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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.
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Where are our apprenticeships?
When I went to work for the rep in 1970, my apprenticeship consisted of reading product catalogs, any old books I could find, listening to old men tell stories, prowl...
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Will Americans go for the Chop-Cloc?
That was my first thought when I got a Google Alert about this new product coming out of Scotland and heading for England.
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The need to manage water
The power of water.
