by Dave Yates | Jul 24, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
Taking a deeper look. In 1976, while attending an American Legion Convention at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, 211 people became ill and 34 of them died from what was thought to be a previously unknown type of bacterial pneumonia. After this outbreak and...
by Dave Yates | Jun 23, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
Capitalize on a cooped up population hungry to enhance safety, comfort and peace-of-mind. This past week, I experienced my first virtual doctor’s visit. First time for everything, right? Before I was permitted to meet with my doctor, I had to first pass a Zoom test...
by Dave Yates | May 21, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
A story of poorly specified products in a mismanaged ER. My dear, sweet 95-year-old mother-in-law fell and cracked several vertebrae last year. A few days later, she was having extreme pain and her doctor told us we should take her to the ER at one of our two local...
by Dave Yates | Mar 10, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
The PHVAC industry is ever changing and ever evolving. Suppose I was to tell you there exists a tankless water heater you could install on the hardest of hard water that would never, ever have to be descaled and that its heat exchanger’s water pathways would look...
by Dave Yates | Feb 11, 2020 | pmmag.com Articles
Ensure you do the job right the first time. “All I ever do is staple-up.” That was my friend and competitor’s response after he asked me to determine why a recent radiant heating installation was not working satisfactorily because the owners were ticked...