Plumbing Company Continues to Build Its Legacy through Training and Expansion

Over four decades, Kentucky’s Tom Drexler Plumbing has evolved from a one-man, one-truck plumbing shop into a diversified trades service provider operating in multiple states with 225 trucks hitting the road daily

Nov 20, 2023 | by Giles Lambertson |

Plumbing Company Continues to Build Its Legacy through Training and Expansion — The management team at Tom Drexler Plumbing at company headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. From left, Kaita Renwick, director of business development; Mike Wells, regional HVAC director; Heath Murray, Elizabethtown branch manager; Cody Webster, HVAC service assistant manager; Marvis Hall, director of customer service; Josh Toon, sales manager; Mike Fox, electric service manager; Tonya Bryant, warehouse supervisor; Justin Price, drains and camera manager; Lauren Nielsen, plumbing service manager; Tony Hommrich, plumbing service install manager; Rebecca Birchfield, install coordinator supervisor; Todd Ruxer, regional director of operations; Mike Birchfield, production manager; Scott Montgomery, electric service manager; Jason Frost, remodel install manager; Darren Batman, regional plumbing director; Mike Hall, HVAC service assistant manager; and Chris Hardin, HVAC install manager.

In the beginning, Tom Drexler Plumbing, Air & Electric was just Tom Drexler Plumbing. More to the point, it was just Tom Drexler. Yet when 23-year-old Drexler decided in 1982 that his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, needed another plumbing shop, he was building on a legacy for he was a fourth-generation master plumber. Even so, he was the first Drexler to hang his name on a company. Today, his eponymous company sits astride the industry in Louisville and all of Kentucky, with customers only needing to remember his name to have his number — Dial 1-Tom-Drexler.With company growth nowhere near topping out,

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