It’s that point of 12 months once more when folks mirror on what they’re grateful for prior to now 12 months, and hope for a optimistic 2024. I can’t stress sufficient the job that Brent and Kathleen Ridley (@toolpros & @toolwife) do with Miracle Mechanical, a charitable group devoted to uplifting households in want, one at-no-cost-HVAC/plumbing restore at a time. “Truthfully, it’s laborious to place into phrases,” says Brent Ridley. “Seeing and feeling the gratitude from owners is an unbelievable feeling, and one thing that by no means will get outdated.”
Software Professionals started as instrument overview model, because the model grew and relationships with instrument producers had been made, Ridley felt a necessity to make use of his platform for extra. “Free instruments and journeys are nice however I assumed to myself. ‘let’s really do one thing that issues.’”
Mixed together with his platform and what he knew greatest—HVAC /plumbing—Miracle Mechanical was born. Shortly after the idea, Ridley reached out to his contacts at RIDGID to gauge curiosity. “Fortunately they cherished the thought and needed to sponsor the very first venture. Two months later we accomplished our first venture, and the remaining is historical past,” says Ridley.
Formally, the first facilitators of Miracle Mechanical include Brent and his spouse Kathleen. In addition they usher in a manufacturing crew of three to 4 folks, and their crew of HVAC / plumbing contractors—often a 4-man crew—for a venture day.
Ridley says that the purpose is at all times to finish as many initiatives as potential; nevertheless, they’re averaging 4 to 5 initiatives per 12 months. Actually, Miracle Mechanical simply accomplished a venture this previous October with Sharkbite.
And so they have partnered with RIDGID for the subsequent venture going down in early 2024. Up to now, Miracle has teamed up with the AHR Expo however nothing for 2024. “We stay up for partnering with AHR for his or her work power improvement program sooner or later,” says Ridley.
However between working as an HVAC contractor, content material creator, Miracle Mechanical facilitator, podcaster and Lowe’s Santa, discovering time to take a deep breath could be tough. “Certain, it may well really feel overwhelming at occasions,” says Ridley. “Fortunately, I’ve my spouse who’s a full-time supervisor and coordinator for the Software Professionals model and Miracle Mechanical. Her dedication to the model permits me to deal with my HVAC/plumbing enterprise (H & M Providers, Inc.), in addition to different artistic shops—with out dropping any balls within the course of.”
The Miracle Mechanical idea is such a superb one, and one which I do know Ridley hopes he can present nationally. Presently, logistics and funding for nationwide initiatives have been an enormous impediment, however one which I’m assured we’ll overcome within the subsequent couple of years,” says Ridley.
Extra About Brent Ridley
Ridley began into the trades proper out highschool in 2004. His girlfriend’s father, on the time, owned an HVAC enterprise, and he began the summer season after senior 12 months doing industrial duct work and hated it. It was solely till he discovered service and restore that he fell in love with the HVAC trade. “From there, I’ve at all times strived to make it greater than only a ‘Job,’ however a way of life. If you wish to get forward in life, you’ll be able to’t clock out at 5 pm.”
Within the earier days earlier than social media, Ridley wrote long-form, trade-specific instrument opinions on a website known as HVACTalk.com, which not exists. In 2017, Ridley began his profitable Software Professionals Podcast. “Not lengthy after, the social media portion of the model shortly outgrew the podcast, resulting in many alternatives that I’m very grateful for, like Miracle Mechanical,” says Ridley.