California plumber Farrell Brown’s success is an unusual mix of new and old.Brown has spent the past several years reinventing his business, step by step. A native of South Africa, he spent 20 years as a service plumber in the Greater Los Angeles area. In 2000, he decided to take a new direction, focusing on sewer inspection.The success of his company, Sewer Line Video Inspection Co. Inc., has been “unbelievable,” he says. He has branched out even further, adding pipe bursting and, later, pipe lining to his portfolio, working from the Woodland Hills area northwest of L.A. His target customers?
