On "Heat Pump Hype to Hands-On Reality: The HVAC Skills Gap Contractors Can’t Ignore"

The skills gap is real, but it's not a mystery or an industry-wide crisis—it's a contractor problem, and that's actually fixable. Most shops aren't losing money because techs can't diagnose a heat pump; they're losing it because nobody's training them and nobody's charging enough to make training economical. If you're not investing in your bench right now, you're betting that this market stays soft and that you can keep limping along with whatever you've got. That math doesn't work anymore.