Goettl Air Conditioning, Inc., which has been manufacturing heating and air conditioning equipment in Phoenix, AZ, since 1939, earned two awards recently.
Ed McMahon is suing his home insurance company for $20 million, claiming it botched a simple repair on a broken pipe and, as a result, allowed a toxic mold to spread throughout his Los Angeles home, making his family sick and killing his dog.
“Continue writing about mold,” a contractor told Editor-in-Chief Mark Skaer. “It definitely is a problem, and we need to know as much as we can about it.”
Plenty of R&D went into the creation of the new residential products from Trane Residential Systems. The company’s senior management team was more than happy to elaborate on the creation of its XLi air conditioners and heat pumps, plus its “new-and-improved” two-stage gas furnaces and air handlers, at a Media Day event in Tyler, TX, recently.
It was an e-mail from a trade press colleague. He was forwarding a news release he had received — and, he could not help but include this teaser: “Mark, I don’t know whether to say ‘Oh, brother’ or order one.”
It’s the American way: Contribute to a politician’s campaign or political party and see if you can get something in return. Some might consider this buying a politician’s vote, but not Tom Donohue.
Richard Hallinan of Executive Plumbing, Heating & Air, Corona, CA, was elected as a new trustee at-large of the Construction Contractors’ Alliance, an enhanced service group of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors — National Association.