How to Save a Boiler's Life
It's a given these days that all boilers have low-water cutoffs and that makes me very happy because I've seen hot-water boilers explode. One involved a sand hole in a ca...
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25,000 Days
On July 8, my body’s odometer went over 25,000 days. When life’s dial flipped to that number, I woke with wonder and thought, once again, that I probably should have chan...
Baseboard: How Much Is Too Much?
So this hefty gent comes up to me after a hot-water seminar and tells me about a problem he's having with this copper-fintube baseboard loop he installed in this big hall...
All Steam Is Not Created Equal
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The Leaky Bucket
The question was in the Manchester Evening News, a British newspaper, and it caught my eye when I was going through my daily Google Alerts on things that have to do with ...
Never Wrong
So I’ve known this guy (let’s call him Jerry) for a very long time. We came up in the business together, and I like him. He’s a good guy, and if he lived next door he wou...
The Roots of Radiant Heating Seminar
This seminar was filmed on June 5, 2018 as part of the Labor Lecture Series at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Radiant heating wit...
How to Talk Me Out Of It
We were once a five-car family. That was when the four daughters were in college. Three of them had cars, which The Lovely Marianne and I paid for, of course.
Buddy's Beaters
It wasn’t a very long list – just 25 people in all – but it nagged at Buddy in the night and robbed him of his rest. He’d toss and dream unsettling dreams of Mrs. Gibbing...
Where to Find Used Radiators
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