Back in the days when I was traveling and doing seminars with The Lovely Marianne, we faced the challenge of getting the meeting planners at various hotels to give us wha...
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Archive for 2017
To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, we thought it would be fun to break out our "baby pictures" and share how far we've come. Throughout the years, we've been committed to...
My parents Dan and Marianne Holohan founded HeatingHelp.com in 1997. My three sisters and I grew up right alongside the business. As kids we had no idea about the weight ...
We service the steam system in an old apartment building in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Avondale Apartment Building was built in 1914, and has ...
If the water isn’t right, the steam won’t be dry. Dry steam is a technical term. It means that the steam leaving the boiler contains no more than two percent liquid water...
Here is a superb account of the early history of comfort heating, written by our friend Bern Nagengast for The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration NEWS.
One of the things I love most about this business is the history of the heating systems in the old homes we work in. I enjoy poking around in the basements of old homes t...
My Sunday mornings are usually spent catching up on proposals, writing, design work and other tasks that have slipped through the cracks over the previous week and can be...
The phone rang on a cold morning this fall. “I need your help converting my steam system to hot water. I am tired of the banging, uneven heat and astronomical gas bills.
The heating business has a way of humbling you. After more than 25 years of running service calls on all types of heating and cooling systems, I had managed to tackle the...