Mike Lamb Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Is it protocol to fasten a compressor to the support bracket? One of these is close to falling off. Click to Enlarge 70 KB Click to Enlarge 65.94 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Apart from seismic requirements, if the outdoor sections are bolted to the angle iron, I don't see any issue. What's holding up the other end of the angle iron? Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted April 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The compressors are free standing. No fasteners. The corner iron is attached to the foundation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I can't imagine why it would be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Maybe if it was high enough to fall on something other than your toe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 See this a lot in northern Kentucky. Sometimes it's fastened to the pipe, sometimes not. At least you don't have to worry about the ground settling out from under it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 ...around here metal thieves haul those units away for salvage. A local metalworks shop offers steel "cages" to protect them. I guess bolting down might deter a thief, just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim5055 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 ...around here metal thieves haul those units away for salvage. A local metalworks shop offers steel "cages" to protect them. I guess bolting down might deter a thief, just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Wow, I didn't know crime was that bad up Athens way. When we lived in ATL we looked up your way as God's country...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Rocking chair thefts.....proof civilization is crumbling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Rocking chair thefts.....proof civilization is crumbling. Amen to that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 .... just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Tell me you made that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADAIR Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 .... just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Tell me you made that up. not uncommon in many classless urban areas kids will be kids, think relocation is an art form & drunk rednecks believe yard furnishing look just as good if not better "at my house"...got pickup http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/pol ... b2370.html as far as anchoring condensing units all ground and rooftop units are required to be secured in tx windstorm areas i advise all as a general precaution due to the upsurge in theft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 We had two wooden rockers removed from our front porch not long ago. A few days later while talking to some neighbors one of them said he was driving home and watched a yard guy with mowers on a trailer going down the street with two rockers sitting in the trailer. We joke that we live in our own "Mayberry", but thugs are everywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Jim, the hills are fairly short and close together here, so roadways, often state highways, can come pretty close to dwellings, so the stop and grab operators can work quickly. So those chairs look like roadside inmates shackled together on some porches. .... just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Tell me you made that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted April 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 ...around here metal thieves haul those units away for salvage. A local metalworks shop offers steel "cages" to protect them. I guess bolting down might deter a thief, just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. . When I was young I knew some miscreants who took a canoe off the top of a car in the early AM, carried it a couple blocks and put it on someone's front porch. In Chicago you got to lock those canoes down. I don't recall these delinquents ever stealing a rocking chair. BTW. I read the state of Illinois is #1 in insurance claims for theft of precious metals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Scott, you gotta listen when the wife wants porch furniture. There is always a way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmettoinspect Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 ...around here metal thieves haul those units away for salvage. A local metalworks shop offers steel "cages" to protect them. I guess bolting down might deter a thief, just as porch rockers are often tethered to cables fastened to the house. Jim, They use them around here too! Had to laugh when I saw these. This is a decent area also. New construction so that's probably why it was targeted. Builder told me it wasn't happing again! Kinda makes for a bad look when the realtor is showing the property though. Click to Enlarge 128.1 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 How does the serviceman get in? Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmettoinspect Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 How does the serviceman get in? Marc There's a lock hasp on the bottom of the cage with the latch imbedded in the concrete between the units and the house. The cages hinge on the other side. Once unlocked, you just flip them out the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 This was an insane deal here until the authorities forced the scrappers to refuse copper coil unless there was a job work order, paper trail, or some similar proof of chain of ownership. Stopped overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspector57 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 This was an insane deal here until the authorities forced the scrappers to refuse copper coil unless there was a job work order, paper trail, or some similar proof of chain of ownership. Stopped overnight. Similar deal here, scrap yards require photo id and the paper trail tends to dry up the crack heads easy money stream. It is rare that I see a stolen condensing unit now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim5055 Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Darn iPad resent post when I came into the site....... Sorry for double post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmettoinspect Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 You have to have a permit and business license to scrap metal around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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