Skills and Knowledge To Start an HVAC Career

What Skills and Knowledge do you need to start an HVAC Career? AC Service Tech and HVAC school collaborate to give new HVAC applicants some top tips for starting out a fulfilling career in HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning).

Find Craig's channel here: @acservicetech

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[mrgreen]

One thing a lead man once told me was. even if you don't know what your doing you will always have a job if you just show up on time and are willing to work

[slevindroginuf]

I’ve been working in the Trade for Just over a year now.
In that time I was promoted from helper to installer and Lead Installer within that time.
Now I’m running Tech Calls and Doing very well.
My Father Taught me to work harder then the next man.
But I learned the Technical Trade from Awesome Guys Like These.
Thanks to both of you For Sharing your Knowledge and making my Job Easier to Learn…
God Bless you all

[alexrosales]

Starting school for Hvac this month, always worked in food business, really excited for a new career change. At 31 im super excited!

[hvactrevv]

Craig was on point when he says some dudes won’t show you everything because they want the raise or they don’t want you being better then them. I think that’s BS I think if everyone knows as much as possible then as a team everyone’s job is easier. But some guys don’t get it. I got Craig’s book and it helps a lot I recommend anyone in the trade to pick it up.

[SonsofIssac]

Did zero skill necessary, manual labor jobs that I hated my entire life. Had a guy come fix our furnace one winter and thought it looked like a cool job. Enrolled in a crappy diploma mill tech school. Got good grades but I didn’t learn anything.

Started my first HVAC job working for a commercial refrigeration company and enrolled in the school of hard knocks. 90% of everything I know is from real time screw ups and self education. These guys in the video played a huge role in that.

Been at it for 5 years now and I love every minute of it.

[BrendaMartinez-eetk]

Thank you for this information! I can't tell you how much this helps me in my career change. I'm a woman, 30 years old, coming from experience only in the medical field. This gives me such a clear understanding of EXACTLY what i need to work on before heading out in the field. I am only in the first quarter of HVAC school. I had a sense of helplessness and vague understanding of other skills and knowledge I needed to be a great field technician. Thank you. I can't say this enough.

[juant]

This two have joined forces. They ll be unstoppable.

[ibrahimjinaah]

"It does not matter how smart you are how smart people say you are it's more of a matter your desire to want to learn" 💯

[starhopper]

Really wonderful vid, gents. Thanks! I'm up there after 35+ years in the biomedical field but I find HVAC just fascinating, and you are dead spot on about the learning skill sets which are not taught in the schools today. I've swapped blower fans, cleaned evap and condenser coils, changed "tired" wiring, and diagnosed a/c capacitor faults. Kinda figured out how things worked on my RV A/C unit.

[alextejeida]

This video gave me enough confidence to place myself out there in the HVAC field.. I went to a School (that shall remain anonymous...) That put me in a huge amount of debt and that barely took the time to teach me in person they expected me to learn from online and when I did show up for class they spent half the class talking about about last night's game or something unrelated to learning about what we were supposed to.. honestly this channel has helped me alot in building my knowledge. Thank you! I've learned more from this channel than a year in "that" school.

[LiggityL]

At 5 minutes I loved what he said I didn’t grow up working with my hands with my dad. So as I got older I became a roofer learned the basics of tools. Now I’m in hvac training for a great company and want to be better overall with my hands and problem solving so even if it’s not hvac o do a lot more around my house and projects. Plus following you two.. I can’t lose !

[davehogan]

I’ve been in the field for 30 years, must say I love your videos!

I think it’s great you are not afraid to be the biggest nerd in HVAC, and I mean that as the highest compliment I can give!

A guy I grew up with and have been friends with for 45 years (new him since kindergarten) he is just like you, all he talks about is mechanical related topics lol
He was re-building dirt bikes when he was 10 years old.

Great job! I wish these videos were around back in 1991 when I started

[scott]

Please tell me there is a collaboration that is going to continue and be built upon by other experts in the field like yourselves to build one of the best trade schools in the world.

[heperez]

Very informative video. As one in the middle of a career change and in school, you guys bring class and a lot of knowledge to the HVAC/R community. Thank You!

[wagnergitirana]

You folks are the best. I’ve learned a lot about HVAC just by watching both of your videos and tutorials. I’m humbly and sincerely appreciative for what you folks do and teach. I can’t thank you all enough. Cheers from Arkansas/Texas region !!

[acservicetechchannel]

Bryan, I enjoyed the car ride and hearing your experiences and perspective!

[The-H-inADHD]

Great video and thanks for all y'all do for individuals and for the HVAC community as a whole. You two are two of the greatest and you both are two people in the industry I look up to the most! I love seeing y'all doing these videos together.

[channelcatchaser]

Two of the best channels on YouTube period.

[dylandrymond]

Thank you guys ....well done. I pray I can gain half the knowledge and experience you guys have before my career is done. I love the trade and you guys make it more fun. Thank you.

[BigDripLip]

It's so many people doing hvarc videos on the internet and YouTube and they have great information...but to all beginners my advice just stick to watching Craig and Brian until you grasp what's going on these two guys want you to learn