Taco After Dark

Taco Comfort Solutions, in conjunction with Mechanical-Hub, is thrilled to bring its innovative and popular training series Taco After Dark back for the fall heating season. In the midst of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing, Taco would like to help you use this time to sharpen your skills. Together we are offering our full-day residential field training class to you, one hour at a time.

Taco After Dark is an energetic, informative and entertaining 10-week program and features practical, real world solutions to the challenges hydronics professionals face every day. And as the program’s name suggests, Taco After Dark is designed for the working man or woman with evening sessions that won’t interfere with the demands of heating season.

Taco After Dark sessions run one hour each and will start promptly at 7 PM Eastern time. The program begins Wednesday, September 30^th and will run each Wednesday through completion on December 9^th.  Your hosts – Taco Trainers Dave Holdorf, Rick Mayo and John Barba – will share with you everything from basic heat loss calculations to advanced boiler piping and circulator selection. The trio will also remain online after the program to answer as many questions about hydronics as the audience wishes.

Attendees may register for each session individually, and each program will be recorded and archived for repeated viewing. Each session qualifies you for one PDH credit. YOU MUST ATTEND THE LIVE WEBINAR SESSION (NOT THE RECORDED SESSION) IN ORDER TO RECEIVE YOUR PDH CERTIFICATE. The link to the PDH certificate, along with a link to the recorded webinar session, will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours after the end of each webinar session.

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John Barba

Director of Training, Taco Comfort Solutions

John Barba has been in the plumbing heating industry most of his life, growing up in his family’s plumbing and heating business in Harvard, MA. John’s practical experience includes everything from ditch digging and drain cleaning to boiler piping and PEX slinging, as well as business management and contractor sales. Since 1995, John has trained over 30,000 contractors on the fine art and subtle science of hydronic heating design and installation through highly interactive, entertaining and informative seminars.

John is Director of Training for Taco Comfort Solutions, the leading manufacturer of commercial and residential circulators, controls and accessories for plumbing and heating systems. He is the 2012-2014 recipient of the Carlson-Holohan Industry Award of Excellence, and was recently named the industry’s Best Trainer for 2015 by AHRI News Magazine.

David Holdorf

Residential Trainer, Eastern Region, Taco Comfort Solutions

Mr. Holdorf has been in the hydronic industry for 25 years, specifically in the radiant heating side of the business for the better part of his career. Starting out in the technical support/design role and then took over as Engineering Manager overseeing the Technical Support and Design Department. Later he took a position as a Field Technician; supporting training, designing, installing and troubleshooting.

Rick Mayo

Western Product and Application Instructor, Taco Comfort Solutions

Rick started his career in the hydronic heating industry as a plumber in 1977. In 1981, he transitioned into a wholesale role. Over the next 21 years, he worked his way up to a regional heating manager and left to pursue a training/technical support position with Uponor-Wirsbo. Seven years later, Rick took a western regional sales manager/corporate trainer role with Triangle Tube/ACV. Since joining Taco in 2015, Rick has made an impact as the Western Product and Application Instructor through his training that stretches from Alaska to San Diego, as well as four provinces in western Canada.