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Close to Perfect?

I always enjoy looking at photos of their own work that Wallies post on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com. It’s not easy to do because The Wall is home to some of the sharpest ...

Published on 07/26/2023 3:32 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Magical Thinking

It was one of those days at HeatingHelp.com when the old guys had the floor. One of the regulars, a retired (and understandably crotchety) fella from Canada had this to s...

Published on 06/06/2023 11:08 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Times Change

Morris had me on the phone. It was 1974 and he was calling from Brooklyn, NY. I had a waxed handlebar mustache that year and my workmates at the manufacturers’ rep were c...

Published on 05/08/2023 2:30 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Who's Driving the Truck?

My first job in this business was to be a truck driver for an AC/Refrigeration wholesaler on Long Island. I didn’t have a car at the time, so I walked a mile to the branc...

Published on 05/03/2023 12:46 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Do You Miss the T87?

In 1885, when you could still buy a milk cow for $29.70, Albert Butz, a Swiss immigrant living in St. Paul, Minnesota, invented what he called the damper-flapper. He pate...

Published on 04/27/2023 2:09 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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What Did You Think Wouldn't Make It?

When we started HeatingHelp.com in 1997, the folks who built that first crude site told me we could have a links page. I asked what that was, and the young man doing the ...

Published on 04/27/2023 2:07 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Do Promotions Work?

The promotional offers show up every year and I always wonder whether they work? I suppose some do because the manufacturers repeat them. Buy a bunch of boilers, get a wi...

Published on 02/10/2023 10:43 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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A Homeowner's Challenge

I wrote a book for homeowners in 2003 and called it We Got Steam Heat (with apologies to The Pajama Game). I wrote that book because I had written another book 11 years e...

Published on 12/16/2022 12:21 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business