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Finding the Balance
Long hours come with the territory in the service contracting industry, especially when businesses offer 24-hour emergency service. As such, carving out...
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Beyond ‘Three Trucks’
After eight years as a residential drain cleaner and plumber in Washington, D.C., Frankey Grayton came to a realization: While Grayton Plumbing...
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A Benefit to Smile About
If you’ve been grinding your teeth in frustration trying to come up with a plan to take the bite out of dental...
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To Boldly Go...
Getting access to remote sewer interceptors that run along riverbanks in Maine used to be a real chore for workers at Ted...
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Looking to the Net
Faced with a highly competitive market, Al King opened TopGun Plumbing four years ago, knowing he would have to set his company...
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Versatile Performer
Sewers don’t stop clogging just because it’s 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill factor during northern-Canada winters. Technicians at D&S...
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Looking Deep
Family and friends of 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet underground in northern Chile got an early Christmas present last summer when a...
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Mussel Chowder
Mussels growing six layers thick on the offshore salmon cage nets of an aquaculture farm on Vancouver Island, B.C., were reducing the...
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Concrete Objectives
After working in oil field piping construction for several years, and in waterblasting using high-pressure equipment since 2005, Dustin Prevost found the...
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Divide and Conquer
Being a big contractor good at many little things was hard to market, so Dennis Smith, owner of Pipe Experts LLC in...
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A Fix at Last
For years, sewage discharging from cleanouts affected as many as 40 properties at the 650-unit Millpond mobile home park in San Jose,...
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Making Green
To boost employee safety, enhance productivity and decrease operating costs, Martin’s Pipeline Inspection in Paris, Ky., went green – as in a...
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On the Level
While it may not be obvious at first glance, there are similarities between telecommunications and municipal water and sewer – like laying...
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I&I Terminator
Sometimes new opportunities make business owners take a deep breath and make big investments in new equipment. Rich Navert, owner and president...














