Expert PHCP-PVF & HVAC Consulting Service
Expert PHCP-PVF & HVAC Consulting Service
Meet Dave Yates
Dave Yates began his career in the PHCP-PVF trades in 1972 with F. W. Behler, a third-generation plumbing/ HVAC firm he purchased in 1985. Besides running F.W. Behler, writing articles for industry trade publications and speaking at events, Yates also is an experienced teacher in the hydronics industry, serving as an adjunct professor and on the Technical Advisory Board for the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. Dave is available to serve as an expert witness for PHCP-PVF & HVAC cases. You can Contact Dave Here or Learn More About Dave and Yates Consulting LLC here
Years of Industry Experience
Years of Consulting Experience
% Growth of FW Behler Sales '85-'19
Number of Industry Certifications
Dave Yates News and Articles
Heroes and zeros
Texas PHVAC contractors face unprecedented challenge. BanksPhotos/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images As Texas settled into a deadly-serious Polar Vortex, you could predict the pattern emerging based on your own past experiences with bitter-cold sustained...
Run away boilers
Scary stories to keep you awake at night. mevans/E+ via Getty Images If you have never been face-to-face with a run away boiler, I can assure you it makes your sphincter pucker! My first one was during my first year as an apprentice. It was a steam boiler in a...
Trial by fire
The climb to success doesn’t include an elevator or escalator; there are only stairs to climb. I always hated the business side of being in business. After a hard day’s work, we would retire to our home office to do billing, write checks and fill in the books. Truth...
Vented or vent-free gas logs and heaters
Ensure your customers are aware of the advantages and disadvantages. Remember the wall-vented, gas-fired space heaters with standing pilots? It sure was fun trying to relight those pilots through the peephole on windy days — not. I had one customer who heated their...
Adventures in Hydronic Heating Volume 4
eBook Plumbing & Mechanical Magazine is proud to present to you the fourth and final installment of these hydronics eBooks in 2020, featuring the expert advice of industry veteran Dave Yates. Be sure to bookmark this link so you can reference these...
Winterizing buildings
Do it the right way to avoid future disaster. I have far too many memories of freeze damage in "winterized" homes where the winterizing procedure consisted of shutting off the main valve, opening a basement drain in the potable water system, opening all faucets,...
Dead wrong
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 robbing...
Adventures in Hydronic Heating Volume 3
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...
Making radiant work on a budget
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...
ABS or PVC?
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...