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Best Face Forward
American eagles, exploding toilets, poker hands, elephants, chess pieces, even plumber caricatures. That’s what we got after asking cleaners last December to...
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News From Around the Industry
Putzmeister Names Service Engineer, Telebelt SpecialistTravis Nonn has been named technical service engineer for the customer support group and Les Ormond has...
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Drain/Sewer Cleaning Machine Moves on Four Wheels
It can be a chore getting access to drains and pipes in remote locations. The K-1500G sectional cable machine from RIDGID travels...
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Drain/Sewer Cleaning Machine Moves on Four Wheels
It can be a chore getting access to drains and pipes in remote locations. The K-1500G sectional cable machine from RIDGID travels...
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Maiden Voyage
An 8-inch terra cotta sewer was failing in the Town of Newburgh, N.Y. The mainline ran beneath the middle of Neversink Drive...
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War Stories
Remember Aesop’s Fables, the stories with morals that our parents read to us when we were children? Through these and other tales,...
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The New Telephone
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology was originally designed to help people identify or navigate to locations, defined by latitude and longitude, on...
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Big Impression
Seeing a Pipe Wrench Plumbing service truck driving around Knoxville, Tenn., is the visual equivalent of getting hit with, well, a pipe...
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Marketing Makeover
Joe Simonetti knows it’s not enough just to sell the customer a good steak. The buyer has to hear it sizzle. Simonetti...
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Still Going Strong
As the owner and only employee of Arnie’s Plumbing and Sewer Cleaning in New Ulm, Minn., Arnie Schweiss gets up at 3...
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Communicating Through Conflict
There there are people, there is conflict. It affects us all. The failure to communicate effectively, or to communicate at all, is...
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The Big Bang
At 5:16 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 13, 1981, an explosion in downtown Louisville, Ky., hurled a passenger car into a railroad overpass...
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Acting the Part
Commercial clients expect a high-level of service, and that demands quality equipment. Southern California Jetting and Plumbing Co. steps right in with...
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Running Off the Rails
Just for fun, try searching the Internet under “mistakes investors make.” You’ll find articles that list 15 mistakes. Our four. Or 18....
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Yet Another Reminder
Fatalities from trench collapses continue to occur despite Occupational Safety and Health Admin-istration (OSHA) standards that specify sloping and benching, shoring, and...
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Low-ballers in Town
It’s a story we hear often: a reader calls or writes us at Cleaner to report on trouble with a competitor who...
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Sweet Rewards
A 6-inch sanitary sewer and 4-inch production line drain at the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory in San Leandro, Calif., were backing up. Plant...
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Signing on the Line
To sign or not to sign. That really is the question for many operators, wondering whether to work under a written contract...







