It was one of those days at HeatingHelp.com when the old guys had the floor. One of the regulars, a retired (and understandably crotchety) fella from Canada had this to say:
“You want to know what drives me to distraction? Magical thinking — the sort of thought process some ‘experts’ rely on. A guy goes into a boiler room and scratches his head because the system is one he isn’t familiar with, so he ‘fixes it’ by trying to change it to something he thinks he understands. But now nothing works, so he shrugs and tells the customer that it’s really old and they should upgrade to something new, meaning something that he thinks he understands.