Assembling prior columns, updating older information, along with some new content for the four eBooks has been an interesting review of my 48-years as a mechanical contractor. It also reveals my progression from black hair to mostly gray — marking the passage of time!
Looking back, it seems heating was in my future from very early on, and starting at the advanced age of 6, I was allowed to tag along with my Pop-Pop who owned a Westinghouse appliance store. Not only did Roy H. Gorman service the appliances, TVs and radios sold in his store, he also installed new electrical services and boilers. Saint Claire, Pennsylvania, was in the heart of the anthracite coal region, and their home, as well as his customers’ homes, were heated with coal-fired boilers.