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    Dead Men Tips

    Published 6/21/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Educational Opportunities

    My long-gone friend and mentor “Professor” Fremont Lobbestael of Ann Arbor, Michigan once told me about how things were when he first got started.

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    What's In The Way?

    Published 6/6/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Troubled Heating Systems

    In the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, which snuggles into the center of the state, you will find Mount Saint James, and upon that steep hill you will find The College...

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    Service Is Never Easy

    Published 5/13/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

    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

    Published 5/5/22 | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

    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

    Published 4/12/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, For Homeowners, Darn-Good Stories, Educational Opportunities

    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

    Published 4/6/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Educational Opportunities, Troubled Heating Systems

    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

    Published 3/30/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Educational Opportunities

    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

    Published 2/22/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, For Homeowners, Troubled Heating Systems

    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

    Published 2/15/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Educational Opportunities

    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?

    Published 1/10/22 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Troubled Heating Systems

    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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