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I fought the law and the law won. That should be the favorite song of any installer who tries to fight this one. Mother Nature is stubborn when it comes to evening out th...

Learn to sell. 90% of all signed contracts are not due to having the lowest price! Homeowners want cleanliness, health and comfort, quiet operation, decorating freedom, a...

Pools are almost a necessity for many homes, and certainly for resorts and hotels. It’s not uncommon for pools in recreational centers to expend $50,000 per year for fuel...

Ah, air! It's grand for living creatures, but often a problem for hydronic heating systems Air is basically 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen. Oxygen likes to corrode iron and ...

Many big buildings in our older cities use vacuum pumps to create a negative pressure in their condensate-return lines. This below-atmospheric pressure, which averages ar...

The most-immovable object I ever merrily walked into in the moist darkness of an old building's basement was the downturned, fully extended stem of a large OS&Y steam val...

We still have a landline because we get it as part of our TV/Internet package and we also have Caller ID on that phone, which helps us avoid most of the spam calls. I jus...

Does Maintenance Save Money?There are many numbers thrown about estimating the savings by performing certain maintenance activities. I remember meeting with a potential c...

A debate has continued in the industry about whether boiler jacket loss should be factored into the calculation of boiler efficiency. Most of the old boiler rooms were ve...

John was a custodian for a local school district. We used to call him “20 Questions” because he would constantly ply us with questions about the boilers when we would per...