Seasonal facts and cosmic alignments shine on your favorite mechanical contractor.

How do we know when to turn on the heat? And why, typically, in Dayton the middle of October is the date for boilers and furnaces to come back from their summer vacations? Summer fashion straw hats are now back in the closets and we’ll have to wait until Easter to see white stuff again. But, what happens every October 15?

It’s cosmic.

It’s something to make you believe.

Our building is located at the end of First Street – just where it bends into Springfield Street. From out the windows we can see all the way down the road and we observe every October 15 the sunset alignment of First Street.

First Street stretches westwards from our building all the way past the Dragons Baseball Field until the point where, at dusk, like on the shores of the ocean, the golden Sun dips into the Great Miami River. Compared to Third Street which bisects all of Dayton and Montgomery County into North and South, First Street is roughly two miles long, only a short odyssey for the Sun to bring to us the very last ray of the summer. Because of the exclusive alignment, the final sunbeam of the season shines straight down First Street and into our offices. The final epilogue; we know the heating season is on! It’s how they must have done it at Stonehenge and at Sunwatch Indian Village, how else to know summer from winter.

Take a ride into the sunset along First Street, going west from Springfield Street all the way into downtown. Watch the linked video.

To be in the heating business in Dayton, First Street is the only place. And we’re right there. We’re not new on the block either. The Brownell Boiler Works was here originally and like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, our little area neighborhood is full of really cool boilers. It’s in our roots.

You think we’re special?

It might snow soon.