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Ernie's Estimates

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.

Published on 03/30/2018 6:22 PM
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters

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. The Lovely Marianne and I manag...

Published on 12/28/2017 4:28 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Zack the Ripper

Zack the Ripper had no idea what he was looking at but he was not about to let that simple truth stand in his way. The device (whatever it was) was large and dark. It hun...

Published on 12/11/2017 1:25 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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What I Learned in Germany

The first time I went to Germany (this was in 1991), I met an engineer at the big ISH tradeshow in Frankfurt. "Your accent," he said. "You are an American?" "I am," I sai...

Published on 09/20/2017 8:23 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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A Timeline of HeatingHelp.com

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...

Published on 08/13/2017 12:30 PM
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Celebrating 20 Years of HeatingHelp.com

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 ...

Published on 08/12/2017 6:49 PM by Erin Holohan Haskell
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Rebirth

The Boyertown Foundry is the big guy on the stool over there who is sometimes quiet, but who rises with pinpoint violence when needed. There is a fury about him that you ...

Published on 02/15/2017 2:38 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Nine by 12

On the afternoon that I was born, and thirty or so miles east of the place where I was born, men were leveling Long Island potato fields and laying out the building plots...

Published on 06/04/2016 4:00 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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The Lovely Marianne

The photographer asked her not to smile, which gave us even more incentive to try to make Mom laugh. It was a hazy afternoon in Cape May, NJ. My three sisters and I huddl...

Published on 05/05/2016 4:23 PM by Erin Holohan Haskell
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Like Family

A long time ago, I was doing a hydronics seminar somewhere in Virginia, around D.C. A young guy came up to me during the first break and introduced himself as Dan Foley. ...

Published on 05/03/2016 11:21 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business