It was 60 and crappy today and all the corporate stores had a/c on controlled by central command. Come on, put a thermostat in every store and let it regulate the temp.
What's with Home Depot's HVAC system in the stores?
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Probably not the temp you're uncomfortable with.Huge rooftop units that are not staged correctly sound like the issue.Mild temps along with high humidity are a disaster for big box store A/C systems.The compressor doesn't run long enough to remove the humidity,making you feel balmy.
gusherb
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Another big issue with commercial spaces being clammy is many of these systems don't have economizers but just have outside air dampers that the contractors set to full open. Makes for a terribly clammy environment in any weather when they do that, many times the systems can't even keep up on warm days. Terribly cheap way of doing things. The older places most of the time don't have this issue because those dampers aren't set to wide open or they're actually using economizers like they should be.
HVAC at Walmart, direct fron dreck in Bentonville!
I'd heard our heat & a/c is controlled by our home office which explains why there are areas in my store than are dreadfully hot--the sweat pours right off of my while I work, among those complaining about the heat, to places painfully cold--such as the back of the store in the hallway where some of our lockers are...
Seems we might have similar equipment that you say are at Lowe's & Home Depot, and why there is that inconsistency, & the interior climate's unevenness...
(Well, need I say more? I can't think of much else, other than this, at the moment...)
-- Dave
I'd heard our heat & a/c is controlled by our home office which explains why there are areas in my store than are dreadfully hot--the sweat pours right off of my while I work, among those complaining about the heat, to places painfully cold--such as the back of the store in the hallway where some of our lockers are...
Seems we might have similar equipment that you say are at Lowe's & Home Depot, and why there is that inconsistency, & the interior climate's unevenness...
(Well, need I say more? I can't think of much else, other than this, at the moment...)
-- Dave
gusherb
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These are the giant round diffusers in the Menards that occupies a former Zayres. In the second picture on the left you can see the fairly new BAC cooling tower they put in when they replaced the chiller system. I'm actually impressed they decided to keep the chilled water system instead of replacing it with RTU's like Kmart did some years back. The system works very well too, I could hear air rushing out of each diffuser and the store was quite chilly on the 90 degree muggy as hell day we had today. I really wanna see what the ductwork and air handler looks like, I think there is only one and it must be a behemoth serving that huge ductwork and 12 of those huge diffusers. You can really hear the air roaring out of them on the side of the store where the air handler is.
"What's Gnawing At Me!"
OK, flashback time:
That dropped ceiling, with the huge round vents, and other appendages such as speakers, fire alarms, sprinkler heads, etc.
Not to mention those banks of florescent bulbs I drew pictures of, in my youth, replicating certain restaurants, stores and other places as such that I had been to...
(Somehow no detention, suspension, or any other form of punishment for doing in school, in lieu of classwork & productive studies--though I was sure the "Kick Me! sign on my back kid", regardless...)
Here's what was probably playing from my shopping cart infant seat view & earshot of what that pic up above reminds me of, as does my first Pat Boone LP purchase (had to find out about "Never Going Back" he sings at the end of The Beverly Hillbillies & its origin--hence it's at the end of Side 1, that I play after playing Side 2 first; this song ordinarily kicks off the album, but to me someone goofed, so I suitably after studying the track listing realized it IS meant to come on after the "Flip interlude"... Play Side 2's "Long Distance" kick-off, first!)...
-- Dave
OK, flashback time:
That dropped ceiling, with the huge round vents, and other appendages such as speakers, fire alarms, sprinkler heads, etc.
Not to mention those banks of florescent bulbs I drew pictures of, in my youth, replicating certain restaurants, stores and other places as such that I had been to...
(Somehow no detention, suspension, or any other form of punishment for doing in school, in lieu of classwork & productive studies--though I was sure the "Kick Me! sign on my back kid", regardless...)
Here's what was probably playing from my shopping cart infant seat view & earshot of what that pic up above reminds me of, as does my first Pat Boone LP purchase (had to find out about "Never Going Back" he sings at the end of The Beverly Hillbillies & its origin--hence it's at the end of Side 1, that I play after playing Side 2 first; this song ordinarily kicks off the album, but to me someone goofed, so I suitably after studying the track listing realized it IS meant to come on after the "Flip interlude"... Play Side 2's "Long Distance" kick-off, first!)...
-- Dave
