The Radiant Manifesto: Why You Are Heating Your Home All WrongMy old mentor used to scream, 'You can't heat a ghost!' This was back in the late eighties, standing in…
Fixing the 'I forgot to turn the heat down' problem with geofencingThe sound of a furnace firing up at 2 PM when nobody is home isn't just the sound of…
The Physics of Comfort: Why Your Wall Furnace is Lying to YouMy old mentor, a man who smelled perpetually of PVC glue and burnt electrical contactors, used to corner me…
You can buy all the wool blankets in the world and still feel that bone-deep chill the moment you step out of bed. It is not because your windows are…
The Real Reason Your Shreveport Home Feels Hotter After Installing Architectural Shingles The Real Reason Your Shreveport Home Feels Hotter After Installing Architectural Shingles It’s a scenario I see all…
The Ghost of Stratification: Why Your Feet Are Cold and Your Bill Is HighMy old mentor, a grizzled tin knocker named Silas who’d been hanging duct since the R-12 days,…
The Death of the Oil Burner and the Regulatory CliffListen, I've spent thirty years smelling like a diesel engine after crawling out of wet basements in the middle of a…
The Death of the Soot-Stained GiantIf you have lived in the Northeast for any length of time, you know the sound. It is a low, guttural rumble that starts in…
The Sound of Silence and the Physics of the FreezeI remember my old mentor, 'Iron' Mike, standing over a cracked boiler in a basement that smelled like wet coal and…
The Physics of the 'Sick Building' and the Airflow ManifestoMy old mentor, a grizzled tin knocker named 'Iron' Mike who had seen more rusted-out heat exchangers than I’ve had hot…