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My Friend's Mansion

I’ve known him for most of my career. He’s a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, NY. He’s absolutely delightful and he talks faster than I can think.

Published on 08/21/2023 4:25 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
Advice for Newbies

Ray Wohlfarth is a dear friend of many years and his advice about commercial boilers often appears in this magazine. He’s the best big-boiler guy I’ve ever met and he als...

Published on 08/21/2023 4:13 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
Close to Perfect?

I always enjoy looking at photos of their own work that Wallies post on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com. It’s not easy to do because The Wall is home to some of the sharpest ...

Published on 07/26/2023 3:32 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Magical Thinking

It was one of those days at HeatingHelp.com when the old guys had the floor. One of the regulars, a retired (and understandably crotchety) fella from Canada had this to s...

Published on 06/06/2023 11:08 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Times Change

Morris had me on the phone. It was 1974 and he was calling from Brooklyn, NY. I had a waxed handlebar mustache that year and my workmates at the manufacturers’ rep were c...

Published on 05/08/2023 2:30 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Who's Driving the Truck?

My first job in this business was to be a truck driver for an AC/Refrigeration wholesaler on Long Island. I didn’t have a car at the time, so I walked a mile to the branc...

Published on 05/03/2023 12:46 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Do You Miss the T87?

In 1885, when you could still buy a milk cow for $29.70, Albert Butz, a Swiss immigrant living in St. Paul, Minnesota, invented what he called the damper-flapper. He pate...

Published on 04/27/2023 2:09 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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What Did You Think Wouldn't Make It?

When we started HeatingHelp.com in 1997, the folks who built that first crude site told me we could have a links page. I asked what that was, and the young man doing the ...

Published on 04/27/2023 2:07 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business