New load calculations are coming your way Barbara A. Checket-Hanks July 6, 2000 No Comments ASHRAE Forum Speakers Hint New Methods Will Be Simpler, “Radically Different.”Read More
IAQ, you, and the new Millennium Barbara A. Checket-Hanks July 1, 2000 No Comments It’s only six more months until the millennium really starts.Read More
How to create noise and vibration problems Barbara A. Checket-Hanks July 1, 2000 No Comments Cutting Corners Can Lead to Bigger Costs.Read More
How to Reduce Gas Pump Pain Barbara A. Checket-Hanks June 26, 2000 No Comments Across most of the U.S., gasoline costs are continuing to rise, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to come down anytime soon.Read More
Chickens, Eggs, & Technician Training Barbara A. Checket-Hanks June 12, 2000 No Comments Like the age-old question of the chicken and the egg, the forces contributing to the shortage of available techs defy easy resolution.Read More
Alcohol + tobacco = contractor opportunity Barbara A. Checket-Hanks June 1, 2000 No Comments The association has established an initiative called “atmospherePLUS,” to help licensed beverage facility owners learn more about filtration and ventilation options.Read More
Old methods vs. new for finding cracked heat exchangers Barbara A. Checket-Hanks May 12, 2000 No Comments Checking for cracked heat exchangers is one of the most important inspections a technician can make when servicing a heating system.Read More
Return to the Case of the Heat Pump Freeze-up Barbara A. Checket-Hanks May 12, 2000 One Comment In the April 24 issue, we posed the problem of the homeowner who was having “nothing but problems” with a heat pump they had installed in July 1997.Read More
Techs: How's your career going? Barbara A. Checket-Hanks May 10, 2000 No Comments It’s been said that a good hvacr service technician is a “special breed of cat."Read More
Thermostat gives utilities control of residential A/C Barbara A. Checket-Hanks May 8, 2000 No Comments Contractors in the Midwest have picked up their pace as temperatures started soaring a bit prematurely.Read More