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February 2021

Volume: 21
Edition: 2
The Right Size Showroom: A plumbing center doesn’t always have to be plush to get the job done.
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Feature

How To Plan For A Curbless Shower Installation

Keep four essentials in mind for this increasingly popular bathroom trend that combines style and assessibility.
February 1, 2021
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There’s no curbing the growing enthusiasm for curbless showers among leading designers, homeowners and commercial facility owners.
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Feature

The Right-Sized Showroom

A plumbing center doesn’t always have to be plush to get the job done.
February 1, 2021
Steve Smith
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Benjamin Plumbing’s downsized decorative plumbing showroom still gets remodeling jobs done.
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Feature

An Inventor’s Dream

The ultimate outdoor accessory manufacturer mixes fire and water.
February 1, 2021
John Vastyan
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Patrick Schatz is a restless inventor. Imagine, if you will, a young Einstein who’s infatuated with improving machinery function or inventing a device to do something no one else has previously created.
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Feature

Testing and Certification for Personal Hygiene Devices

As these bidet-like products boast a healthier, more hygienic lifestyle, make sure the models you recommend are third-party certified.
February 1, 2021
Ken Wijaya
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Lately, social media users have likely swiped past numerous advertisements for bidet sprayers without bidet — we called them personal hygiene devices — featuring such promises as “a healthier life with less toilet paper.”
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Good Tidings and Cheer

A look at just some of the PHCPPros who helped provide for those in need during the holiday season.
February 1, 2021
Steve Smith
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Plumbing and heating professional help out those in need during the holiday season.
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Feature

When Does Digital Mixing Make Sense?

Scale durability, temperature creep prevention and automatic thermal disinfection are a few reasons to use DMVs to control DHW temps.
February 1, 2021
Kevin Freidt
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A thermostatic mixing valve is a workhorse. Used for domestic hot water temperature control, they have been around for decades.
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Marketing Building Momentum

Become a Household Name Through Public Relations

Earned media opportunities are an important PR tool for setting your home service brand apart from the competition.
February 1, 2021
Heather Ripley
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Wondering how to become a household name as a home service contractor in your market? Being in the news is one of the best ways to do that.
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Contractor Stories

No More Dirty Water

New heating technology changed the way we think about H2O in our hydronic systems.
February 1, 2021
Stephen Minnich
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Back in the day, most of us believed getting black water from boilers wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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Alternative Energy

35 Generations in the Making

What is next for the Department of Interior?
February 1, 2021
Max Rohr
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How does the Department of Interior as a whole affect energy exploration?
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Business Uncomplicated

Smooth Answers to Rough Questions

Help your call takers and service techs by scripting out responses for these uncomfortable inquiries.
February 1, 2021
Ellen Rohr
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In my early days as the plumber’s wife, I fielded a few rough questions from customers.
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Contractor Profit Advantage

Calculating a Profitable Selling Price

To measure your true costs, determine your operational and proportionate costs as they pertain to each task.
February 1, 2021
Richard DiToma
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The contract price of any PHC task should be calculated in the estimated average time spent on labor and overhead, blended with the average material used and the desired profit margin.
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The Future is Now

Radiant Ceiling Panels and the Move to Low-Carbon Buildings

The technology offers flexibility in design, occupant comfort, quiet operation and energy savings.
February 1, 2021
BF Nagy
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In the past few years, a growing segment of construction professionals in North America has led the move into greener buildings.
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Geothermal HVAC

Drinking Water Energy: The Time is Now

This and other fluid exchange technologies provide real solutions that play a vital part in converting our building stock over to heat pumps.
February 1, 2021
Jay Egg
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When we are talking about water energy, there is another type of hydropower that has to do with using water movement to transfer energy in the form of BTUs.
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Geothermal HVAC

How New York's State Capital Switched Off Natural Gas

Four years of combined efforts to stop installation of gas turbines for clean, surface water coupled electric chillers have helped to change policy in New York.
February 8, 2021
Jay Egg
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The Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York, was the vision and legacy of New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.
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