Alex Galicia calls drain cleaning his stepping stone to continued growth.“It gives you the chance to show off your skills and show that you can be trusted,” says the owner of BPI Plumbing in Chula Vista, California, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.“I would say a lot of our biggest customers started as a drain call.”One such call brought BPI Plumbing a $2 million repiping job at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in nearby San Diego two years ago.Meeting the challengeA series of interconnected buildings had been remodeled, but a drainfield issue where recruits march and graduation ceremonies are held hadn’t
