Podcast Episodes

Looking past the First Thing & Facial (Hair) Profiling w/ Todd Liles

Todd Liles of Service Excellence Training joins the podcast. He talks about techs who shouldn't be on commission, how to make the most of your career, and facial hair profiling.

Todd's skillset was m…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Advanced Evacuation w/ Jim Bergmann

Jim Bergmann returns to the HVAC School podcast to cover some advanced topics in evacuation, including rig setups and triple evacuation.

To increase the speed of evacuation, you need two large-diamet…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Using ZoomLock Every Day w/ Brent Ridley

In this episode, Brent Ridley talks about the flame-free ZoomLock fittings and why he is using them for almost everything to replace brazing. These are tools from Parker, and they can give you leak-f…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

How to Perform a Leak Detection on a Low Pressure Chiller w/ Jeff Neiman

Jeff Neiman returns to the HVAC School podcast to explain how we can perform leak detection on a low-pressure chiller. Jeff works on systems with glycol loops or other forms of secondary fluids, whic…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Special Episode - The Launch of an HVAC Industry Changing App w/ Jim Bergmann

In this episode of the podcast, Jim Bergmann talks about the launch date of the measureQuick (MQ) app, what it will do, why he made it, who it is for, and why it's different than anything else that c…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Condensate Switch Codes and Practices w/ James Bowman

James Bowman of Rectorseal returns to the podcast to discuss condensate switch codes and some best practices to comply with the codes.

The humble condensate switch actually has installation standards…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Bonus - Being On Call w/ Les Fork

Les Fork returns to the podcast to discuss on-call rotations. He explains why being on call is necessary and how you can make the most of it.

We are supposed to be on call for the sake of customer se…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Measuring Air Flow - Air Density and Direct Air Flow Measurement Part 2 w/ Jim Bergmann

In this podcast episode, Jim Bergmann continues talking about standard air, air density, and mass vs. volume as well as some other methods of "directly" measuring airflow. It gets pretty deep.

Airflo…

Published on 8 years, 5 months ago

Bonus - Impressions From a Week as a Tech from a College Intern w/ Bill Spohn Jr.

Bill Spohn Jr. is a college intern working towards his business degree, but he took a week to see what it is like to work as an HVAC tech. He shares his impressions on this podcast. Bill is the son o…

Published on 8 years, 5 months ago

Measuring Air Flow - Static / Capacity & ECM Motors Part 1 w/ Jim Bergmann

In this two-part podcast series, Jim Bergmann talks about measuring airflow in HVAC systems. He covers a wide range of airflow measurement instrumentation and readings.

In this first episode, Jim cov…

Published on 8 years, 5 months ago