The small damage is usually something like a drippy relief valve.

Bigger damage is someone leaving the faucet on, and rushing out the door.

More common when the parents shout

“Did you make yet?!”

The worst I saw was mold damage from an indirect water heater coil rupturing.

The water heater and piping in your home runs anywhere between 40-60psi. If you have less than 40psi, I apologize.  We should get that corrected. If you have more than 60psi, lucky you.

Consider donating to those with not enough water pressure

In any case, the rupture. The boiler loop that passes through the heater to heat the water in the tank up indirectly (aka the reason its called an indirect water heater), runs at a max pressure of 30psi.

So now here’s what happened.

The water from the tank (40-60psi) pushed through the little itty bitty hole into the boiler water which relief valve relieves itself at 30psi. The people had not only mold from water but mold from hot steam on every surface the steam can cling to.

It’s one of those houses that I shake my head as we pass every few days and say, “What if they had a Moen Flo?”

On the surface, a moon Flo is simple.  I bet you can install one. It’s like arts and crafts.

See the photo of it installed, and then see the video from Moen!

Click here for the video

Thank you for reading,

Your comfort specialist,

Moe

Everyone has their own view on balanced. To some it’s whole wheat pizza and granola bars.

To others, balanced is a diet full of greens, protein, and sweet potatoes.

One thing we can all agree on is that balanced room comfort are rooms that heat and cool at the same rate.

How many times do I hear that there is a rule of thumb to follow.

You wouldn’t follow a rule of thumb for your foundation or thickness of the beams in your house

So why do you accept random measures based off the Stone Age era?

Heres a video what we do to every home or building before modifying or installing equipment.

Click Here!

We don’t guess. We calculate

Your comfort specialist,

Moe H

Four lettered words came out of my mouth after seeing how poorly the wiring, dampers, and overall system build was in a home that cost the client (in my guesstimate) 4-6mil dollars!

When you build you must think for the future. 
Here are 8 tips to keep your home easily serviced.
1. Keep good records which thermostats operate with which equipment. 
2. Keep good records where the equipment is located.
3. Install equipment where it can easily be accessed, serviced, replaced.
4. Make the area well lit. The cost of a light bulb and socket is $7.
5. Provide good stable strong stairs if in an attic.
6. Place the equipment where the service personnel won’t have to go through areas of your home that can be damaged or areas you would like to remain private. 
7. Keep runners or drop cloths to lay put so employees even with shoe covers or clean feet don’t leave debris or scratch your floors.
8. Dont offer cold drinks, bring them and leave them. No one turns down a cold water on a hot day.

And bonus for taking the time to read.

• Make sure your home has a sewer clean-out outside the home.
• Know where your water main, gas main, and electrical breaker box are.
• Preferable- make access to your mechanical room through the outside of the home
• When possible, place mechanicals in or near your garage. This leaves an easy walk out to the street when large equipment has to be replaced.

I did. I still do.

There’s no uniform answer. More money doesn’t mean better work.

Less money doesn’t mean lesser quality work.

So what plays into cost?

-Geographical area. Some areas are more costly to do business. Think city environment over suburbs. Occasionally, it’s not the cost, but just the headache. Or, it’s the traffic. Traffic means less work time. Less work time means less hours of the day to meet the target for the day.

-Overhead. Does your contractor have the manpower, machinery, or tools to get the job done? Perhaps you don’t care if they struggle and use five guys to haul some item as long as the job gets done. Others don’t want the liability of moving the item and someone getting hurt or damaging something along the way.

-Experience. This is the cat’s ass.

Don’t want a cat’s ass? Neither do I, but it’s an old saying. Perhaps you’d rather say the “bees knees”. Experience is what you pay for. Think of a massage. You go for a massage. It could be 20 minutes or it could be for 2hrs. The 20 min massage could be done by a professional masseuse and the 2hr long message could be by someone who gave $5 massages in the mall since leaving masseuse school. 

I would rather someone come to my house and get in and out with the least amount of Googling from their work truck.

So, who would you choose?

We are watching concrete being poured today. It’s like watching a baker make a cake or a florist prepare flowers.

The client spent a significant amount of money to tear up the floor, lower it, level it, insulate it, and have us install Uponor radiant heat tubing.

This is a radiant heat system in a 125ft x 54ft barn. We computer generated the layout and installed it using Creatherm S45 insulated panels. 

The job costs X amount of money regardless of who does it. No matter how free or cheap someone does a job for you, the concrete company costs money, the tubing supplier needs to get paid, and the insulation and wire mesh isn’t free.

So the cost of doing the job is really X+Y. What’s the Y? The Y is the incremental difference between the lowest bidder and the one doing it right.

Cats have 9 lives, but you only have one shot at radiant tubing. That’s before the flooring gets poured or installed. 

Plumbing, heating and cooling services are not commodities. You get what you pay for.

Your Main Man, 

Moe