Essential Differences
Last February, The Lovely Marianne and I spent three days driving from The Isle of Long to Naples, Florida, where our friends, Bob and Loreen, were expecting us. I knew t...
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Avoiding Scale in Heating Systems
Having scale on heating surfaces is like having all the traffic lights in your town turn red at the same time, and stay red. Most movement stops. In the case of a boiler,...
What If Everybody Did This?
Sometimes, my column writes itself. This is one of those times. Last January, a guy posted this on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com.
Excellent Choice!
The Lovely Marianne and I were out to dinner with our daughter, Erin, who bought our business when we retired a few years ago. We were in a nice Italian restaurant and th...
How to Save a Boiler's Life
It's a given these days that all boilers have low-water cutoffs and that makes me very happy because I've seen hot-water boilers explode. One involved a sand hole in a ca...
25,000 Days
On July 8, my body’s odometer went over 25,000 days. When life’s dial flipped to that number, I woke with wonder and thought, once again, that I probably should have chan...
Baseboard: How Much Is Too Much?
So this hefty gent comes up to me after a hot-water seminar and tells me about a problem he's having with this copper-fintube baseboard loop he installed in this big hall...
All Steam Is Not Created Equal
Wet steam? Dry steam? Take a pound of water (that's about a pint), and heat it from 32° F to 212° F.
The Leaky Bucket
The question was in the Manchester Evening News, a British newspaper, and it caught my eye when I was going through my daily Google Alerts on things that have to do with ...
Never Wrong
So I’ve known this guy (let’s call him Jerry) for a very long time. We came up in the business together, and I like him. He’s a good guy, and if he lived next door he wou...