When Josh Shelton talks about plumbing, leadership or the future of the trades, he’s not speaking from theory. He’s speaking from a lifetime spent absorbing the values, work ethic and resourcefulness that shaped Shelton Plumbing, long before he ever considered taking over the business his father founded the same year Josh was born.
“My dad started Shelton Plumbing in 1983,” Shelton recalls. “He grew the company to around 20 employees at one point, but he found out that he didn’t really enjoy the management side. It got out of his control, and he decided to downsize.”For more than a decade, his















