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Protect Your Expensive High-Pressure Hose
Spartan’s new manhole cover protects your people and your equipment.
Personal protection The safety orange color clearly identifies the open manhole and reduces the...
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Making a Connection: A Comprehensive Guide to Putting Together PEX Pipe
Compared to rigid pipe, flexible PEX pipe has a lot of benefits in areas such as durability, reliability and cost-effectiveness. But when...
Blogs
If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Drain Cleaner Edition
Spartan Tool asked its social media followers: "What do you wish you knew when you were starting in the drain cleaning industry?...
Editorial
Attracting Residential Customers Is No Easy Task
Plumbers are often in the business of delivering bad — and expensive — news to homeowners. These conversations can be difficult for...
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A Look Back: Plumbing in the 1800s
One day I was retrieving parts from our warehouse for an elderly man who came in for “packing” to “repack a stem.”
The...
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Giving Back: Minnesota Plumbing Company’s Charitable Project Completes a Sixth Year
It’s become a rite of spring in Mower County, Minnesota — T ‘N G Plumbing’s Pay It Forward project.
The company leads a...
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Pressed for Time: How Plumbing Press Tools Can Help Profit Margins
You’re always looking for ways to do a job faster without compromising quality.
Completing jobs in the estimated time (or faster) allows a...
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Help Your Customers Protect Against Lead in Drinking Water
America’s aging sewer and water infrastructure is no secret, and neither is the emerging problem of lead contamination in drinking water. As...
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Army Veteran Credits Plumbing With Giving Him a Satisfying Career Path
After leaving a fulfilling career in the U.S. Army to spend more time with family, John Gibson struggled to readjust to civilian...
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How Efficient Are You At the Job Site?
Time is money, so finding ways to make every minute count on the job site can go a long way in enhancing...
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How Does Your Business Name Reflect Your Plumbing Service Offerings?
Jeff Matthews thought carefully before settling on Precision Plumbers as the name for the business he launched in 2009 in Temperanceville, Virginia.
“It...
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Leveraging Review Sites
Look back at the last time you needed a new service provider, whether it was a new barber, landscaper or handyman. Did...
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How to Handle a Retrofit Rough-In
Ask any finish guy how difficult “trim-out” or “finish” work can be and the answer will be: “Depends on how the rough-in...
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MyTana Debuts the M745 Workhorse
In the training manual Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding by Conrad Dent (not to be confused with the iconic American...
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The Drain Game: Clean-Outs Edition
Show what you know about lateral clean-outs.
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Editorial
Residential Plumbing
A hot water solution for resort community
Problem: Wyndham Branson at the Meadows resort needed to replace outdated water heating equipment with a...












