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Dave Yates: Contractor’s Corner
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Dave Yates covers issues related to business and PHVAC from a contractor's perspective.

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Dave Yates

Dave Yates: Heroes and zeros

Texas PHVAC contractors face unprecedented challenge.
Dave Yates
April 5, 2021
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As Texas settled into a deadly-serious Polar Vortex, you could predict the pattern emerging based on your own past experiences with bitter-cold sustained weather conditions: No-heat calls inundating your emergency calls; heating systems not able to keep up with demand; heating systems stressed to the breaking-point; followed by frozen water lines, water services and water mains; and then biblical flooding and damage once thawing temperatures arrived. 


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Dave Yates: Run away boilers

Scary stories to keep you awake at night.
Dave Yates
March 2, 2021
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If you have never been face-to-face with a run away boiler, I can assure you it makes your sphincter pucker!


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Dave Yates: Trial by fire

The climb to success doesn’t include an elevator or escalator; there are only stairs to climb.
Dave Yates
January 27, 2021
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I always hated the business side of being in business. After a hard day’s work, we would retire to our home office to do billing, write checks and fill in the books. 


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Dave Yates: Vented or vent-free gas logs and heaters

Ensure your customers are aware of the advantages and disadvantages.
Dave Yates
December 28, 2020
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Remember the wall-vented, gas-fired space heaters with standing pilots? 


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Dave Yates: Winterizing buildings

Do it the right way to avoid future disaster.
Dave Yates
December 1, 2020
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I have far too many memories of freeze damage in "winterized" homes where the winterizing procedure consisted of shutting off the main valve, opening a basement drain in the potable water system, opening all faucets, flushing every toilet, adding automotive antifreeze to traps and toilet tanks/bowls, and turning off the heat. 


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Dave Yates: Dead wrong

It never hurts to perform your own inspections.
Dave Yates
October 26, 2020
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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. 


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Dave Yates: Making radiant work on a budget

How to get your “foot in the door.”
Dave Yates
September 28, 2020
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Let’s be honest: More than a few customers have champagne tastes but exist on a beer budget. 


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Dave Yates: ABS or PVC?

Better to be on the safe side.
Dave Yates
August 27, 2020
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Forty-eight years ago, as a plumbing apprentice, we used ABS schedule 40 piping and fittings for DWV work. 


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Dave Yates: Legionella in HVAC

Taking a deeper look.
Dave Yates
July 24, 2020
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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. 


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Dave Yates: 6 COVID-19 business tips

Capitalize on a cooped up population hungry to enhance safety, comfort and peace-of-mind.
Dave Yates
June 23, 2020
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This past week, I experienced my first virtual doctor’s visit. First time for everything, right? 


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