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"You wouldn't even know a diamond if you held it in your hand...." Steely Dan

When the vast majority of Plumbing & Heating contractors do marginal work, at best, we that don't, have to justify ourselves to THAT Lowest Common Denominator....very frustrating, demoralizing & aggravating. Mad Dog

Given the OP's comments, @JohnNY , I'd say you dodged a bullet on that one. None of us need clients of that calibre.

I'd say the big reason for the popularity of forced air is that air conditioning is essentially free once you've installed the ductwork.

The electrician who my father used to hire to wire our boilers was trying to retire. Every time he showed up he'd try to teach me more about the wiring and controls of the boiler. More than anything, he left me with this, which is a little less true today than it was then but it still mostly works:
Bring an interruptible source of power to the boiler and connect the 120v wires. "After the power source, everything is either a switch or a load." He went on to say something like the switches (operating controls and safeties) are the ride and the load (gas valve) is the destination. But it was that line that gave me the A-HA moment and I've been building on that ever since.

You can't save everyone.

Measure twice, cut once.

Also, why is there never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to go back and do it over again?