Traditional “pigging” involves sending a mechanical device — or pig — down a pipe to clean or inspect it. Its descendant, ice...
Pipeline Inspection Articles
Blogs
Let’s Celebrate National Plumbers Day
April 25 is set aside each year to honor plumbers. Often plumbers don’t receive the credit and fame they deserve for their...
Online Exclusives
Pipeline Inspection in the Palm of Your Hand
The new Gen-Eye Micro-Scope from General Pipe Cleaners is a compact, hand-held inspection tool that gives you the versatility to inspect small...
Online Exclusives
Top Office Technology and Software to Increase Profits
You’re in business to make money. You earn a profit on each foot of a drain cleaned and on every mile of...
Blogs
Work Zone Awareness Week: Are You Prepared?
Tis’ the season for construction. With that comes safety zones, and a string of potential hazards associated with traffic control mishaps and...
Online Exclusives
Who Will Be in Charge If You’re Out of Commission?
There’s nothing insignificant about running a successful drain cleaning or pipeline inspection operation. You are aware of the day-to-day struggles of managing...
Online Exclusives
Gen-Eye POD Pipe Inspection System Adds 7-Inch Monitor
The lightweight Gen-Eye POD and MINI-POD combine camera, reel and monitor in an all-in-one package. You just grab it and go.You get...
Videos
Gen-Eye Hot-Spot Pipe Locator Offers Easy Locating
The Gen-Eye Hot-Spot pipe locator from General Pipe Cleaners makes locating easier than ever. It’s total field antenna array and on-screen icons...
Online Exclusives
Are You a One-Trick Pony?
If your drain cleaning business has become stagnant, consider diversifying. Additional services can be the key to your company’s growth.Consider septic tank...
Online Exclusives
5 Tricks of the Trade for Pipeline Inspections
Every profession has a few tricks of the trade, those little tidbits of knowledge only gained with experience, and maybe through learning...
Online Exclusives
How To Keep Sewer Workers Safe
Whether you work in a wastewater treatment facility, on a sewer collections system maintenance inspection and rehabilitation crew, or in residential plumbing...
Online Exclusives
Fully Loaded Transmitter Simplifies Pipe and Utility Locating
The new Gen-Eye Hot-Spot transmitter from General Pipe Cleaners makes pipe and utility locating easier than ever. The fully loaded 5-watt transmitter...
Editorial
Making a Lateral Move
The Gen2 mainline and lateral-launch video-inspection camera owned by Eco Infrastructure Solutions Inc. in Lebanon, Ind., is dwarfed by the much larger...
Editorial
Part of the Community
In 2003, Robert Christman purchased the Roto-Rooter franchise in Bloomington, Ind. In the first two years he went from an IBM electric...




















