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My daughter Erin — whose work appears in Plumbing Mechanical and other trade journals from time to time — along with her three sisters grew up listening to me talk nonsto...

Larry Weingarten, who knows more about water heaters than most of us, shared this circa-1932 booklet about The Danger of Food Contamination by Aluminum. We include it in ...

When Tony Fadell of iPod fame came up with the idea of the Nest thermostat it made me smile. I had read an interview with him in a business magazine. He explained how he ...

Here is a step-by-step procedure for troubleshooting a thermocouple on gas systems: A thermocouple is a device used to satisfy pilot safety on many 24-volt gas systems. T...

Thanks to Tim McElwain for sharing his extensive knowledge with us. You can contact Tim at his Gas Training Institute: 401-437-0557

Thanks to Tim McElwain for sharing his extensive knowledge with us. You can contact Tim at his Gas Training Institute: 401-437-0557.

Thanks to Tim McElwain for sharing his extensive knowledge with us. You can contact Tim at his Gas Training Institute: 401-437-0557

I was looking at a photograph of Crosley Field, a grand, Cincinnati, Ohio baseball stadium that burned to the ground in 1900. The men in the photo are wearing derbies and...

"They don't live in the building. They never complain because they have nothing to complain about. They don't have agents, and best of all, they pay their rent on time." ...

I was having a conversation the other day with Mr. Ara Marcus Daniels, who is quite dead. I do such things because I have time on my hands and not much of a life. We were...