More than 900 plumbing, heating and cooling contractors raced into Indianapolis for PHCC’s annual CONNECT conference.

Though smart home technologies have been around for quite some time, it is only over the past five years or so that the market has really taken off.

There appears to be two kinds of people in this world. There are the whiners who believe the world owes them and the winners who believe they owe it to themselves to give the world their best.  Which are you?

What is the most difficult conversation most of your front line team members have with your prospects and clients? Price. What is the number one objection your sales team shares with you regarding why they don’t close more of their opportunities? Price. What is the one psychological blocker that must be addressed before any sale can be made?

A lot of the water we use comes into contact with underground limestone, which is rich in minerals like calcium and magnesium.

The days of folded paper maps and crank car windows are long gone. The cars of today practically drive themselves with features like park assist, lane detection and rearview cameras.

When our daughters were small, we would wake them before dawn on Thanksgiving morning and drive into Manhattan to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from a spot on Central Park West, just across the street from The Dakota (the apartment building where John Lennon lived and died).

Because they generate heat intermittently, renewable energy heat sources such as solar thermal collectors and pellet boilers require thermal storage tanks. So do storage-based systems using off-peak electricity, or micro combined heat and power (MCHP) generation.

Welcome to the winter edition of the Radiant Comfort Report! This second edition of the RCR has a great piece by Dave Yates — take some time to check it out on page 8. By the time you read this, the RPA will have participated in its second year of co-sponsoring the PHCC CONNECT event in Indianapolis in October.