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Here’s a war story for you. I stood with a guy in the basement of a small commercial building on Long Island a few winters back. Several weeks earlier he’d attached a bra...
This article from the On The Town section of The New Yorker is such a nice way to end my speaking career. Many thanks to the very talented Zora O'Neill for writing the pi...
So let's say you're in one of America's older cities and scratching your head over an antique building that has a very confused steam-heating system. What to do? Of cours...
This past summer, we had Burnham BASE-RAY cast-iron baseboard radiators installed in our home. One of the benefits of BASE-RAY baseboards is that you can paint them to co...
Someone just asked me this question: If the temperature is 55 and you want it to be 65, will it get to 65 quicker by setting the thermostat to 80 rather than 65? I said n...
Sometimes, you just stumble over the answer. I think that the art part comes in recognizing that you got lucky that time. Now you have to figure out why you got lucky.
The steam seminar was to be in North Carolina, which was strange enough, that being the state where most folks only know how to say, “Heat pump, please.” It was also to b...
I was wondering about boiler chemicals and how many contractors (if any) were using them on brand-new systems. Do we need them? Hydronic systems are closed to the atmosph...
There was this day in the summer of '88 when it dawned on me that in 12 short years all four of our daughters would be in college at the same time. Kelly would be a senio...
I fished for the first time in my life six years ago, which may seem strange since I was born on an island (Manhattan) and grew up on another island (Long). But my father...
