Editorial Articles

In a business that’s generally pretty dirty, Hugh McLaughlin has a clean conscience —even after nearly 40 years’ of sewer and drain...

Residential. Industrial. Commercial. R.I.C. Plumbing pretty much does it all, but it was underground work that really elevated the company. Rick Kuhns was...

I wrote my column for this issue yesterday. This isn’t it. I was reading through it one more time this morning and I...

Imagine how much more productive your jet/vac truck could be if you didn’t need to leave the job site a half dozen...

Some jobs may seem too small to sweat over the idea of public safety. There are a hundred little things on a job...

Allocating marketing dollars can seem like an arduous and even dicey process to decide how much to spend annually and on what....

How much does it take to retire? Conventional wisdom once suggested if you could put aside a million dollars, you’d be set...

Water blaster preps historic building for refurbishing Problem: In Chicago, a historic structure stood ready to be refurbished into an up-and-coming Embassy Suites hotel....

In the world of municipal sewer cleaning, efficiency is important. Increasing efficiency without sacrificing performance or power, though, can often prove difficult....

There was a time when master plumber Linda Hudek, the owner of LH Plumbing Services in Fairfield, Ohio, owned only the bare...

Rex King Jr. — majority owner of King’s Sanitary Service in Bristolville, Ohio — made a game-changing move in 2016 when he...

It’s good to be part of a community, whether it’s your hometown, a profession, recreational group or something else. It’s good to...

Mark Carpenter believes in offering customers as many options as possible to solve their pipeline rehabilitation needs. That philosophy explains why American...

No vehicles, no heavy equipment, yet the job was cleaning 10,000 feet of 27- to 30-inch sewer main. The site was the Four...