Shameless self-promotion 😎

Tinman

https://heatinghelp.com/find-a-contractor/detail/minnich-hydronic-consulting-and-design

For all your hydronic consulting and design needs.

*To be clear, I am no longer in the contracting business.

clammy

There’s nothing shameless about it . Wish you the best of luck in your endeavors . They could not do better then having some one who knows what there looking at and the experience in the field instead of a office to make the right suggestions on what should be done and the next course of action . I see lots of companies who shamelessly advertise everywhere only to have unskilled mechanics and service techs come in do nothing and sell service contracts and put labels on valves and that’s about it. I’m quite sure they will be getting the straight poop when deal w you Steve ,best of luck on the smart end of the wrench Peace and good luck clammy

Tinman

Thank you @clammy! The “smart end of the wrench”, I love that.

clammy

We all know to well the other end of that wrench well enough to know the value of having a brain attached to it ,it seems to end knuckle heading having one but it seems few have the ability to make them work together . I hope it works well for you and your clients they will only know your value when every body else fails usually cause there work ethics are directly attached to there’s check books and a in and out mentality which in the mechanical world usually are not the best situations for dealing w re occurring issues .peace and good luck clammy

exqheat

I agree. Many times when I comment I am accused of selling. Frankly, how will folks find out about available solutions other wise. Frustrated.

Larry Weingarten

Hi, A teacher and a salesman may use the same words, it’s their motives that are different. I teach and if it becomes paying work, good. But my goal is always to help. Making a living has never been a problem this way.

Yours, Larry
Hope this doesn’t seem too far off track

Tinman

I agree, Larry. I love what I’m doing. I’ve always loved paying It forward too, because so many helped me when I coming up, and still do. The education never ends or, at least, shouldn’t.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

That sounds great, Steve. Who are some of your clients? Architects? DIYers? Contractors? All of the above?

How do you get your name out other than on heatinghelp? I've been getting a lot of business off Yelp even though I don't pay for it. Contractor locators on boiler websites help as well, but that's more for service and repair. Word of mouth is the best way.

Now that you've given up your wrenches for another set of tools, what helps with your design work? LoopCAD? AutoCAD? Siggy's Design Studio?

Tinman

Thanks Alan. I love it.

Contractors, manufacturers, supply houses, DIYs, and large energy companies. It’s been a little bit of everything. Some of it is annual contracts and others job by job.

I have residential and commercial Elite Load Calc software, Uponor for radiant loads, Siggy’s software including HydroSketch and others. I also still like to draw by hand and can do smaller load calcs manually.

I have a presence on LinkedIn, Instagram, and HH, of course. Mostly it’s by word of mouth. Angie’s or others like that don’t interest me.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

Very clean and easy to read. Suitable for framing.

Is that a pressure drop gauge around the circulators? I love it! Who makes those assemblies?

Tinman

I’m putting together a hydronic system for training purposes. This was the first rendition but I’ve changed it a few times already.

I put together the pressure gauges in parallel with the circs. I also put a permanent gas gauge in the gas pipe and will have a permanent thermometer in the flue pipe.

I’m geeking it out completely. It’s mine so why not, right?

Tinman

And no more high temp zones. The highest SWT will be 100F.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

Hot Rod turned me on to these:

https://www.calefactio.com/en/product/δp-pump-flanges/

Tinman

Those are likely more practical, but the potential margin of error is less with a single gauge.