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

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...

Many business owners today simply do not adequately plan their succession. Reasons for procrastination vary and include not wanting to leave or...

If you do an online search for water heater maintenance, the internet provides a homeowner with just enough information to potentially get...

Exit interviews are often used to find out why departing employees flew the coop. Business professor John Sullivan proposes a better strategy:...

As business owners, we often associate an improvement in customer experience with an increase in cost. We think of airline tickets and the...

Linda Hudek of Fairfield, Ohio, was featured in the September 2018 issue of Plumber magazine. At the time, Hudek, daughter of a plumber, was...

Dalton Coveyou has not been in business long, having founded his company Hotshots Drain Cleaning of Petoskey, Michigan, only a year ago,...

These days, we’re all sort of culturally conditioned to believe we have to be all things to all people. And when you’re...

If you’ve been in the trades for a while, you’ve probably been asked to take someone under your wing and teach them...

After I graduated college, I got an entry-level job at a manufacturing plant. I lifted and carried heavy things all day. Even...

For plumbing contractors who venture outside the arena of residential service and have a range of diverse offerings, municipal contracts present a...

In each issue, Plumber magazine captures the work that contractors do through both words and pictures. When photographers accompany profiled contractors on job sites,...