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    A Good Time to Check a Vacuum Steam System

    Published 4/11/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Troubled Heating Systems

    Why do we work on heating systems during the winter? Because we’re working on air-conditioning systems during the summer! Makes sense in a last-minute, panicky way, but it’s not the...

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    Saving History

    Published 3/30/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: History Lesson, Darn-Good Stories, Troubled Heating Systems, Case Study

    Step off of West 44th Street and into the lobby and look to your left. The artists (and we must call them that) who crafted that magnificent marble staircase were masters.

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    Ernie's Estimates

    Published 3/30/18 | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

    Ernie had been building his business like a man laying bricks. He believed in being methodical, and he believed in doing things right. You advertise. You return calls promptly.

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    Too Many Choices?

    Published 3/22/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating, Darn-Good Stories

    It was time to redo the kitchen. When we did the dormer 25 years ago, the plumber ran the copper tubing across the kitchen ceiling and over to new upstairs bathroom.

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    Different Trade, Same Story

    Published 3/22/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating

    Carl’s nephew, Mark, had just graduated from high school and was working as Carl’s helper for the summer.

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    The Right Tool for the Job

    Published 3/15/18 by Dan Foley | Categories: Troubled Heating Systems, Case Study

    You know the feeling. You are in a tight crawlspace with a 20-foot crawl to the hatch.

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    My Tenderfoot Years

    Published 2/27/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Darn-Good Stories

    I was an 11-year-old, Tenderfoot Boy Scout, spending a weekend at my first Jamboree. It was just a few miles from where we lived on Long Island, not off in...

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    The Ouch Factor

    Published 2/27/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Darn-Good Stories

    My earliest memory of truly learning about conduction was when I was an 11-year-old Boy Scout at my first jamboree.

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    Work for Someone First

    Published 1/26/18 by Dan Holohan | Categories: The Business of Heating

    An acquaintance wrote to ask this question: I am considering obtaining HVAC licenses and opening up a business.

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    Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters

    Published 12/28/17 by Dan Holohan | Categories: Darn-Good Stories, The Business of Heating, Troubled Heating Systems

    I can't hear that John Mayer song without thinking about our four daughters, and not just because they'll probably choose my nursing home.

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