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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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The Power of Story

I had my first exposure to the Hydronics Institute when it was still the Institute of Boiler and Radiation Manufacturers and I was working for the manufacturers' rep. My ...

Published on 07/17/2017 3:02 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Life's Painful Lessons

The most-immovable object I ever merrily walked into in the moist darkness of an old building's basement was the downturned, fully extended stem of a large OS&Y steam val...

Published on 05/22/2017 9:32 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Nothing But The Truth

We still have a landline because we get it as part of our TV/Internet package and we also have Caller ID on that phone, which helps us avoid most of the spam calls. I jus...

Published on 04/26/2017 2:47 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Alumni Advice

Our daughter, Colleen, is the Executive Director of an AmeriCorps program called the Massachusetts Promise Fellowship. They do very good work out of Northeastern Universi...

Published on 03/16/2017 3:31 PM by Dan Holohan
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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The Finicky Soap Pump

The Lovely Marianne and I were visiting daughters in suburban Maryland, and this almost always involves a stop at some shopping mall or other. It was lunchtime and I offe...

Published on 01/16/2017 3:13 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Seven Years, Tops

So the washing machine, which had sat like a sorry old man and served our family for at least 25 years, decided to spring more leaks that a litter of puppies last Christm...

Published on 11/18/2016 2:17 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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The Lure of Online Suppliers

The question came up on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com about why some contractors buy some or most of their stuff from online suppliers these days. This led to a conversatio...

Published on 09/13/2016 1:53 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business