The conveyor oven at the pizzeria completely stopped working. Two hits with a hammer brought it back to life.

Accounting office. Just accountants. Outsourcers and tax specialists. Red folders, yellow files, green walls. Neat and tidy. The air conditioning keeps heating, even though May is technically over. Well, yes, the smart system has two programmed modes: winter and summer. But no one knows how to switch from winter to Continue Reading

The plastic plug on the pool heat pump just dried out. That’s it. It’s not working. It seems that for the next couple of weeks, people will be trying to start up their pools and discovering similar issues. The smiling housewife, while we, like pigs, walk around the house in Continue Reading

The new mineral will be called icecreamite. It consists of ancient deposits of frozen layers of ice cream inside the machine that makes it. It can be cleaned with a screwdriver and a pressure washer. Afterwards, everything around has a pleasant creamy scent. It lingers. Worse than ice cream is Continue Reading

The factory produces semi-trailers and buses. It’s just a factory—big, with cranes, warehouses, carts, blanks, sawdust, noise, and workers. Dirty windows in the workshop ceiling, powerful lamps. A laser cutting machine. It needs a large refrigerator. There was a significant leak, but it was fixed before we arrived. We came Continue Reading

A village. Silence. The sound of an airport can be heard about 20 kilometers away. Occasionally, a moped passes by or a car rustles. Some have chickens, others have geese. Some have a pool. I wanted to turn it on, but it didn’t work. All the freon leaked out over Continue Reading

In the printing house, a chiller is needed to cool the water that cools the printing press itself. The line from the friction gets very hot. I spent a long time cleaning the machine from the inside because oil had leaked in.

If you’ve decided to open a company that deals with climate technology and want to emphasize that you offer the best of the best, you should think twice before putting the word CLIMAX on your sign.

Construction is underway. Roadwork is in progress. People with tractors, jackhammers, and shovels are everywhere. Nearby, there’s a vending machine selling ready-made “tormozki” — bags with sandwiches and yogurt. The machine is designed for outdoor use, with a metal casing and a battery. It clearly “follows” the workers like a Continue Reading

On the other side of the country, the smoothie machine broke down. The ice generator needs to be replaced. The old one is completely covered in scale. The ice generator is a stainless steel cylinder with a screw inside and a cooling circuit outside—a copper tube with refrigerant. It’s the Continue Reading