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  • early america oil filed

    The man who first showed us how to burn oil

    Published 12/7/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, History Lesson

    He took me into their lab and showed me this new burner that they were developing for a modulating/condensing boiler.

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    Holohan’s New Memoir Delights and Inspires

    Published 11/30/15 | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories, Purely Personal, Case Study, Educational Opportunities

    In his 374-page memoir, What Hydronics Taught Holohan, Dan shares entertaining stories and knowledge he has gained throughout his career as a manufacturers' rep, writer, teacher, and founder of HeatingHelp.com.

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    A Maryland Hydronic Retrofit

    Published 11/20/15 by Erin Holohan Haskell | Categories: Case Study

    My husband, Andrew, and I purchased our home four years ago right before Thanksgiving. Like many young couples, we began our home search with a rather unrealistic list of criteria...

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    For what it's worth

    Published 11/18/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating

                I was working for the rep at the time, so I knocked on the owner's office door that summer and asked if some day, somehow, I might be able...

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    NYC's first (very large) hot-water-heating system?

    Published 11/18/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: History Lesson, Case Study

    It’s a small street, on the concrete bank of the East River. I was four years old and I remember this so well because John Jay Park is right across...

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    Black Cloud

    Published 10/14/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

    But my father wasn't a sportsman, and he never ate fish in his life, so I suppose that's why I never got to hold a rod and turn a reel...

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    Is that cheating?

    Published 10/14/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

                For instance, I met a contractor who would quote every job at least twenty percent higher than what any of his competitors put out there.  “It’s because I like...

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    The Engel Method

    Published 10/5/15 | Categories: History Lesson, Darn-Good Stories

    He said this after mentioning that if a shoe factory had been present in his vicinity at the time he invented PEX, we would perhaps today be walking around on...

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    What Many Contractors Have in Common

    Published 10/5/15 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating

    I love these people (some more than others) and their tenacity. There's not much they won't take on (for better or worse).

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    A Heated Exchange

    Published 8/23/15 | Categories: Darn-Good Stories, Troubled Heating Systems

    The call came in when I was young, eager, and paying close attention to the grown-ups.  I had been working for the manufacturers’ rep for a few years, where my...

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