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Russ King joins us for a short podcast episode about using 3D load and energy calculations with duct design. Russ has developed the Kwik Model 3D software program with the help of his son, Connor.

Kw…

In this short podcast episode, Clifton Beck joins us to talk about Bluon’s free tech support and resources available to technicians and installers.

Clifton has been very in touch with the HVAC techni…

Genry Garcia returns to the podcast to talk about blower doors and why ACH50 may needlessly complicate efforts to tighten a building envelope.

A large element of indoor comfort comes down to controll…

Brandon Marshall, Chemours’s North American marketing manager for thermal and specialized solutions, joins the podcast to discuss refrigerant changes that are coming and how we can prepare for those.…

Chuck Allgood with Chemours joins the podcast to cover the history of refrigerants and discuss what the future might hold.

In the late 1800s, before Freon, the only refrigerants that were used were i…

Andy Holt joins the podcast to discuss the ever-relevant topic of overcoming conflict at work.

Some people end up in conflicts often, so Andy recommends paying attention to how others react to the co…

Matthew and Nick Wavra join the podcast to discuss everything that goes into job estimation in commercial HVAC. Nick has a lot of fieldwork and project management experience, and Matthew has marketin…

In this short podcast episode, Bryan goes over the basic gas furnace sequence of operations. There are a few variations, but the sequence of operations tends to stay consistent across most furnace ty…

Trevor Matthews, the founder of Refrigeration Mentor, returns to the podcast to talk about starting up an internal training program for an HVAC/R company.

In some cases, the best lead technicians don…

In this short podcast, Bryan explains the basics of flame sensing, also known as flame rectification.

Flame sensing/rectification is a form of proving flame. When you can’t prove flame, your furnace …

This podcast episode is a throwback to one of Bryan’s first small business podcasts. In this old episode, Australian electrician and businessman Joshua Nicholls explains how he built a business by fo…

In this short podcast episode, Bryan covers the differences between defrost termination and failsafe. He also covers the basics of defrost in refrigeration applications.

In medium-temp applications…

This podcast episode is a throwback to one of Bryan’s first podcasts about small businesses. Cesar Abeid, former VP of construction camera company Remontech, joined this podcast to discuss the basics…

Bryan discusses impostor syndrome, what it is, and how it may actually be useful for us.

When we feel that we’re frauds and that others wouldn’t like to be led by us if they knew how much we don’t kn…

Amrit Robbins of Axiom comes on the podcast to discuss how we can use data science to transform grocery and cold storage.

Axiom Cloud uses cloud analytics and AI to map data and analyze trends on ref…

In this short podcast, Bryan goes over the basics of superheat and explains why it matters to us.

Superheat is the temperature increase above a substance’s saturation temperature or boiling point. Wh…