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Should You Run Ethanol in Your Small Engine?
Would you? Could you? Should you use ethanol-blended, oxygenated fuel in your small engine?The short answer is yes, but …Today’s spark-ignited, carbureted...
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How Did a Fence Post Get in Drainline?
When a local Wendy’s restaurant found itself shutdown with a sewer line blockage, Justin Moe, owner and CEO of All Ways Drains,...
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What Should You Do if Your Email’s Been Hacked?
A few weeks ago, I received a frantic email from a friend who works for a real estate company. I had seen...
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How Can Being a Team Member Benefit Your Business?
John Mott II is president of Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Drain in Sciotoville, Ohio, part of John Mott Enterprises that includes Mott’s Potts...
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What Do You Do When Customers Question the Cost of Service?
Property managers and real estate investors can mean steady, reliable work for plumbers. If you are willing to provide terms, these groups...
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Compact and Versatile Video Inspection System
Often, the business that succeeds is the one that can offer the most to its customers. That means not only streamlining operations,...
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Jetter Hose Repair 101
Sooner or later, contractors who rigorously inspect their jetter hoses will discover a nick or cut that requires a repair. While taking...
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Build a Safety Training Toolbox
Whether you are required to hold them or not, safety meetings are critical to protecting your workers and your company from the...
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Where Would We Be Without Drain Cleaners?
As a teenager, I worked in the kitchen of a summer camp. I didn’t cook or care for the campers. I was...
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Adding Remote Payment to Your Business
As you can probably attest from personal experience, most people don’t have a lot of cash on hand these days. Rather than...
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A Clogged Sink is No Match for This Little Powerhouse Jetter
Good things come in shiny, little diamond-plate toolboxes. The portable, lightweight JM-1000 Mini Jet is designed specifically to tackle a common plumbing...
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Contractor Demos Newest Epoxy Lining Technology
Bill Howe opened AM/PM Sewer and Drains in 1979 and focused heavily on affordable drain cleaning and minor plumbing in San Diego, California. The following...
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Do You Charge by the Job, or by the Hour?
Want to see a fight among plumbers? Start a rhetorical cage match that pits flat-rate billing against charging by the hour.Some...
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Puncture-Proof Tires Enhance Reliability of Rugged Jetters
Puncture-proof tires now make four popular, powerful Jet Set water jetters from General Pipe Cleaners even more rugged and reliable in the...

















