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Entries Tagged Residential Plumbing
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Through the Camera Lens: A Gallery of Plumbers At Work
With the company profile Plumber magazine features each month, we capture the work that contractors do through both words and pictures.
When photographers accompany contractors...
Blogs
Spartan Tool’s Pro of the Month: Brent Bogan
This month, Spartan Tool is featuring Brent Bogan, owner of Affordable Rooter Service, LLC, in Bryant, Arkansas. They serve customers in the...
Blogs
Trench Safety Training
You already know that working in trenches is inherently dangerous. You know this because we’ve all seen the reports on the news:...
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5 Essential Hand Tools For Every Plumber
If you’re still in the infancy of your plumbing career, you’ll soon realize that there are a few hand tools that can...
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Protect Your Expensive High-Pressure Hose
Spartan’s new manhole cover protects your people and your equipment.
Personal protection The safety orange color clearly identifies the open manhole and reduces the...
Blogs
If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Drain Cleaner Edition
Spartan Tool asked its social media followers: "What do you wish you knew when you were starting in the drain cleaning industry?...
Editorial
Attracting Residential Customers Is No Easy Task
Plumbers are often in the business of delivering bad — and expensive — news to homeowners. These conversations can be difficult for...
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A Look Back: Plumbing in the 1800s
One day I was retrieving parts from our warehouse for an elderly man who came in for “packing” to “repack a stem.”
The...
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Giving Back: Minnesota Plumbing Company’s Charitable Project Completes a Sixth Year
It’s become a rite of spring in Mower County, Minnesota — T ‘N G Plumbing’s Pay It Forward project.
The company leads a...
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Help Your Customers Protect Against Lead in Drinking Water
America’s aging sewer and water infrastructure is no secret, and neither is the emerging problem of lead contamination in drinking water. As...
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Army Veteran Credits Plumbing With Giving Him a Satisfying Career Path
After leaving a fulfilling career in the U.S. Army to spend more time with family, John Gibson struggled to readjust to civilian...
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How Does Your Business Name Reflect Your Plumbing Service Offerings?
Jeff Matthews thought carefully before settling on Precision Plumbers as the name for the business he launched in 2009 in Temperanceville, Virginia.
“It...
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Leveraging Review Sites
Look back at the last time you needed a new service provider, whether it was a new barber, landscaper or handyman. Did...
















