Articles by Michael McConnell

Groups like NADCA have done a lot to boost the professional image of companies that perform duct cleaning, but the industry is still rife with dishonest contractors who prey on homeowners.

If you’re like most contractors, you have a desktop computer at your office, a laptop or tablet that you carry to jobsites and a smartphone that goes everywhere with you.

When you decide it’s time to part with your collection of say, baseball cards, it’s usually not too difficult to find a buyer.

 If the collection is any good, dealers will often buy the whole thing, knowing that they’ll be able to make much more selling it off card by card. Or you can place an ad in a collector magazine or try online auction sites such as eBay.

I recently saw TV reports that gasoline dropped — at least temporarily — below $1 a gallon in a few areas around Snips’ home state of Michigan. 

Winter storms battering much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic were no match for the 2016 AHR Expo, which drew almost 61,000 to Orlando, Florida.

If anyone at Alan Beaulieu’s presentations to HARDI members at its convention was hoping to hear that the election of a new president will goose the economy, they were likely disappointed. 

LAS VEGAS — Stormtroopers. Robotic bartenders. And dancers that looked like they stepped right off the Cirque de Soleil stage.

If someone mentions “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” to you, what’s the first thing you think of?

Spaceships? Lightsaber battles? A bunch of geeky men wearing Stormtrooper costumes parading around at a science fiction convention?

For me, at least during the last few years, it’s sheet metal. 

If you looked at the cover of this month’s issue, then you know it’s time for the AHR Expo, the annual trade show where everything that has to do with the HVAC market is on display.