by Dave Yates | Nov 3, 2021 | pmmag.com Articles
The tale of an oil hot-water boiler project and a hot head customer. Looking over the new home plans in order to provide the builder with pricing, I noticed there was no chimney included. Way out in the country, where no natural gas was available and the owner had...
by Dave Yates | Mar 2, 2021 | pmmag.com Articles
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...
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 | Jun 12, 2019 | pmmag.com Articles
Ask Dave, he’ll know.” I had just walked into the inside sales area to give our salesman a list to quote. A friendly competitor was looking for answers and one of the salesmen told him to ask me for my thoughts. He had recently installed a new boiler with five zones...
by Dave Yates | Nov 30, 2015 | Videos
An outdated floor-standing heating system makes way for Navien’s new high-tech wall-hung condensing modulating boiler, the NHB, in a video shot during a recent Pennsylvania retrofit. Featuring a most efficient turndown ratio of 15:1, installer Dave...