by Dave Yates | Oct 26, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
It never hurts to perform your own inspections. I was revisiting a boiler bid with customers for whom we’ve done other work in the past, and we were going over the two-year-old bid to replace their aging beast in the basement. The boiler was really a bandit...
by Dave Yates | Sep 29, 2020 | eBooks
eBook We are proud to present the third of the four-part eBook series that chronicles Dave’s “Adventures in Hydronic Heating.” Dave shares some of his most memorable success stories on the jobsite — wins that saved his customers countless amounts of energy and...
by Dave Yates | Sep 28, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
How to get your “foot in the door.” Let’s be honest: More than a few customers have champagne tastes but exist on a beer budget. I’ve encountered it on multiple sales calls — where a potential customer has read about the outstanding comfort and health benefits of...
by Dave Yates | Aug 27, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
Better to be on the safe side. Forty-eight years ago, as a plumbing apprentice, we used ABS schedule 40 piping and fittings for DWV work. At that time, only cast iron pipe and fittings were permitted for use below grade. Transition from cast iron was made using a...
by Dave Yates | Aug 11, 2020 | Honors and Awards
BNP Plumbing Group Columnist Dave Yates was appointed to IAPMO’s Hydronics Standards Committee (HSC) as a voting member by the organization’s executive committee. Yates will serve in the general interest category for a term of two years. As an...