Since purchasing a Roto-Rooter franchise in 1982 in Jackson, Miss., Paul Berlin has not hesitated to buy new equipment and jump into...
Entries Tagged Pipe Bursting
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Twists and Turns
A leaking 4-inch HDPE gas line under the main access road between an office building and parking garage at The Towers at...
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Flirting with Failure
Puddles alongside the front porch of a three-bedroom home in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicated a leak in the waterline. Since the spigot was...
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Just One Call
They wanted to be a one-stop-shop for problems with underground utility lines: to find it, fix it, and leave the client in...
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Fruit of the Vine
In the middle of the grape-harvesting season at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, Calif., workers washing 40,000-gallon fermenting tanks and...
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Bursting Through the Clutter
After working for years in various phases of construction in and around Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Jesse Stephens established Stephens Excavating & Concrete, taking...
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Looking to the Net
Faced with a highly competitive market, Al King opened TopGun Plumbing four years ago, knowing he would have to set his company...
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Team Effort
Water leaking into crawl spaces and pooling in the flowerbed in front of the main entrance at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in...
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Full Circle
American Inspection Technologies in Trenton, N.J., has its roots in a residential drain cleaning business. But today it is a diverse pipe...
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Code Red
Sewage backing into the emergency room complex of the Villages Regional Hospital brought employees from the maintenance arm of CH2M Hill on...
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Ever Independent
From the time he was 10 years old, Kyle Baxter worked with his grandfather cleaning sewer pipes, often using an old pumper...
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Redneck Success
Charlie Hall may call his sewer and drain-cleaning operation a “redneck enterprise,” but there is no smirking about the way he has...
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Equipment Fitness
Thirty years ago, Bill Smith established Lincoln Sewer & Drain after losing his job as a welder. He worked briefly for a...











