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HVAC
Ellis Prach has worked in the business for over 40 years. He has owned and operated his own successful heating business and tours the nation regularly delivering seminars...Visit the Furnace Inspection Book and Seminars/Courses Website
If you have a house that was built between 1983 and 1995 and the furnace is in the attic, there is a very good chance that Consolidated Industries manufactured this furnace. They were sold through many different brand names but...Visit the Consolidated Furnaces Website
The HVAC industry has changed tremendously in the recent past , providing much more efficient HVAC systems operation. Part of insuring safe, reliable and efficient performance requires testing and measuring to verify the equipment is operating ...Visit the Baharach Training Website
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Rural Area Heating Systems
By John Mueller, CRI
I recently purchased a vacation home in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. It is a five bedroom, two-bath wood frame ranch style home with an extended family room and a full basement, secluded . . . keep reading
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Residential Oil Tanks
By Mike Hatch, President of Boston Environmental
There are over ten million homes in the northern portion of the United States heated by oil. The vast majority of these homes have an aboveground fuel oil storage tank. Therefore, thousands of times each week home inspectors are inspecting homes that have an oil tank in the customer's basement or backyard . . . keep reading
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Steam & Hot Water Boiler Systems
By Greg Wayman, CRI, Foundation-2-Rooftop, Inc
Made out of cast iron, boiler systems were made to withstand the test of time. Nicknamed after battleships for their similarity in material, strength, and durability, it is not uncommon to find an old boiler system still going strong 50 years down the road. A boiler's design can be overwhelming at first, but once you understand how they operate, inspecting a boiler system becomes a whole lot easier. . . . keep reading
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Underground Fuel Oil Tanks - A Personal Perspective
By Ed Blazek, CRI
While the evaluation and condition of buried oil tanks is excluded in my pre-inspection agreement, I have always noted the presence of them on my inspection reports, whether they are currently in use or abandoned, and recommend further evaluation by qualified licensed personnel to determine . . . keep reading
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Furnace Inspections
By Ellis Prach, Heat Exchanger Experts, Inc
What a tragedy when you read that a homeowner has been hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning, is comatose or has actually died from a faulty furnace heat exchanger. Another tragedy is when an educated home inspector gives his customer a proper diagnosis on a potentially dangerous furnace and then an HVAC company comes in for a second opinion and informs the homeowner that the furnace is fine and should last another ten years. What happens then? Being in the heating business for 45 years, I have been there and can tell you first hand what happens. . . . keep reading
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A Closer Inspection of Oil Heat
Many real estate agents and home inspectors have a knee-jerk reaction to clients who are pondering what to do with an old oil heating system: "Why don't you pull it out and put in a new gas one?" . . . keep reading
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Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind
Jay Schnoor
Buried oil tanks at the I-80 Fill-er-up and Keep on Truckin' Diesel Fuel - Gasoline - Kerosene Truck Stop are regulated by a myriad of Federal and State regulations. . . . keep reading
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