Milling machines have become essential tools for fast and efficient cleaning. This includes many of the obstacles sewer cleaning crews face on...
Entries Tagged Picote Solutions
Editorial
Sewertronics LED Light Curing Technology Amps Up Contractor’s Pipe Rehab Game
Many contractors would think twice about spending roughly $200,000 on a pipe lining system. Luis Fanlo, owner of Arrow Sewer and Drain...
Videos
Spartan Teams With Picote on Versatile High-Speed Drain Machines
In this video from the 2023 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show, Brian Elliott of Spartan Tool highlights the...
Editorial
Product Focus: CIPP Lining Methods and Projects
CIPP Equipment and Materials
Applied Felts EnviroCureEnviroCure from Applied Felts is a heat-cured, styrene-impermeable, polymer-coated, multilayer all-felt or felt/fiberglass hybrid fabric that vastly...
Editorial
Hansen’s Plumbing Shifts to a Fleet of Electric Service Vehicles
There was a time when business at Hansen’s Plumbing was heavily weighted more toward plumbing and less toward drain cleaning — about...
Online Exclusives
Illinois Contractor Practices DIY Equipment Manufacturing
Rodney King subscribes to the belief that if you need a tool and can’t find one to purchase, make it yourself.
The owner...
Editorial
Plomero en Phoenix Transforms From One-Man Operator to Million-Dollar Contractor
When Armando Ramos decided at age 19 to open a drain cleaning business in Phoenix in 2010, he was the definition of...
Editorial
Wisconsin Contractor Builds Mutually Beneficial Work Referral Network With Fellow Plumbers
Thirteen years into running his own business, Chris Bontempo is so busy he doesn’t bother to advertise. No website. No ads. A...
Editorial
Simple Hard Work Drives North Dakota Drain Cleaner’s Success
Being an entrepreneur can leave a person fraught with anxiety. Starting a business is risky. And even when a venture is successful...
Editorial
Industry News - February 2023
Picote opens trenchless training
center in Porvoo, FinlandPicote Solutions Oy announced the opening of a hands-on trenchless training center for international customers in...
Editorial
Contractor Finds Value in Achieving Good Work-Life Balance
Master plumber Matt Mertz spent 17 years building his company, Matt Mertz Plumbing, into a $12 million-a-year business with 50 technicians, over...
Editorial
Family Members Carry On Late Plumber’s Legacy and Vision
When Valerie McGinnis’ husband Mark unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 2020 at age 60, she wasn’t sure what would...
Online Exclusives
Industry News: December 2022
Picote opens trenchless training center in Porvoo, FinlandPicote Solutions Oy announced the opening of a hands-on trenchless training center for international customers...
Online Exclusives
Picote Group Receives Awards at International No-Dig
The Picote Group was recognized in October by the Finnish Society for Trenchless Technology at the 38th International No-Dig Conference and Exhibition...


















