AIR CONDITIONERS
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Gearing up for air conditioning season BY STEPHEN BENNETT
OT WEATHER ISN’T HERE YET, BUT SOME FUEL OIL DEALERS went ahead and shifted some of their manpower to air conditioning installation projects weeks ago.
Conti Oil is installing air conditioning and heating for a 6,000-
square-foot space in a two-story brick commercial building that is being rehabilitated in downtown Barre, Vt., the same town where Conti Oil, founded in 1963 by Rinaldo Conti, is based. The job involves installation of Thermo Pride Premiere series equipment, specifically, three five-ton condensers on the roof and three air handlers above the ceiling. The system incorporates Honeywell thermostats that also control humidity in the space. “We started about three weeks ago,”Marc Conti, Rinaldo’s son
and now owner of Conti Oil,said in mid March.“We’re putting in a hydro-air system. I’d say we’ve got close to a month to go.” That would mean finishing up the project some time around mid April.“We’ve got all the main trunk lines up. Now we’re going to start running the branch circuits for the dif- fusers.We’ve got to seal the duct work, and insulate it.”
“It comes at a nice time,”Conti said of the project, because typ- ically in the oil business this is a slow period for the service department. Two technicians are working full-time on the job at the com-
mercial building, and two others pitch in when their work load allows,Conti said.“Any [oil heat] service call that comes up they can break away and go and do,”he said.“It’s worked out great.” The space in the commercial building is on the second floor. “Each air handler is going to have a hot water coil in it which
will be supplied off the hot water boiler [in the basement] and then we’re going to have the AC coil as well in each air handler,”Conti said.“So we’re going to do heating and air conditioning all through the same duct work.Normally we’ll just put in a straight AC sys-
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