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Sludge, Scale and Bouncing Boilers
Clogging up heating surfaces is sort of like having all the traffic lights in your town turn red at the same time, and then stay red. Most movement just stops.
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Frugal Tools
Who doesn’t like to talk about tools? I asked a bunch of my friends about the tools that live on in sweet memory as frugal tools — tools that were...
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This Is What It Sounds Like When The Doves Cry
Someone new to HeatingHelp.com posted this question on The Wall.
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Learning From History
We’ve come a long way since the days of gravity-hot-water heating. The physics haven’t changed a bit, but the systems sure have.
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PROcrastination
We’re only human, and most humans like to put off things until they absolutely have to be done. I asked some heating professionals what they’ve been procrastinating about lately.
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What's Not In Stock?
I asked a bunch of heating contractor friends what was missing from their wholesaler’s stock and how they felt about that.
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Your Body Is A Radiator
Ever been to Ocean City, Maryland? It’s a summertime wonderland, and I was lucky enough years ago to get hired to do a seminar on hydronic radiant heating for a...
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What Is Heat?
Before I retired in 2016, I’d get a lot of calls from lawyers who wanted to hire me to be an expert witness at a trial.
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How Frank and John Taught Me To See
In 1989, when I was thinking about writing a book called, “The Lost Art of Steam Heating,” I went to see a young engineer named Frank Gerety.
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Nearly Famous Heating Quotes
Gil Carlson, who was the first person to come up with many of the hydronic concepts we take for granted today, was also my teacher.
