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WEQ Fair Attendance Expected to Double
Attendance for the upcoming Wastewater Equipment Fair in Dallas is on pace to double the turnout of the inaugural event, held last...
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PMI and AWE Collaborate on Water Efficiency Study in Five States
Plumbing Manufacturers International (PMI) and the Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE) have announced a joint partnership on a study to determine potential...
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Contractor’s Daughter Dives Into Plumbing Trade
In business, it’s important for companies to differentiate from competitors, especially in highly saturated markets. In Wichita Falls, Texas — a city...
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Inventory Improves Plumbers’ Efficiency
The last thing technicians at Hassell Free Plumbing want to do is arrive at a job and discover they don’t have the...
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A Place for Everything
No offense to plumbing supply houses, but master plumber Walter Pickett prefers to avoid them as much as possible. And the owner...
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5 Toughest Pipe Bursting Jobs
You shimmy into cramped trench boxes and maneuver heavy equipment into tight quarters, all in the name of pipe bursting. The no-dig...
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In Her Father’s Footsteps
Since she first began working at Roto-Rooter of Fort Worth in 1987, Kim Miller knew she wanted to eventually own her own...
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Understanding the Market
In a booming regional economy, Paul Swoyer Septics has tapped into a limitless market with innovative construction, compensation and marketing.An upscale, high-value...
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Business Blueprint: Plumbing Entrepreneur Proves the Value of Corporate Structure
With a detailed business plan in hand, Roger Goertz and his wife Stacey purchased an existing Mr. Rooter franchise in Houston, Texas,...
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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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Squeeze Play
A leaking 30-inch cast-iron water transmission main was a long-standing problem for a neighborhood in Amarillo, Texas. Installed in 1927 when there...
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Mud is Money
Richard Young and partner Jose Santos developed Hydro Spy LLC with a business plan that saw the emergence of hydroexcavation as a...
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Steps to Success
David Ratliff’s Midway Plumbing is a quarter-century old, but it has lasted that long by doing new things. He launched the business...


















