The Family Plumber in Los Alamitos, California, is, as they say, not your father’s plumbing store, not even if you’re Mike Prencavage Jr. While he retained the original tenets of the family business after he took the reins 11 years ago from his father, the new generation thoroughly reinvented the company.
“One of my biggest challenges as a second-generation owner was to try to live up to my father’s reputation,” says Mike Jr., as he is known to other local contractors. “He had such a great reputation. I wanted to continue his operation but expand it, keep the same core values
