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Three top plumbing apprentices received awards in the annual Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors–National Association (PHCC) Educational Foundation's Plumbing Apprentice Contest, held in October in...

New technologies and condition assessment programs along with a more knowledgeable customer base have transformed the way drain cleaning and plumbing contractors...

Four years after establishing his company in the Northern California suburb of Rancho Cordova, Bill Heinselman was stunned when he was offered...

For more than 25 years, blockages and backups were a way of life for the owners of a two-story pier-and-beam house in...

Cable machines. Portable units. Trailer jetters. All essential tools for any drain cleaning or plumbing pro. Whether your moneymakers are residential or...

From outward appearances, the nicely lettered, 14-foot Isuzu box truck owned by B. Frank Joy LLC in Hyattsville, Md., may not look...

When 6-year-old Basim Mansour tagged along with his father during electrical repair calls in the 1970s, he had no idea that one...

Root cutter, camera assist in cleaning root-clogged lateralProblem: Ventura County, Calif., contractor From Sinks To Sewers was inspecting a lateral and found...

When Roger Milner was laid off from his job as a maintenance man at a church, he decided it was time to...

Think of Steve Harmon as MacGyver with a drain-cleaning machine instead of, say, a paper clip and duct tape. Like MacGyver, the...

Scott Spencer didn’t have to look far when he set out to purchase a plumbing business. He had been the general manager...

Marcus Rodriguez often finds himself in hot water with customers — and he wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s because his...

The National Park Service was modernizing cabins and rehabilitating the wastewater infrastructure in Glacier National Park in Columbia Falls, Mont. HK Contractors...

A high school introduction to ornamental horticulture proved useful when an abrupt detour in Ray Erb’s career routed him into the onsite...