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Try to maintain a gross profit average of 45 percent or higher on every job.

You don’t want to see the same A/C job coming back day after day with repeat compressor failures. Fix it right and hop it stays fixed, right? In most cases, a compressor job goes well and the customer is happy for good. What about those times w…

Mitch woke up one Sunday morning thinking about the shop, like usual. But as he read his daily blog from Seth Godin, he realized how would you know if something was going wrong with your service after the customer leaves if they don’t let you k…

Checking for power at panel mounted fuses and relays sounds like a straight forward proposition, right? Not in today’s high tech power panels. What follows is some of the information you need to be aware of when playing the find the power game …

The afternoon was nice and hot with the temperature in the mid-90s, things were going great in the shop when the drive came a dusty 2001 Ford Ranger. The driver told me that the A/C was not cold and he was uncomfortable in the hot weather. The …

Counterfeiting of R134a refrigerant we commonly use in vehicles refrigerated containers, refrigerators and commercial applications has heightened refrigerant purity fears to a new level because the primary contaminant is not only flammable but …

In a few cases going green has increased our shop’s costs, but just as often it ends up saving us money.

The Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) talked at its annual convention this year yet again about the debut of the new refrigerant. And while HFO1234yf was the focus of more than one conversation during January’s event, there were plenty of …

Don’t overlook seemingly small details to achieve significant improvements in paint prep time.

You need to help your team understand the role that each one of them plays in helping their internal customers to become more efficient.