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All-Women Plumbing Company Teaches Female Homeowners How to Make Minor Repairs
An all-women plumbing company in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada, is offering female homeowners courses in how to fix common plumbing issues so they...
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Reflecting on Earth Day and the Environment
When you hand-make more than a million toilets each year, you end up with a lot of scrap that can be recycled....
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Why Join a Trade Association?
Once upon a time, being part of trade association was practically a given. Regardless of the industry, the pins and certificates of...
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Trenches Don’t Have to be Deep to be Dangerous
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on trench safety and the story of a cave-in survivor who dispels the...
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On the Job: Plumbers Strike Gold
Who has $50,000 worth of gold in their bathroom? Better yet, who stashes a one-kilogram bar under their Jacuzzi?That’s what Alif Babul,...
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Florida Plumber Changes Lives Around the World
Fred Schilling, president of Pipeline Plumbing & Backflow Service in Pompano, Florida, installed a toilet and instantly changed a family’s life in...
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What are 10 Ways Plumbing Matters?
World Plumbing Day is an international event initiated by the World Plumbing Council in 2010 to recognize the important role plumbing plays in the...
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Can Referrals Boost Your Plumbing Business?
Steve Beecham, president of Home Town Mortgage in Alpharetta, Georgia, is an author and speaker who specializes in networking and leveraging social...
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Original Piece of Empire State Building Plumbing Up for Auction
An original piece of Empire State Building plumbing will go up for bid on eBay. A water pump gauge, part of the...
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Is Your Plumbing Business Prepared for a Crisis?
Heather Ripley, owner and founder of Ripley PR, a national agency that specializes in trades, has helped numerous service businesses through varying...
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Texas Plumber Performs Double Act of Kindness
What began as a plumber’s act of appreciation turned into a random act of kindness for an elderly man in Baytown, Texas,...
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Like My Father Before Me, I’m a Working (Wo)man
I’ll never forget the first time I experienced overt sexism in the plumbing industry: “Husband or father?” was his first – and...
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Smart Plumbers are Catching the New Wave of Plumbing Fixtures
We live in a “plugged-in” society, and technology is changing the way we do business. Plumbing companies now respond directly to email...



















