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Daniel Chapman
It’s an old house, built in 1900 and not very elegant. It’s a place you’d want to own if you had a big family, or if you wanted to rent...
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A Song for Christmas
He was alone when he died. The family had stepped out for a much-needed break and he chose that exact moment to pass on, as so many veterans do.
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Get Real — Get Hydronic Heat
This house is located in a hilly, wooded neighborhood near Silver Spring, Maryland. The house was a foreclosure and was even featured on one of those reality TV shows where...
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How A.S.H.R.A.E began
You may never have heard of Hugh J. Barron. He was an Irishman by birth and a steamfitter by trade. He served with the Fighting Sixty-ninth.
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Thermostat Wars
I had read an interview with him in a business magazine. He explained how he had retired from Apple with a moving van full of money and had set out...
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Mr. Schlemmer’s Tee
I was looking at a photograph of Crosley Field, a grand, Cincinnati, Ohio baseball stadium that burned to the ground in 1900.
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Cardboard apps
They’re forever checking their smart phones for this and that. Just the other day, someone asked me if I knew of a good app for sizing gas lines.
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Invisible Tenants
That’s how he described them.
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Chatting with Ara about radiators
I was having a conversation the other day with Mr. Ara Marcus Daniels, who is quite dead.
