So, you’ve been thinking about starting your own HVACR contracting business. Or, perhaps you vowed HVACR success as a New Year’s resolution. But where do you begin? The NEWS recently connected with a handful of HVACR professionals and asked them: “If you were just breaking into the industry, which tools would be most important to success, and why?”
Contractors could consider each app as a specific tool in their electronic tool belt. To help you in your electronic tool gathering, The NEWS has compiled a sampling of some of the manufacturer apps currently available for contractors that can be used in their business or as an added value to their customers.
CPS Products Inc. has been acquired by Harbour Group, announced Ed Jeffers, CPS’s chief executive officer. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CPS is a manufacturer of tools, equipment, and instruments used by technicians who service commercial HVACR and automotive a/c systems.
Whose job is it to buy the tools and take care of the service vehicle? That’s a question that each contractor answers individually. There isn’t a cookie-cutter solution that works for every HVAC business. So what works for these guys?
Despite understanding that technician images and customer perceptions are important, contractors don’t usually specify how their technicians organize their tools. That leaves the organization conundrum up to the technician.
When working in confined or hard-to-reach areas, the Cobra® Quick Set, which has been added to the Cobra water pump pliers family, gives the user the ability to get the job done easily and efficiently. To adjust the tool, the user can slide the top handle forward to achieve the desired capacity.
ASHRAE’s Energy Modeling Conference: Tools for Designing High Performance Buildings, Oct. 1-3, 2012, Atlanta, seeks to advance the practitioner’s ability to more accurately model and simulate a building’s energy use.
Tiger Remarketing Services is auctioning more than 1,000 lots of construction equipment, building, warehouse, and office equipment and supplies, along with a wide array of contractors' tools and more, in an online sale at www.soldtiger.com. Bidding is underway and will close with a live auction on Sept. 13.
Ridgid cordless tools are welcoming a new tool to the line, the view-only micro CA-25 handheld inspection camera, and professionals within the ToolSelect.com community are ready to review, discuss, and compare to other inspection cameras.
