Four years ago, I attended my first AHR Expo in Chicago. And no matter how many times my colleagues warned me to bring my walking shoes, I was blown away by the sheer size of the event. I put in my daily 10,000 steps — and then some — walking back and forth between the halls learning about ductless mini-splits, cooling towers, boilers, water heaters and more.
Price is a topic everyone wants to discuss and everyone has an opinion about, and you are probably wondering why I am even implying there is a circumstance when price doesn’t matter. Before you start thinking I’m crazy, let me explain.
I’m 69 years old and my hair is as brown as it was when I was a teenager. A bit of it, mostly around my ears and the back of my neck, sneaks in as gray, but some Russian barber just buzzes those stray hairs away and I’m back to being a young fella again. I like the Russian barbers.
In last month’s Hydronics Workshop column I described five devices that would, in my opinion, improve and expand the North American hydronics industry. Here’s my “wish list” from that column:
As a backpacker, the most important item I carry in my backpack is water. I start each morning of a hike with three liters of water; two in my bladder and one in my bottle. The water bottle looks like any typical water bottle that people carry.
Recent reports from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality show the lowest level of contamination since the water crisis began in Flint, Michigan in 2014. The agency reports 90% of Flint water samples had 4 parts per billion of lead or less in the last six months of 2018.
An installer sets up a zoned distribution system as shown below. To keep it simple, he uses the same size piping for the headers and all the distribution circuits. The heat source is a low-mass, copper-tube boiler with high-flow resistance.
Fred Esleck was named area manager for Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle; Jeremy Morse joined its Fabrication Estimation Department.
Charlotte Pipe spokesperson Brad Muller recently was featured in a January Fox News report about China’s unfair trade and business practices that drew an outpouring of support.
Stuart’s Plumbing has been a family business for more than 28 years. The company was established in 1990 by the late Stuart Baldick Jr. But after 10 years of owning the franchise, he decided to branch out and establish his own brand.
Marty Kirchner never specifies standard toilets anymore, instead opting for comfort height, ADA compliant options. Kirchner, the co-owner and vice president of La Crosse, Wisconsin-based Kirchner Custom Builders, notes that he helps his clients plan for the future during the design/build process.
Novo’s HTO system is ideal for homes on chlorinated, hard municipal water. This one-of-a-kind system produces the same high-quality water as having separate softener and carbon filtration units without the wasted space or cost of two units.
Falsken Water Systems’ the Heater Treater (celebrating its 20th year) was originally designed for protecting tankless water heaters from hard water scaling, but it has proven effective on all water heating devices.