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Honeywell's Heat Generator

In this excerpt from his Classic Hydronics seminar, Dan Holohan teaches us about Mark Honeywell’s Heat Generator. In the early days of hot water heating, Mark Honeywell i...

Published on 03/24/2020 3:16 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in Hot-Water Heating
The First Hot-Water Heating System

Jean Simon Bonnemain created the very first hot-water heating system in Paris in 1777 to heat chickens. In this video, Dan Holohan shares how this system worked and how i...

Published on 03/24/2020 3:11 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in Hot-Water Heating
Steam Traps (Video)

In this excerpt from his Dead Men’s Steam School seminar, Dan Holohan talks about steam traps in steam heating systems. He’ll tell you how steam traps work, how to test s...

Published on 03/24/2020 3:08 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in Steam Heating
Boiler Return Traps

In this excerpt from his Dead Men’s Steam School seminar, Dan Holohan talks about boiler return traps. These were installed on vapor heating systems. There are still many...

Published on 03/24/2020 3:05 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in Steam Heating
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The Anatomy of Annoying

The tiny tale I’m about to share with you got me thinking about noisy radiators. It usually doesn’t take much to get me thinking about radiators, but this time the inspir...

Published on 03/20/2020 4:00 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business