My old mentor used to scream at me until he was purple in the face, 'You can't cool what you can't touch!' I was a green helper back then, shivering…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your Attic is Winning the WarI remember my old mentor, a man who smelled perpetually of PVC glue and burnt capacitors, screaming at me in a…
The Myth of the Magic FoamMy old mentor, a man who smelled like burnt ozone and cheap coffee, used to scream at me in the middle of sub-zero Minnesota winters:…
The Phantom Load: Why Your AC is Fighting a War It Can’t WinI remember my old mentor, Pete, a guy who had spent forty years breathing in insulation dust and…
The Thermodynamics of Wasted Energy: A Mentor’s LessonMy old mentor, a man who could smell a cracked heat exchanger from the driveway, used to scream at me, 'You can't heat…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your High-Velocity System is UnderperformingI remember my old mentor, a man who had more soot in his lungs than a 19th-century chimney sweep, grabbing me by…
My old mentor used to scream at me in the back of a van while we were idling in -10°F weather: 'You can't condition what you can't touch!' At the…
The Airflow Manifesto: Why Your High-Efficiency Unit is Failing YouLook, I’ve spent more time in 140-degree attics than most people have spent in their living rooms. My old mentor, a…
The Physics of the InvisibleMy old mentor used to scream at me in the middle of a frozen January crawlspace, 'You can't cool what you can't touch, and you can't…
My old mentor, a grizzled tin knocker named Sully who had spent more time in crawlspaces than in the sunlight, used to scream at me whenever I looked at a…