Sixteen years ago, I walked into a Danfoss factory in Denmark and got bear-hugged by a man named Knud Mölholm.“Magazine Man!” he shouted and then grabbed me by the should...
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Archive for 2015
Our friend, Mark Eatherton, writes: There has been some discussion lately here on The Wall about how a homeowner knows whether the person and or company they are dealing ...
There is a restaurant on the ground floor of a large residential building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that I’ve been servicing for about 15 years now. It’s a busy plac...
Here's a full day's work compressed into a couple of minutes, courtesy of our friend John Cataneo's Dropcam. There's a lot to consider when moving a hot-water system from...
Thanks to Bob Polizzi for finding not only photos of T.J. Sullivan's vacuum regulator in place, but also its patent, which explains the entire operation of a device that ...
I like my coffee black. The Lovely Marianne takes hers with skim milk, no sugar. We were away for a few days last summer, and the morning after we returned, I checked the...
When deep (and persistent) snow arrives, danger arrives with it. I asked the professionals on The Wall what homeowners should do (and not do) to stay safe and here's some...
When I was young and working for the manufacturers’ rep on Long Island, I wanted to get some hands-on experience, so I went to the larger, family-owned fuel-oil dealers a...
A visitor to The Wall asked this question: I have a hydronic and radiant system that needs to be evaluated. I am finding that every plumbing-and-heating company will prov...
A visitor to the Wall asks, "I'm getting expansion noises from a cast-iron radiator and trying to figure out where it coming from." "Maybe the pipe that comes through the...