Run away boilers

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...
Dead wrong

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...
No gas for you!

No gas for you!

Will we eventually evolve to an all-electric based PHVAC world? Let’s turn back the hands of time to the 1970s, and gather round you youngsters born after 1980 because you’re not going to believe what mechanical contractors faced while fighting to keep their vehicles...