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EDITOR'S NOTE

Positive Story Time

You have more than a year of pandemic fatigue. My prescription: a heart-warming story in the sheet metal industry.
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Austin Keating
June 7, 2021
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This paragraph is the only place you’ll read the phrase “COVID-19” in the entire issue of the June 2021 SNIPS Magazine. And that’s intentional. For more than a year, the pandemic has dominated conversations in the sheet metal industry and beyond. And in that chorus, we’ve left several stories fly under the radar.


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SERVICES

Adding Duct Cleaning to Your Existing HVAC Business

Since HVAC contractors install and regularly service residential and commercial HVAC units, it only makes sense that those same HVAC contractors should be the ones to clean them.
David Hart
December 14, 2020
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Adding duct cleaning services to your existing HVAC company can be an extremely simple, inexpensive and very rewarding process.


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2021
EDITOR'S NOTE

For HVAC Contractors, the Longest Year Is Far From Over

Spoiler alert: Next year doesn’t have to be a bad year for the heating and cooling industry.
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Emell Derra Adolphus
December 14, 2020
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HVAC company owners would do well to start diversifying their revenue streams with services like duct cleaning and service support. 


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AHR Expo
PERSPECTIVE

HVAC Contractors Can Learn From Canceling the AHR Expo

Allow me to explain.
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Emell Derra Adolphus
October 31, 2020
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HVAC contractors and sheet metal workers should take advantage of the AHR Expo being canceled by strengthening online operations. 


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Longtime HVAC industry icon Standard Tinsmith and Roofer Supply on staying in business

The New York sheet metal supplier is readying his company for the next generation of leadership.
April 8, 2020
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When it comes to the family business, Joel Fishkind shares an uncomplicated approach that has sustained the company for many years.


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How Rossi Hardware changed HVAC airflow

An interview with company founder Vic Petrossian.
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Emell Derra Adolphus
December 8, 2019
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An interview with Rossi Hardware founder Vic Petrossian on how one product changed HVAC airflow. 


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Joel Fishkind of Standard Tinsmith and Roofer Supply
INDUSTRY ICON

At the helm of a legendary sheet metal shop in Brooklyn, New York

Joel Fishkind prepares his sheet metal family business for a fourth act.
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Emell Derra Adolphus
November 21, 2019
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At the helm of Standard Tinsmith and Roofer Supply for 50 years, Joel Fishkind now prepares his century-old family sheet metal business for a fourth act.


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Bill Bradford
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How Bill Bradford became a legend at Ductmate Industries Inc.

Bill Bradford’s sheet metal career is the embodiment of the phrase “standing on the shoulders of giants.” Only, in this story, Bradford is one of the giants.
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Emell Derra Adolphus
October 4, 2019
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BILL BRADFORD IS A VETERAN OF THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY IN MORE WAYS THAN MOST. Born and raised in North Side Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the city’s “Steel City” renaissance, Bradford graduated from high school June 1955 and immediately joined the Air Force that July. “I was 17 so my parents had to sign documents to get me in,” he remembers.


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Knowing the sheet metal machinery in your shop is crucial

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Emell Derra Adolphus
April 3, 2019
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There are any number of good reasons NOT to upgrade your sheet metal machinery: timing, cost, confusion … cost. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” should never be one of them — especially after reading this issue of SNIPS.  


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Women have a future in HVAC industry

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Emell Derra Adolphus
March 1, 2019
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THE MOST OBVIOUS ANSWER TO A MANPOWER SHORTAGE IN THE SHEET METAL INDUSTRY IS ‘WOMANPOWER.’ BUT IS YOUR SHOP READY TO LEAN IN? 


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