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Bradford White Water Heaters adds PowerStor Series® performance calculator to RightSpec® Sizing Guide online tool
Bradford White Water Heaters, an industry-leading manufacturer of residential and commercial water heating and storage…
Brute FT® Wall Hung and Floor Standing Boilers and Combination Boilers
Bradford White Water Heaters Brute FT® Wall Hung and Floor Standing Boilers and Combination Boilers feature a unique…
Boston Area Apartment Building Upgrades to Laars
A circa 1964 apartment building in Arlington, MA still had its original on/off steam to cast-iron baseboard heating…
Lead-Free Brass Instrumentation for Potable Water Systems
Winters Instruments introduced a line of lead-free instrumentation for potable water to provide a cost-effective…
Randy Spracklin: Restoring and creating on the Rock
Randy Spracklin, co-owner of Newfound Builders and crew boss on HGTV Canada’s Rock Solid Builds, embraces the…
Terence Chan: Born entrepreneur
Terence Chan wasn’t enjoying the engineering program he was enrolled in, so he took his parents’ advice and…
Creating tighter duct systems: An efficient strategy
While preparing for a training program on the compelling history of energy efficiency improvements in Canadian…
Supply and service sector faces new competition
Mechanical Business has uncovered information regarding Hydro One that will impact mechanical contractors and their…
Add videos to your marketing strategy
Humans have always been visual creatures. Our earliest communication was with pictures, long before we learned…
Water Is Our Friend: If It Is Contained and Channeled Properly
Over the years as the general manager of a plumbing and heating company I came across many water damage insurance…
Understanding Toilet Technology
Every plumber wants to be sure that they complete each project to their client’s satisfaction. When it comes to…
Unsophisticated test yields great results
A number of years ago, a colleague of mine and I were teaching building science in Russia to a number of…
Who is in control around here?
You take a few steps backwards, snap a few “glamour” shots and send your piping pics around the globe. It is a…
The finer points of leak detection
There is an old trades’ saying that you became a plumber and not an electrician because there was too much math in…
All about actuators
We are surrounded by actuators in our everyday life. In your home, the trip lever on your toilet is one of the…
Flood recovery: A guide for home heating and cooling systems
To state the obvious, a heating and cooling system was not designed to operate in or under water. If a property was…
The lowdown on basements, cellars and crawlspaces
This discussion deals with homes that are “intentionally air-tight” and where the basement, cellar or crawlspace is…
About grease interceptors
Grease interceptors, or grease traps as they are often-misnamed, are frequently misunderstood and largely…
The move towards mass timber buildings − Part I
Buildings constructed of mass timber are becoming the “new kids on the block” for the residential and commercial…
