The Damp Reality of 'Efficient' HeatingI’ve spent thirty years crawling through damp crawlspaces and sweating in mechanical rooms, and if there is one thing that makes my skin crawl more…
I’ve spent thirty years dragging my tool bag through crawlspaces that would make a rat claustrophobic and balancing on icy rooftops that would give a mountain goat vertigo. In those…
The Smell of Neglect: Why Your Air Quality Is Physics, Not MagicThe first thing you notice when a furnace fires up after a long, humid summer isn't the warmth; it's…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your Lungs Are Acting Like a FilterYour HVAC system is a set of lungs, and right now, those lungs are likely gasping for air through a…
The Physics of Breathing: Why Your Hardware Store Filter is Lying to YouMy old mentor, a grizzled tin knocker named Sarge who had lost three fingers to a shear and…
My old mentor used to scream, 'You can't cool what you can't touch!' at the top of his lungs while we were crawling through fiberglass-filled crawlspaces in the dead of…
The Invisible Weight of a Dead SummerYou know that feeling when you walk into a house and the air feels heavy, like you’re trying to breathe through a wet wool…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your House Feels Like a Cold Swamp or a Dry DesertI’ve spent thirty years crawling through fiberglass-filled attics and dodging spiders in damp crawlspaces, and if…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your 'Efficient' Home Is Suffocating YouMy old mentor, a man who could sniff out a cracked heat exchanger from the driveway, used to grab me by…
The Sound of a $5,000 MistakeMost homeowners think the worst sound an air conditioner can make is a screeching bearing or the death rattle of a failing compressor. They’re wrong.…