Why HVAC Companies Need to Focus on Reputation Marketing Reputation marketing is the process of using your company’s reputation to market your business to new leads. It is also about acquiring and amplifying positive brand content to use your reputation as a promotional asset in marketing campaigns. It combines elements of…
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Why HVAC Companies Need to Focus on Reputation Marketing
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Indoor Air Monitoring To Increase IAQ
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast Indoor Air Monitoring To Increase IAQ Preface: This article with embedded podcasts was designed to educate contractors on indoor air quality and indoor air quality monitoring. Please use this article as a tool to educate your customers, help them stay…
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Geothermal Heat Pump Basics
Matthew Showers is an HVAC service technician, performing work in both the residential and commercial fields. His specialty is in inverter and communicating systems. Follow Matt on Instagram Many of you in the industry have heard of geothermal heat pumps: you may have also heard of the many potential benefits they offer,…
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Cracked Heat Exchangers In Furnaces: What Should We Do?
Matthew Showers is an HVAC service technician, performing work in both the residential and commercial fields. His specialty is in inverter and communicating systems. Follow Matt on Instagram As heating season gets underway for many of us, we will inevitably find heat exchanger cracks in furnaces, whether in someone’s home or…
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The Refrigeration Cycle Explained
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast Refrigeration Cycle Explained To set this up properly, I really should bring up the first time I put some lackadaisical thought into refrigeration or air conditioning. I was a young teen walking by the side…
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Industrial Refrigeration - Oil Loss In Screw Compressors
Joshua Rees is an industrial refrigeration technician, father of six beautiful children and a husband to his beautiful wife Jessica. Joshua has been in the industry since sixteen and started his career in the commercial HVAC/R industry. During a conversation with some of my peers, the subject was brought up about oil loss in screw…
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Troubleshooting Gas Fired Ignition Problems
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast This short podcast also covers this burner repair in detail The Problem This heating tip was generated from some on site aggravation while repairing a burner. During the initial preventative maintenance, it was discovered that the 1st…
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A General Guide To HVAC/R Troubleshooting
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast A General Guide To HVAC/R Troubleshooting This is a general guide to HVAC/R troubleshooting. We won't be getting into specifics that involve local codes, OEM procedures and guidelines or in-depth analysis of things like static…
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Installing Service Valves For Self Contained Reach-In Coolers and Freezers
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast When working on small, self contained reach in coolers and freezers, you’ll notice many of them are not equipped with service access valves for testing, evacuation and recovery. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot if…
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The Science Of Evacuation And On Site Pull Down
Gary McCreadie is an HVAC tech, the creator of hvacknowitall.com and the HVAC Know It All Podcast The science on how we pull an evacuation on air conditioning and refrigeration systems has changed over the years. Back in the day, technicians would purge refrigerant through the system to remove air, moisture…
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Alternative Refrigerants For The HVAC Industry
Matthew Showers is an HVAC service technician, performing work in both the residential and commercial fields. His specialty is in inverter and communicating systems. Follow Matt on Instagram As environmental regulations change, manufacturers of HVAC equipment are being forced to find refrigerants that are not only environmentally safe, but also perform…
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Converged Systems: A Brief Overview
Matthew Showers is an HVAC service technician, performing work in both the residential and commercial fields. His specialty is in inverter and communicating systems. Follow Matt on Instagram As the world gravitates to higher efficient equipment, manufacturers are looking to create solutions that are both effective, but also practical from a…
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How To Stop Turning Wrenches (And Grow Your Business)
Patrick Lange is an experienced HVAC specific business broker with Business Modification Group. Most HVAC businesses start with an ambitious and talented technician that dared to take the leap and open their own shop. Somewhere along the way, they will get frustrated and realize their income is capped by the hours…
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Carrier RTU Troubleshooting
It was a warm August day, myself and my co-worker were digging into some PM work. We found one of the Carrier RTUs without power and the breaker tripped.
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HVAC Service Or Install, How I Chose
"This one time, at band camp," is a famous line you may remember from the movie American Pie. Although the narrative, as it pertains to this article goes as such, "this one time, in residential".
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Adaptive vs Fixed Expansion Valves
Expansion valves are used to inject refrigerant into the evaporator of refrigeration and AC/HP systems at a condition that will allow the refrigerant to absorb heat.
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Solenoid Valve Sizing
To obtain reliable performance with solenoid valves on refrigeration or air conditioning systems demands careful consideration of application requirements during the selection process.
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Air Balancing
Air balancing is an important step in HVAC commissioning. Every forced air system should be balanced upon initial startup, and some engineers or city officials may demand it before final approval.
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Changeover from Cooling to Heating
It’s that time of year again when the clocks fall back and so does the temperature outside. There are a number of items that should be inspected when the building is being changed over from cooling to heating. The main heating and cooling components such as chillers/cooling towers and heating…
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Non Condensables In A Refrigeration Circuit
Most of my hard core learning came in the early days of my career. I was thrown into many situations I probably had no business being involved in and like most young apprentices, there were more than a few royal f@#k ups. I remember vividly, my first encounter with non…
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