Anyone who says they wouldn’t change a thing on the hydronic systems they’ve designed or installed over the last decade is either so oblivious to changes in technology that they don’t know any better, so egotistical they can’t accept that improvement of their work is possible, or so foolish they don’t care what they’re missing out on.

We learned from the pandemic that education is available in many more places than just at live seminars. 

Whether designing a residential or commercial system, there are several lessons to be learned from Siegenthaler, a.k.a. “Siggy,” including thermal considerations, piping, heat pump technologies, panel radiators, slab heating, controls and ECM circulators in order to provide the ultimate goals: Comfort, high efficiency and a happy customer.

Part of running any business is looking ahead and trying to read the “tea leaves” that are relevant to that business. 

I have a photograph taken in Levittown, New York, sometime in the late 1940s. 

My dear, sweet 95-year-old mother-in-law fell and cracked several vertebrae last year. A few days later, she was having extreme pain and her doctor told us we should take her to the ER at one of our two local hospitals. 

It is a difficult time to be discussing the status of the radiant and hydronics industry (and for that matter the entire construction industry). 

A client asks a heating contractor to set up a floor heating system for a new 7,500 square foot machine shop.

The Belanus residence was started in 2013. Our company, Arndt & Son Plumbing, began our work in June 2013, and completed the project in December 2014. 

If you have a steam boiler you’re also going to have a pressuretrol.