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During HeatingHelp.com’s Dead Men Tales podcast, industry expert and master storyteller Dan Holohan shares the stories behind the work and fun facts you may not know about heating history.

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• The Magic of a Simple Air Vent

  Published 6/28/22 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the story of how the air vent made quite an impression on those who were able to afford this relatively new thing called steam...

• The Hartford Loop

  Published 6/21/22 by Dan Holohan

   From 1879 to 1891 there were 2,159 reported steam boiler explosions in the US. In this episode, Dan Holohan shares the story behind a piping configuration that saved boilers and...

• The Foundry

  Published 6/14/22 by Dan Holohan

   Boilers don’t come from catalogs. In this episode, Dan Holohan takes us to a foundry where boilers are born. Episode TranscriptI asked Sissy about the floor in the old building because...

• Old-School Solutions

  Published 6/7/22 by Dan Holohan

  In this episode, Dan Holohan takes you to a circa-1871 loft building in NYC and shows you how Paul and Joe are running a large steam-heating system without steam traps...