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Sales of tankless water heaters are picking up in and around Santa Rosa, California, says Jim Curoso, owner of Curoso Plumbing, which...

What’s the best way to make an informed, analytical decision about the future of your business, whether it’s to add a new...

Cleaning clogged drainlines used to be a prolonged and tedious job for Rob Broccolo Jr. Most contractors know the drill all too...

The temperatures at a job site can make operating compact equipment power sources tough. In fact, simply getting a small engine to...

For years, Steve Allen was frustrated by his inability to effectively tackle what he believes is a large potential market for pipeline...

It’s been a heck of a year. You’re probably tired. And the last thing you want to think about is what’s next....

It's that time of year when pipes in certain climates can be susceptible to freezing. Water pipes that freeze most frequently are: Pipes that...

Seattle Pump and Equipment moving to new locationSeattle Pump and Equipment will be moving from its current location to a larger 20,000-square-foot facility...

“What tools pay for themselves a thousand times over? And that’s a conservative estimate,” says Zachary Jurkowski of Montreal Contractors, in Montreal,...

The HotJet II Business Package is the ultimate drainline cleaning package. Including the very popular HotJet II trailer jetter which operates with...

Watts SpecHUB project specification toolSpecHUB, Watts’ plumbing project specification tool, enables engineers, architects, designers and specifiers to quickly specify plumbing and flow...

Maintenance contracts were key for Greg Beall in the early years of his business, G&B Services Plumbing and Drain Cleaning of Bowie,...

How serious is labor and material management to your business? Serious enough to have a better process in place to account for...

In my previous article, I explored the SWOT analysis grid, a widely used business tool that helps entrepreneurs make big decisions in an...

A couple of pieces of furniture in the Lehman Pipe and Supply offices in Florida qualify as truly unique. They’re custom-made “Viega tables,”...

Plumbing can be thankless work. There are days, sometimes weeks even, when nothing seems to go right. Complaining customers, disgruntled employees, rising...

The International Space Station (ISS) recently received some upgraded plumbing. In October, a new space toilet called the Universal Waste Management System along...

There is an old proverb that goes, “Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person...

When Mike Jackson established Modern Plumbing in Avon, Indiana, in 2004, he decided that drain cleaning would be an essential part of...