The Sound of a Silent Killer: Why Your New Furnace is Eating Your Old ChimneyMy old mentor used to scream at me until he was purple in the face: 'You…
I once followed a 'Sales Tech' into a basement in the dead of a Minneapolis winter where he had quoted a young couple $14,000 for a full system replacement because…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your Filter is Killing Your FurnaceI’ve spent three decades crawling through fiberglass-filled attics and dodging spider crickets in crawlspaces, and if there’s one thing that makes…
The Sound of a Silent Heat ExchangerIt’s 3 AM in the middle of a polar vortex. The wind is howling against the siding, and suddenly, you realize something is missing:…
The Sound of a Silent Killer: Why Combustion Analysis Isn't OptionalI remember my old mentor, a man who had more silver in his hair than a roll of solder and…
The Invisible Killer and the 'Pretty' Blue FlameMost techs walk up to a unit, see a blue flame, and tell the homeowner they are good to go. Those guys are…
The Physics of Neglect: Why Procrastination Kills FurnacesMy old mentor used to scream, 'You can't cool what you can't touch, and you can't heat what you can't move!' This was…
The Sound of Silence at 3 AM: Why Your Furnace Quits When the Mercury DropsIt’s 3 AM in the dead of January. The temperature outside is hovering somewhere between 'unpleasant'…
The Sound of a Failing System at 3 AMThere is a specific kind of silence that wakes an HVAC man up in the middle of a January night. It is…
You ever wake up at 3 AM to the sound of... nothing? No hum of the blower, no click of the contactor, just the heavy, oppressive silence of a house…