When General Pipe Cleaners trains a new Drain Brain for our customer service department, one of the first things that we teach is how to recommend the right drain cleaning tool for the job. After all, this happens to be the most important step to successfully opening a drain, and opening the drain is the…
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.
A two-building Aberdeen, South Dakota, office complex suffered constant sewer line back-ups. Local topography forced the facility’s new 300-foot sewer line into an “essentially flat” connection to city services. Authorities would not pay for a pump, and stoppages simply worsened with time. Enter Aberdeen Plumbing & Heating Services, Inc. with their brawny JM-3055 water jet…
Question: What happens when Philadelphia plumbers need drain cleaning tools and talent? Answer: They call Michael Williams at Just Drains LLC. A third-generation drain cleaning pro, Williams built a unique business model around subcontracting drain cleaning services to over 350 regional plumbers. “The US drain cleaning industry is humongous,” he notes. “but not every…
Ten-thousand dollars! That’s what a national drain cleaning franchise wanted to repair recurring clogs in a 37-year-old Oberlin, Ohio, apartment complex. “They claimed they had to bust up the first floor laundry room concrete and hallway to replace the pipe and fix the problem permanently,” maintenance staffer Gary Schakel recalls. “But, I had other ideas.”…
It all started with a clogged sewer line at a Tulsa, Okla., residential property. The frantic renter immediately called a local plumber, who demanded $1,500 to dig-up and repair the problem. But the landlord had other ideas and, instead contacted Chris Wade, owner of Precision Plumbing. For 20 years, Precision has guarded an outstanding reputation…
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