Sep 2022
Leading Off: Signing Off
It seems as though this year has gone by very fast, and a lot of events have happened in that time. It doesn’t seem possible that I’m about to pass the reins over to Art Miller, CMS, RCT as the new International President after the vote at the upcoming Annual Business Meeting. I am extremely confident that he will do an excellent job as President, and that he has an extremely competent Board of Directors supporting him.
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Sep 2022
Follow This Step-by-Step Guide to Heating PMs
As a heating professional you know that winter will be here before you know it and you will be performing lots of residential heating startup PMs in the next two months. Following these maintenance guidelines will ensure your customers experience perfect air year-round.
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Sep 2022
Best Practices for Residential Boiler Service
Boilers must be serviced annually— there is no way around it. A boiler that is not properly serviced and maintained will be prone to breakdown or, efficiency and costing the homeowner money. This article will focus on residential service. Commercial building owners tend to be more diligent about boiler service, and they do not do things such as planting shrubbery around intake and exhaust vents to hide them.
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Sep 2022
Furnace Troubleshooting Best Practices
As we hunker down for the cold wind and falling snow of the heating season, it is important to refocus our minds on heating systems and how to work on them. There are countless brands and types of heating equipment in customers’ homes and businesses, and one of the most important things about being a technician is to be able to troubleshoot and repair these systems. In a single day, a technician could service a gravity furnace in the morning and a high efficiency modulating furnace after lunch.
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Sep 2022
Common Mistakes When Troubleshooting Refrigeration Systems
Avoiding mistakes when servicing refrigeration equipment is a vital part of any profitable service company. Not only do mistakes erode the profit margin for a service call, they can also affect your customer base. While it is difficult to eliminate all mistakes, it is possible to minimize the number of mistakes made and eliminate making some relatively common ones. As technicians, we are likely to make a mistake when we rush a task, including the troubleshooting process. Patience is a must when it comes to servicing refrigeration systems
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Sep 2022
Do You Perform CO Testing?
Every heating season around the world challenges users of combustion-based furnaces, boilers, water heaters, space heaters, cooking systems, fireplaces and other fossil-fueled devices. How do we reduce the risks from injury and death in our universal combustion-based culture? HVACR industry members are on the front lines of protection. But, how good are they? It is no secret that poorly installed and maintained combustion systems have and will kill people in time.
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Sep 2022
Test to Discover Duct Disasters

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Sep 2022
RSES News: September 2022 Fall
Read what RSES Chapters and Associations have been doing throughout 2022.
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Sep 2022
Heating Up: In the In-between
As many of you know, many transitions have been occurring behind the scenes, which we have slowly been announcing as the months progress. Headquarters has been extraordinarily busy the past few months. In addition to working on this next digital edition for you, which includes a broad range of heating season preventive maintenance articles for you, we have:
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Jun 2022
The Nitty Gritty of AC Preventive Maintenance
Whether you are fresh out of trade school or a seasoned HVACR veteran, knowing how to complete air conditioning preventive maintenance is a fundamental part of the job. What follows is a bare-bones approach on how to properly deal with each part as you complete the process.
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