Keep Your Plumbers Busy When Business is Slow

Slow and steady wins the race. While that may be true for the tortoise, plumbers more frequently work like the hare, racing from appointment to appointment. However, when work does slow down, there’s no need to worry. In fact, it’s a great time to focus on maintenance and other tasks around the shop that often get put off. For many companies, having technicians work on maintenance or other shop cleanup may be preferable to offering unpaid days off. Ti Sutherland owns Sutherland Plumbing in Aloha, Oregon, just outside Portland. He started the business on his own in 2013, and now has two