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A Trane rooftop unit, or RTU, is heating and cooling in one cabinet that sits on a curb over a building's ducts. Swapping one takes a crane, a lift plan and a crew on the roof, and this clip shows all three.
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The words "An average day in HVAC" sit over the opening drone shot, with the quotes doing the joking. A crane truck parked in the lot reaches up to the roof, where a tech in a hi-vis vest stands on top of the old unit and rigs it to the hook.
The old unit swings down and lands beside a stake-bed truck in the lot. Then the new Trane rises over the bare trees on straps, and techs in hard hats guide it by hand onto the curb, the metal frame that seals the unit to the opening in the roof.
Once it's down, six or more techs open the side panels and get to work on the electrical and control sections, with a run of white PVC pipe laid out on the stone beside them.
RTU stands for rooftop unit. It's a packaged system: the compressor, coils, blower and often a gas heat section live in one cabinet on the roof and feed the ducts through the curb underneath. Trane builds them for commercial buildings of every kind. Replacing one usually means a crane, a matching curb and a crew to wire, pipe and start it up.
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