HVAC
Carrier, Lennox execs on today’s market
Carrier and Lennox executives spoke at a pair of investor conferences in Miami last week
Economy
HVAC
Charted: 20 years of HVAC shipments
While annual shipment volumes have grown steadily since the Great Financial Crisis, 2025 saw the fewest combined units shipped since 2016
HVAC
March to run warmer than normal: Outlook
Most of the country is set to experience above-normal temperatures during the month, the National Weather Service said Thursday
HVAC
Watsco: HVAC equipment sales slid 7% in 2025
“The recent business environment has been among the most complicated in memory,” CEO Albert Nahmad said in a statement
Plumbing
Rheem aims to hold 1 million plumber trainings by 2035
A Rheem spokesperson told Homepros that trainings will take place at the company’s Innovation Learning Centers, of which there are over a dozen worldwide
Plumbing
Residential water heater shipments spike in December, flat in 2025
Roughly 4.25 million gas water heaters were shipped in 2025, up 1.8 percent from 2024, while electric water heater shipments fell 0.6 percent to just over 5 million
HVAC
HVAC shipments fell 20% in 2025
Just over 7.7 million combined air conditioners and heat pumps were shipped during the year, down from roughly 9.6 million in 2024
HVACPlumbing
Gen Z survey: 60% want into the trades
Gen Z has been increasingly drawn to the trades, a trend that could help fill the roughly 40,000 job openings for HVAC techs and installers projected each year until 2032
HVAC
HVAC distributor sales rose slightly in December — with a caveat
“We estimate for the month sales would have declined by 2.3% with the same number of billing days,” said HARDI's Brian Loftus
HVAC
U.S. housing trend pressures replacement demand
“Sellers at the end of 2025 had owned their homes for an average of 8.6 years — a record in data going back to early 2000, when the average was 4.2 years”