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This was going to be an easy job – one of those in-and-out deals where a guy can make a fast buck, but the truth was he didn't really care whether he got this one or not....
Years ago, in some dank basement, a contractor installed a large air vent near the end of a steam main. He did this because he knew that steam and air are both gases, but...
Here's Johnny! It sounded like someone was coming through the front door with a fire axe. We were sound asleep and then it arrived, as it did night after night, all winte...
What's wrong with this picture? See the remote thermostat sitting on top of the hot radiator? The folks in that office wondered why they couldn't seem to get comfortable.
It was a real battle in the early days of heating. There were steamfitters and then there were the hot water people. I have a wonderful old ad from Honeywell that goes ba...
They built our house in 1950 here on the Isle of Long and it used to have a radiant heating system. In 1970, the previous owner noticed wet spots on his kitchen floor, an...
The World Headquarters of HeatingHelp.com, our humble company, used to be in a tiny store in beautiful downtown Bethpage, here on the Isle of Long. We then moved to anoth...
Marianne and I were at the 5 PM mass last Saturday. We like going to that mass because it allows us to be lazy in bed with newspapers and coffee on Sunday mornings. We've...
More and more radiant systems going into existing homes as retrofit projects. On many of these jobs the tubing winds up getting attached to the underside of the wood floo...
Each morning, when I sit at my desk, I give a moment’s thought to the broken copper pipes that are buried in the concrete slab just below my feet. The guy who lived here ...
