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Service Is Never Easy
We live in Bethpage, NY, a suburban Long Island town, known for the now-gone Grumman (maker of fine canoes and lunar landing modules) and a golf course that breaks hearts...
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Good Help Is Hard To Find
My neighbor, Tony, loves his house. We live in a low-crime neighborhood on Long Island but Tony is always on guard against miscreants.
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I Can See Clearly Now
Five years ago, I had cataract surgery. I had no idea that I needed cataract surgery because I thought what I was seeing was normal.
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The Magic of the Simple Air Vent
I recently came across the December 1924 issue of Popular Science magazine. Reading stuff like that always makes me feel like I have a time machine.
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What You Have to Do to Win Their Business
I recently posed this question to The Wallies, they being contractors who post nearly every day on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com: If a new wholesaler moved into your town, what...
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So Easy To Blame The Boiler
A homeowner posted a question on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com about a drumroll sound that was coming from his brand-new steam boiler.
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Seeing The World In A Different Way
I was listening to James Trane the other day. He was speaking from Chicago in 1902, telling me that his system of steam heating using small pots of mercury was the best...
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Noise or Music?
In 1992, I self-published a thick book I called, "The Lost Art of Steam Heating." I did this because I could not get a publisher interested in something that few,...
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If I Knew Then
I didn’t know then that you’re not supposed to hold a baby over your head and bounce her around.
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The Case for Radiator Covers
In March 2010, a nine-month-old boy rolled off his sister’s bed in Jersey City, New Jersey, and got stuck between the bed and a cast-iron, steam radiator that was as...
