The ice cream trucks are coming down the street, but the kids going out to them are wearing sweaters. How about running through some sprinklers? Not in a good portion of the country, thank you.
The Minnesota legislature has approved a landmark bill that funds a pilot program for monitoring indoor air quality (IAQ) in select schools throughout the state.
The ink has long dried on the agreement between retail giant Sears and HVAC cornerstone Carrier Corp., whereby Carrier equipment is sold by Sears and installed and serviced by Sears subcontractors. More than eight months later, what are dealers thinking and feeling?
When you go to some business meetings, it is easy to get caught up in their flash. The International Service Leadership’s (ISL’s) Planning Retreat, held recently in Las Vegas, had plenty of flash and substance.
Installed correctly, heat pumps provide homes and businesses with reliable indoor comfort. Instead of rehashing what can go wrong with heat pump installations, this article will focus on what needs to go right.
Many system misdiagnoses unduly condemn the compressor. According to Copeland, approximately 30 percent of all air conditioning and refrigeration compressors returned to them under warranty are tagged "No Defect Found" (NDF).
“Two things affect belt life: heat and lack of maintenance,” said Eric Steele, technical manager for Optibelt Corp. The manufacturer’s Red Power II V-belt line addresses maintenance in larger horsepower units — commercial-industrial equipment, 25 to 30 hp and up.
I was having not too bad of a day last Thursday until I came home from work and discovered that my refrigerator wasn’t running. It reminded me of juvenile jokes: Is your refrigerator running? Well, you’d better catch it.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "A lot of office thermostats are completely fake — meant to dupe you into thinking you’ve altered the office weather conditions." Thus, the consumer media blurted out a practice sometimes applied in the HVAC industry — some thermostats aren’t installed to interact with the HVAC system. The jury is still out on whether or not they work.
The “Commstat” thermostat, designed to change its settings and send alarm messages to contractors and end users via telephone, has a new cousin: a thermostat with built-in speakers to help end users with visual impairments.