Wes Davis
Company name: Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA)
Position: Technical Services Director

Wes Davis serves as the Technical Services Director for ACCA. He manages the development and maintenance of ACCA’s American national standards and technical manuals. He oversees HVACR education and supervises Quality-Assured contractor accreditation.  He oversees the representation of HVAC contractor interests in the model code development process. He directs responses to ACCA member contractor inquiries, as well as those from consumers and code enforcement officials. Wes was a NATE-certified technician and a licensed South Carolina HVAC contractor. He also wrote Bob’s House, and he serves on ASHRAE technical committees and the RESNET’s Standards Management Board.

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Don’t Squeeze a Radiant Barrier
You are probably all familiar with radiant barriers. Sometimes, it's thin foil draped under the roof deck. Other times, it's used on the inside of stud walls or over furring strips before the drywall goes up, and there is even plywood with a radiant barrier attached to one side that is used for roof decking. […]
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Do You Replace the Contactor and Capacitor With a New Compressor?
Replacing a compressor is expensive, time-consuming, and physically taxing. If we are replacing a compressor, I want us to be doggone sure we aren't going to be dealing with the same thing again, and this often includes a shiny new contactor and capacitor (on single-phase units). There are a few schools of thought on this […]
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3 Bad Techs Who Don’t Know It
First, let's state the obvious and clear the air a bit. The photo above is SUPER CHEESY! But this story is about three bad techs who don't know it, so a photo of three models clearly posing in clean clothes makes as good a proxy for a bad tech as anything else. First off, I'm not […]
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