Dan Holohan

Everything you ever wanted to know about steam heating in one easy-to-understand book. There, that's as straight as I can put it. I spent five years researching The Lost Art of Steam Heating, and believe me, it was a labor of love. Those were the days when I first met the Dead Men. I found them waiting in old bookstores all across America. They sat on dusty shelves and called down to me. "Psst," t

You a homeowner? Got steam heat? Tired of the uneven heat, the squirting air vents, the high fuel bills, the things that go bump in the night? If so, then this book’s for you! For more than 30 years, I've studied the steam and the work of the “Dead Men” (those are the folks who put all this stuff in). I know these systems inside and out, and I think you'll like my plain-English way of explaining i

I wrote this book to describe the beautiful workings of hydronic heating systems and I tried to use words that made the subject spring to life in a visual way. It's been one of my best-selling books for years. I kept the drawings simple. Even if you've never worked with hydronics before, you'll be able to follow these drawings. The first part deals with boiler-room piping and explains how you can

Most of the buildings you go into are older than you are, right?Yeah, me too. America is a heating museum. And most of the heating systems in those older buildings have gone through lots of changes over the years, some of them painful changes. Many of these systems went in before we knew as much as we know today about hot-water heating.So let's talk about how Classic Hydron

When it comes to saving money on heating, old steam systems are delicious low-hanging fruit. There is so much you can do to make them better, and most of what you do won’t cost a fortune. - Dan HolohanThere are many steam heating systems in service today, and they'll be around for some time to come. It's not that easy (or inexpensive) to rip out a steam heating system and start anew, and that's wh

I wrote this book for people who prefer plain-English explanations of how things work. You won’t find much math in this book. No formulas. No mumbo-jumbo. What you will find are simple words of ordinary conversation, and a lot of very easy-to-follow drawings relating to hydronic radiant heating. There are also stories – lots of them! I like to tell stories about the things I’ve seen as I’ve travel

I'm a saver. For years, I jotted down things I came across in old books that I thought I could use when I was troubleshooting an old steam or hot-water heating system. I kept these notes in my "work wallet," an old leather billfold I carried in my jacket pocket. My daughters used to make fun of the work wallet because, after a while, it started to look like a leather-bound diary by Lewis and Clark

How Come? is an outstanding reference book for troubleshooting and learning more about hydronic heating. It is written in Q&A format and covers gravity systems, indirect radiation, diverter tee systems, loop systems, radiant heating, hot water zones taken off of steam boilers, and more. It's filled with more than 600 questions and dozens of easy-to-follow illustrations.

After 46 years in the heating industry, Dan Holohan is retiring from teaching, but not before imparting some wisdom on his daughter, Erin, as she takes over the family business. In his 374-page memoir, What Hydronics Taught Holohan, Dan shares entertaining stories and knowledge he has gained throughout his career as a manufacturers' rep, writer, teacher, and founder of HeatingHelp.com. Much like i

I was trying to help a friend with a steam-heating problem. He told me what the trouble was and I found myself going down a list of things that might cause that problem. There must have been a dozen possible causes on my list. I cautioned him to check each one before moving on to the next because when you don't know what's causing a problem, you can't discount any of the possible causes. "The toug

Charlie Molloy is an old-school traveling salesman who loves people and airport bars because he will never see those people again. He is a master of The Chat. Lately, though, he doesn't understand how people can take out a phone in the middle of a conversation they're having with him to check their social networks. He doesn't understand it so much that the young people at his company

Dan Holohan has been studying the steam-heating systems in older American buildings since 1970. In 1992, he wrote the predecessor to this book, The Lost Art of Steam Heating, which has gone through dozens of printings and sold tens of thousands of copies in every U.S. state and Canada. With this book, Dan is revisiting a subject he loves to add all that he’s learned during the 25 years since The L

In 1996, a couple of nice guys approached me about writing a monthly column for Contractor magazine. I asked what they wanted me to write about and they said they’d love to hear me tell some good stories about contractors and what happened to them along the way. I could even make some parts up if it helped the story along. Who could say no to that? Anyway, they kept me around for 67 issues until a

Each morning, for forty years, Dominic Murphy has taken a walk through his neighborhood. The path is the same, but the people change and Dominic is a silent witness to their secrets hidden in plain sight. Then one day, a heart-wrenching loss changes his course forever.Tim Tu is a successful radiologist who is haunted by a diagnosis. In an effort to escape it all, he takes a trip to Hawaii and meet

If you're replacing a steam boiler, there's only one right way to size that boiler, and that's to measure the radiators. If you're replacing a hot-water boiler, you'll do a heat-loss calculation on the building as it is today, but it also pays to measure the radiation to see if you can reduce the water's temperature and save fuel. The challenge, though, is that it's often difficult to find the rat

the mechanics of steam heating

A heartwarming and clever story, Emma’s Way explores the jaggedly complex and beautiful mosaic of family relationships. Henry Fletcher is a former tile worker who spent his life turning pieces of ceramic and porcelain into art for people he didn’t like. The work came together beautifully, but his relationships always seemed disjointed, including those with his wife and son. Now retired and widowed

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