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A long time ago, I was doing a hydronics seminar somewhere in Virginia, around D.C. A young guy came up to me during the first break and introduced himself as Dan Foley. ...

I had gotten back from a road trip and was going over some old issues of Newsday when I spotted his obituary. It sent me spinning back a bunch of years and the memories h...

The steam seminar was to be in North Carolina, which was strange enough, that being the state where most folks only know how to say, “Heat pump, please.” It was also to b...

If you are like most designers or installers, I would wager that you never read the installation manual for the piece of equipment that you design or install. If you do n...

There is a restaurant on the ground floor of a large residential building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that I’ve been servicing for about 15 years now. It’s a busy plac...

When I was young and working for the manufacturers’ rep on Long Island, I wanted to get some hands-on experience, so I went to the larger, family-owned fuel-oil dealers a...

On July 20, 1998, Modern Library put out a call to readers, asking them to vote on what they thought were the 100 best novels written in the English language during the 2...

When Tony Fadell of iPod fame came up with the idea of the Nest thermostat it made me smile. I had read an interview with him in a business magazine. He explained how he ...

"A" Dimension= distance water will rise in the drip at the end ofthe steam main, when there IS left-over steam pressure at the drip. AAV = automatic air vent (UK) ABS = A...

About a half-hour south of Albany on the New York State Thruway, just as the Catskill Mountains get their backs way up, there's an exit sign that states, simply, "Catskil...