It’s been seven years since Trane and Home Depot announced
their agreement featuring Home Depot as a sales lead generator for local Trane
dealers. One company that has reported a positive relationship has been Burgess
Heating & Air Inc., Safety Harbor, Fla.
Carbon monoxide (CO) testing is one of the main concerns
that should be addressed in every structure in which contractors perform work,
if not for the safety of the customer then for their own safety.
They arrived in force to the National Association of Oil Heat Service Managers’ (NAOHSM) annual meeting in Hershey, Pa., from their school, the Burlington County Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Westampton, N.J. Sixteen students with the highest grades ventured out to learn more about the oil heat trade and see the latest equipment and services available to oil heat professionals.
One of the keys to a successful HVAC contracting business is to have a healthy cash flow, that’s no secret. Having a good cash flow with up-to-date cash receivables can make or break even the most well-run businesses.
Learning the HVAC trade is a process, not just a quick study of textbooks and some lab work - and not something that can be done overnight. That’s the logic behind Lennox Industries’ “Build-A-Tech” (BAT) program, which is available to service technicians who want to include continuous education in their careers.
Emerson Climate Technologies has announced that two of its
plants - in Hartselle, Ala., and Sidney, Ohio - have been ranked in the top 10
of suppliers for Taylor Co., a division of Carrier.
This article deals with low ambient head pressure controls
containing charged domes. Their function is to keep a proper condensing
pressure at the metering device for proper feeding of the evaporator. This is
the second of a two-part series that began in the May 7 issue.
Owners of commercial refrigeration systems containing 50
pounds of CFC or HCFC refrigerants are required by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to repair refrigerant leaks when the leak rate equals or exceeds
35 percent of the total system charge over a one-year period.
Compressor burnouts can impact an entire HVACR system, including condensers and coils. But such burnouts have a number of myths attached to them. Burnouts inevitably involve acid. It’s the acid and how to handle it that propagates these myths.
Luvata, formerly known as Outokumpu Copper Products, Middlesex, U.K., acquired a 55 percent majority ownership of AST ElectroFin Inc., Louisville, Ky., a provider of corrosion protection and durability solutions for fin and tube heat exchangers.