My old mentor used to scream, "You can't cool what you can't touch, and you can't heat what you can't dry!" He was a crusty old tin knocker who spent…
The Thermodynamic Nightmare of the Crawl SpaceYou wake up in mid-January, swing your feet out of bed, and the moment your soles touch the hardwood, a jolt of pure arctic…
You crawl under a house on a freezing Tuesday morning in the dead of January, expecting a simple fix, and instead you find a swamp. Up north, where the ground…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your Smart Ventilation System is Smarter Than Your Smart ThermostatLet me tell you a secret that thirty years in the trade has beaten into my skull:…
The Myth of the Attic: Why Your Feet Are Freezing While Your Head Is HotI remember my old mentor, a grizzled tin knocker named Gus who’d been sealing plenums since…
My old mentor, a grizzled master tech named 'Lefty' Miller, used to whack me on the back of my head with a nut driver if I ever looked at a…
The Physics of the Floor: Why Your Feet Are FreezingMy old mentor used to scream at me until he was purple in the face, 'You can't cool what you can't…
The Icy Feet Syndrome: Why Your Crawl Space is a Thermodynamic Black HoleEvery winter, the phone calls start the same way. A homeowner is sitting on their couch, the thermostat…
The Physics of the Floor: Why Your Feet Are FreezingYou’ve cranked the thermostat to 74 degrees, the furnace is screaming, and your chest feels warm, but your toes are currently…
The Day the Sales Tech Almost WonI followed a guy last Tuesday who called himself a 'Comfort Specialist.' That is trade-speak for a salesman in a clean polo shirt who…