The tiny tale I’m about to share with you got me thinking about noisy radiators. 

Our daughter, Erin, bought our business in 2016 when Marianne and I retired. 

Once upon a time, when a manufacturers rep was foolish enough to hire me and teach me enough to be dangerous, I suggested to my boss that he would be very smart if he allowed me to do a seminar for contractors about steam heating. 

We had a warehouse break-in over the weekend when I was young and working inside sales (read, order-taking) for a manufacturers rep on the Isle of Long. 

It took Jimmy about a half-hour to realize that the homeowner hadn’t understood a word he had said.

“Just curious. What gets under your skin these days when it comes to your local wholesalers?”

Very few Americans are, but that was the title of the short, silent film I watched on YouTube. The United States Bureau of Mines Department of Commerce made it during the 1920s, and it’s filled with drama and also an annoying surprise.

A contractor friend decided to take on a part-time job teaching at a local technical school. He had never done this before.

Short answer: It sure does, but not in the way you may think.

First, a quick chronology: I started in the heating industry in 1970 because my father worked for a heating manufacturers rep and he told me this was the best business to be in if I never wanted to be out of work.