Touring Richard’s HVAC Showroom

Touring Richard’s HVAC Showroom | Ask This Old House

Рет қаралды 38,066

Күн бұрын

In this video, This Old House host Kevin O’Connor heads out on the road with plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey to learn more about his HVAC showroom and educational facility.
SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: bit.ly/SubscribeThisOldHouse.
About a year ago, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and his son Evan started renovating an old mill building. The goal was to turn it into a state-of-the-art educational and showroom facility. Today, Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor gets to visit RST Thermal in Fall River, Massachusetts, to learn more about this unique location.
Where to find it?
RST Thermal [rstthermal.com/our-team/]
Looking for more step by step guidance on how to complete projects around the house? Join This Old House Insider to stream over 1,000 episodes commercial-free: bit.ly/2GPiYbH
Plus, download our FREE app for full-episode streaming to your connected TV, phone or tablet: www.thisoldhouse.com/pages/st...
About Ask This Old House TV:
From the makers of This Old House, America’s first and most trusted home improvement show, Ask This Old House answers the steady stream of home improvement questions asked by viewers across the United States. Covering topics from landscaping to electrical to HVAC and plumbing to painting and more. Ask This Old House features the experts from This Old House, including general contractor Tom Silva, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, landscape contractor Jenn Nawada, master carpenter Norm Abram, and host Kevin O’Connor. ASK This Old House helps you protect and preserve your greatest investment-your home.
Follow This Old House:
Facebook: bit.ly/ThisOldHouseFB
Twitter: bit.ly/ThisOldHouseTwitter
Pinterest: bit.ly/ThisOldHousePinterest
Instagram: bit.ly/ThisOldHouseIG
Touring Richard’s HVAC Showroom | Ask This Old House
/ thisoldhouse

Пікірлер: 57

@pdevineiii Ай бұрын

Smart, funny, genuine guy. Richard is the best

@Guardducks Ай бұрын

He'll even autograph your water heater . Saw him do that once during an episode of the show by request from the homeowner.

@oldtwinsna8347 27 күн бұрын

@@Guardducks Adds tons of value so it's a good idea. When your water heater leaks many years later (or in some cases just a few years with the quality these days) then you can ebay it to help finance the cost of a new one.

@w.e.b.8719 Ай бұрын

I have grown old with This Old House, along with Hometime. I miss the people who madeThis Old House great. I enjoy the people who keep it going.

@dtemp132 27 күн бұрын

I learned a lot watching Dean on Hometime in the 90s when I was a boy!

@timfavre3870 Ай бұрын

Richard, man you're the best of the best!

@arth.4196 Ай бұрын

Awesome Richard 👌 👏 Your Dad would be Proud of the legacy

@markdalton55 Ай бұрын

I think Richard’s philosophy is, “ Empower, educate and don’t enable”. ❤️ Congratulations Professor Richard! 👍

@deanehill9730 Ай бұрын

Always enjoy Richard’s explanations of how it all works. He is a master educationalist. Thanks for the video.

@JimDean002 Ай бұрын

This is fantastic. Being able to see all of that stuff has to be a huge bonus to anybody that gets to go there

@s.j.5850 Ай бұрын

That's right Richard, pay it forward & pass it on to the next generation. There comes a time when it's no longer about the money, especially as we get older & no longer have to compete with others in the field. Enjoyed watching you & your coworkers on This Old House for years. You guys are the best! You're not so bad either Kevin.

@user-fs8fe2pf5i Ай бұрын

I have been a fan of Richard’s for a long while. Congratulations on the new learning center!

@biffy7 28 күн бұрын

Wish you great success Richard. This is a long way from when I started watching this show in NYC in the 80’s. Congratulations.

@joequirke1288 Ай бұрын

What a great way to give back and support your trade 🏆

@johnbogle522 21 күн бұрын

Having a showroom is always important, since it will make people more comfortable when getting trained and actually out there in the world. This is such a great idea 😉🙏

@loueckert4970 Ай бұрын

We bought a home in WV with geothermal heating and cooling. Great, low energy bills. In summer it can chill the whole 3800 square feet on a 100 degree day. Amazing. Waterfurnace is the brand.

@BamBamBigelow.. Ай бұрын

The perfect HVAC home…..thing of beauty

@chrisg1043 Ай бұрын

You’re right. We learn by seeing and touching the systems. Good job.

@frankgall6 Ай бұрын

We have some really great people in our industry. Awesome

@Mikecianfrocco 25 күн бұрын

RICHArd, it was nice meeting you at the symposium in Orlando! Sorry I broke in on your conversation with Bryan Orr

@m2r296 Ай бұрын

Richards’s dad was a visionary

@benjaminallen2370 13 күн бұрын

Love it… I’m down the road in Middletown, RI. Put in heat pumps recently and could have used the education (and in a few design respects, so could have my contractor).

@crookedFC Ай бұрын

Brilliant - as always though. What an amazing insight and content.

@mwrcrft Ай бұрын

Richard has been a welcomed constant to This Old House shows since he first showed up with his father and remove that old asbestos covered boiler.

@MustPassTruck Ай бұрын

Unions have a plumbing school near chicagoland. Parking lot is filled with individual plumbing company vans every day.

@donlifecoach Ай бұрын

Great job

@rubenmadrid3154 25 күн бұрын

Awesome legacy 👍👍

@zonegamma8197 Ай бұрын

superb place

@jstoney6471 Ай бұрын

Worked w/ Richard over 40 years ago on a promotional film for AMTROL.

@Tidus_Simms Ай бұрын

wish this video was longer. i pretty much watched all of their videos on youtube

@Cormacc Ай бұрын

Enjoy all your videos.

@jphilbin528 Ай бұрын

Good guys at RST

@matthewhall5571 Ай бұрын

This is really intelligent next level work. And Fall River MA needs people with interesting jobs and new ideas because its economy took a beating from lost manufacturing work.

@cp_patil Ай бұрын

Wow, Fall River! Would love to visit some day as a homeowner

@johnwilliams1091 19 күн бұрын

Construction code has evolved and in many ways is ready to evolve more to passive house standards, this technology is what makes it possible. It would be great to see the showroom incorporate some of the cutaways of passive house construction to help everyone seeing it to understand the why. The equation has flipped and in order to achieve climate goals, capital is required up front to make the home as efficient as possible. That capex is then recouped over the life of the home through nominal energy costs.

@douglasboyle6544 Ай бұрын

I briefly worked as an apprentice electrician before getting injured (unrelated) and being unable to work anymore and the guy I worked for had the same philosophy he said, "You're not going to work for me forever I want you to learn from me and eventually be able to go out on your own - just don't poach my clients there's plenty of work out there for everybody!"

@Westcoastride Ай бұрын

As cool as it is I hope it was paid for by the manufacturer as part of a marketing budget. No ROI

@ISpitHotFiyaa Ай бұрын

With so much new technology in a modern house it's a wonder that old houses cost as much as they do. It's like comparing a modern Cadillac to a 1986 Ford Festiva. The new home should cost a lot more than the old one but it normally doesn't.

@donc-m4900 Ай бұрын

Road trip.

@BoilerMaker56 Ай бұрын

Would love to meet Richard. I’ve been in the HVAC field for over 30 years and we truly need to get kids off the couch and working with their hands again.

@LennyMarkh Ай бұрын

Pay them well and they will come. The current generation isn't sitting on the couch, they're bogged down with student loan debt and want good paying union jobs. Absent of that they are hustling in the gig economy, putting in longer days than the prior generations and being given fewer economic opportunities. In summary, they're not sitting on couches, they expect honest pay for honest work and employers just aren't offering that.

@BoilerMaker56 Ай бұрын

@@LennyMarkh that is the biggest bunch of crap I ever heard. This generation of kids don’t even know what the word hard work is. they don’t need a college degree to learn the trades and they don’t need to be in debt with the college. You are so off on what you’re saying.

@LennyMarkh Ай бұрын

@@BoilerMaker56 Okay Boomer. Keep justifying shameful wages and bury your head in the sand to the realities of younger folks. That's right, it's only their faults since they've been in charge of everything...of wait...

@frankgall6 Ай бұрын

Every training by me is the manufacturer pushing their equipment, don’t seem to really care about actual training. I’m on Long Island and we are looking to start a training facility as well, Mikey pipes is actually starting a facility too for anyone in NY