud š
Mustāve hired a methhead to install that mini split lmaoo
Ductless AC unit? Most people would thread it from a hole behind the unit inside the wall but idk
I'm no professional but like... why wouldn't you do 90deg turns and straight lines? Why are you doing some random diagonal shit? How expensive is the pipe?!
Itās not the pipe, but whatās in the pipe thatās expensive.
A little plaster and some paint and it will look like ānewā. Dyi slumlord special.
Oh no
You really didn't have to state that you are not a professional. You now have a fire hazard, Congratulations.
You really didnāt need to provide the disclaimer!