Upgraded my AC Slab - Foam to Concrete

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Really off topic, but I took progress pics with camera so why not!

As always with owning a home, always something to improve. I got some new siding installed, and there was a casualty... Nail right in the center of the AC lineset



I took this opportunity to pour a concrete slab for it, instead of the at-grade stupid foam pad.

















When I got the AC installed in 2019



And now





The old pad was actually packing foam...



New lineset, It used to run along the "floor" of the attic and has been stepped on who knows how many times. Now it goes above the collars ties


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[IReallyLikePizza2]

From the other angle, but the camera got moved slightly so it doesn't line up 100%

 

[hdjdkkd]

Very impressive work! Thx for sharing!

 

[JNDATHP]

Ah, to be young again…

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Ah, to be young again…

Hate to break it to you, but even I am old now

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Now I have a solid concrete slab, I anchored the condenser. Makes a lot more storm/hurricane proof. Not my best work, but its all very solid

 

[Oneup]

Good job. I had a new AC unit replaced a few years ago, and when they installed the condenser, they placed one of those lighter cement pads on top of my large inground patio slab. I questioned them about the wind resistance using the lighter pad, instead of the existing thick concrete slab that the old unit sat on the last 20 years. They stated that it was code to mount it to the lighter pad, and not the slab. Go figure? I live in front row hurricane area. Sometimes I think codes are generated from some pencil pushing pinhead.

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

At least you can just anchor it all the way through that into the concrete

Yeah, lazy!