Largest available outdoor unit pad?

[Innovate1]

They started on my HVAC install today. I asked for a pad larger than the unit to reduce the chance of hitting it with mowers and such. They said no problem. When I looked the unit was about 2" smaller on each side. I asked and they said that's the biggest pad available. It's 36" square. It's a 3 ton 15 seer unit. What do people use for a 5T unit that must be bigger? Is my only option to pour a bigger one?

 

[ducksface]

My compressor sits on a 48x48.
Look on the internet, then confront them with the links.
Mine is fiberglas and foam made to look like concrete.

 

[brewchief]

The units I deal with get taller as the tonnage increases for the most part but the footprint stays the same.

Largest pads we buy are 36x40, we use the plastic pads instead of the Styrofoam covered with concrete style.

If you decide to pour a pad and the unit you are installing doesn't have any type of plastic feet I suggest putting a rubber/cork pads under the unit to prevent direct contact between metal and the concrete, if you are ever going to have corrosion problems that would be a prime spot.

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[PWC Repair]

They might have said biggest available, but that probably meant available currently at the supply house. There are a jillion sizes of those things.

 

[Innovate1]

I will probably let it be for the winter and try to find something a bit bigger in the spring before mowing season. Shouldn't be too bad to lift the unit a little and slip a bigger pad in.

 

[Jackfre]

I think Diversitech sells the majority of them.

https://www.diversitech.com/en-US/section/type_id/21

 

[jjrbus]

I know why installers like pads, fast and cheap. I pour concrete and raise it up a few inches longer and wider than the unit so I don't bang into it with the mower and more importantly they leave space between the pad and the house and I am in there with a weed wacker, week after week, year after year. In Florida so mow all 12 months.

 

[thammel]

I pour my own pads. I go bananas and pour a column in the middle down to 36". I don't want my pads to ever go off level. I use plastic feet to hold the units up about 4-5".

 

[Zmann]

Railroad tie perimeter around existing pad they supplied for the win ;-)

ok just a thought lol

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Dealer is a dunce. Cladlite makes 50" x 53" x 3" pads...

Tommy