By Ron Beck, Outside Technical Advisor and Manager of Training for U.S. Boiler Company It is late in the day, you’re tired, hungry, dirty and looking forward to going home and spending time with the family over a cold beer. Before heading home, you take a few minutes and marvel at the heating masterpiece you …Read More
US Boiler Report
Gateway Plumbing & Heating Perfects Steam
It was 1976 on Staten Island, NY. John Cataneo Jr. was seven years old and his brother David was 11, and they were in the basement of their home learning to thread pipe. Their father had recently left the plumber’s union to found his own plumbing company, Gateway Plumbing & Heating. John Cataneo Sr. named …Read More
The Alliance Indirect Water Heater Goes Lightweight
Mass and strength are often closely associated. And why not? Guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Andre the Giant and Reggie White had both, in spades! Yes, it’s a relatively safe bet that the heavier something – or someone – is built, the more robust it will be. However, it’s not a hard and fast rule. Light …Read More
Heavy Duty Recycling
As a consumer, you do your part to recycle the items and containers you use on a daily basis. But you use – indirectly – far more material and equipment than you might expect. Your vehicle’s brake rotors eventually fail and get replaced. Old bulldozers that graded the lots in your development eventually can’t doze …Read More
Can You Bear the Market??
Have you ever done this: Called up one of your competitors, assumed a fake voice and asked, “How much do you charge?” Go ahead. Admit it. We’ve all done it. If you took Economics 101 in high school or college, you learned that selling prices for goods and services are determined by “what the market will …Read More
Hydronic Retrofit Yields 33% Fuel Savings for Elementary School
Some HVAC companies focus exclusively on home comfort. Others concentrate on commercial work. And then there are those that operate effectively in both markets. Bob Ives, president of Bow Plumbing and Heating Corp. in Bow, New Hampshire, explains that they specialize in home comfort, but their frequent high-efficiency boiler work makes his company a name …Read More
Alpine Multiple Boiler Installations
By Ron Beck, Outside Technical Advisor and Manager of Training for U.S. Boiler Company Some large homes and many commercial boiler applications will include installations of multiple boilers. The Alpine high-efficiency condensing boiler will allow up to eight boilers to be piped and wired together, all controlled by a single master boiler. The master can …Read More
Folds of Honor
For many of us, Veterans Day serves as a brief reminder of the sacrifice that our past and present armed service members make in order to protect the freedom we all enjoy. For others, that sacrifice is an ever-present consideration. Military men and women have paid a toll for which we cannot reimburse them. But …Read More
Troops to Trades
As the bulk of skilled tradesmen and women in the United States approach a decade or less before retirement, fewer Millennials are pursuing a career in the trades despite rewarding pay and job security. According to ManpowerGroup, in 2012, 53% of skilled-trade workers in the United States were 45 years or older, and almost 20% …Read More
Business Basics: The ONLY Three Ways to Grow Assets
You can turn around a bad financial situation if you are willing to apply some ‘bare bones’ business basics. In business, there is ultimately one financial scorecard: The Balance Sheet. Every other financial report is a subset of the balance sheet. The Balance Sheet equation: Assets = Liabilities + Equity Assets = Claims on the Assets. This …Read More