Success Stories : Top Drain Cleaning Machines and Tools

Kansas City Contractor Finds an Easier Way to Locate Pipe and Sewer Cameras

“We have a great name to protect,” says Tim Rogers, in charge of sewer and drain-cleaning operations for R-Mech Heating Cooling & Plumbing. “That’s why we carefully research and choose all our equipment!” And that’s why R-Mech’s video-inspection services count on the Hot Spot® Pipe Locator from General Pipe Cleaners.

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Category: Diagnostic Tools

Oregon Plumbing Pro Cuts Roots and Downtime With General’s Maxi-Rooter®

A lot changes in a decade, but for A. Pederson’s Plumbing in Dallas, Oregon, you wouldn’t know it by looking at one of the Maxi-Rooters from General Pipe Cleaners coming off the company’s trailer. Pederson’s two Maxi-Rooters have been the company’s go-to machines for more than 10 years, and with the exception of the feed bearings, they retain all their original components, including the original Flexicore® cable.

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Category: Drain Cleaning

Wisconsin Plumbing Pro’s Drain Cleaning Equipment Includes Operational 50-Year-Old Machine From General Pipe Cleaners!

How about a working drain cleaning machine in active service for 50 years? After working several years for a local plumber, Schmitz started his company in 1979. And a year later, he bought a used, 1968-vintage General Sewermatic drain cleaner with paperwork from a retiring competitor. “It’s still running strong today – over 50 years later!” Schmitz smiles. “And I’ve got the original parts list to prove it!”

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Category: Drain Cleaning, Rental

Renting Reliable Drain Cleaners Boosts Profitability

Unlike many items, drain cleaning equipment remains in year-round demand. And Higgins cites superior ease-of-use, safety features, reliability, and turn-around as reasons for crediting Tweedy Lumber’s drain cleaning success to Easy Rooter™.

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Category: Rental

General Pipe Cleaners Model 88 Saves Graduation Party

The grease-choked 120 ft main drain line of a large Philadelphia Chinese restaurant suddenly backed-up. And the stoppage threatened to derail a major graduation party with hundreds of guests.

That’s when Just Drains LLC rode to rescue with a Model 88™ sectional drain cleaner from General Pipe Cleaners.

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Category: Drain Cleaning

The Flexicore Advantage Boosts Productivity and Profitability!

General Wire Spring founder Abe Silverman first coiled spring wire tightly around a wire rope core in the 1940s. Since then, generations of plumbing and drain cleaning professionals swear by the “Flexicore advantage” – matchless cable strength, kinking resistance, and flexibility.

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Category: Drain Cleaning

General Marks 90 Years of Drain Cleaning Industry Leadership

With nearly a century of knowledge of market needs and superior equipment reliability, General Pipe Cleaners has forged robust reputation for turning “good ideas” into “great products” for decades. Now multiple generations of the General family and workforce are celebrating the company’s 90th anniversary 2020! Customer satisfaction, trustworthy tools, creative solutions, continual product improvements, and solid equipment have fueled nearly a century of success – and industry leadership. And it all began in 1930.

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Category: Diagnostic Tools, Kinetic Water Ram, More Success Stories, Sewer Cameras, Water Jets

General Pipe Cleaners Keeps Drain Cleaning Rentals Profitable

“When you’re renting drain cleaning equipment nearly every day, you need tough, reliable machines.”

So says Von Hunn, owner of Garden True Value Hardware, Garden City, KS.

In business for nearly two decades, Hunn’s facility serves residential and commercial rental customers in southwest Kansas. And drain cleaning forms a “significant” slice of his business.

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Category: Rental

Extending the Life of Your Drain Cleaning Cables — As Easy as 1, 2, 3!

I was hanging out in the General Pipe Cleaner’s booth at the WWETT show in Indianapolis talking to customers when I met Michael Jackson. No… not the Michael Jackson of moonwalk fame; the plumber from Indianapolis! He might not have sold as many gold records as his namesake, but after talking to him for 15 minutes I was convinced that he had talents that would make his peers green with envy.

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Success Stories

An upscale, single-story house in Pittsburgh’s North Hills suffered severe sewer fly infestation. Enter Urban Plumbing Inc. – with their Gen-Eye X-POD Plus® sewer camera system and Hot Spot® digital pipe locator from General Pipe Cleaners. Read More
Al Urban Pittsburgh, PA
“Gen-Eye camera systems easily and accurately spot trouble in sewer lines – diapers, cell phones, toys – you name it,” James Capelli says. “But a boa constrictor tops them all!” The snake somehow migrated to the women’s restroom of a commercial…
James Capelli San Leandro, CA
The sewer line clogged at a Tulsa OK residential property. The frantic renter immediately called a local plumber – who demanded $1,500 for excavation and repair. But the landlord contacted Chris Wade, owner of Precision Plumbing, instead. For 20 years, Precision has…
Chris Wade Tulsa, OK