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Articles Tagged with ''plumbers and pipefitters''

Tool Tips: Organization and cleanliness

Tool Tips — October 2019
October 23, 2019

On our trucks, we keep all our soldering material, such as solder, paste, pipe cutters, emery cloth, inspection mirror and other miscellaneous items, in small tackle boxes.


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The Glitch and Fix: Dampened response

October 23, 2019

An installer is asked to pipe two independent zones of high mass floor heating to a conventional gas-fired boiler.


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Nepean, Ontario-based Safari Plumbing

Truck of the Month: Safari Plumbing

Safari Plumbing | Nepean, Ontario, Canada
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Nicole Krawcke
October 21, 2019

David Sparling started working for his father’s plumbing company in 1979. By the time Sparling took over the small family business, known as Sparling Plumbing, he decided he needed to start fresh. So he folded Sparling Plumbing and founded Safari Plumbing in 2006.


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Whiteside

PM Profile: MIFAB grows into a bigger space

Chicago-based manufacturer celebrates the groundbreaking of a 68,000-square foot expansion.
Nadia Askar
Nadia Askar
October 16, 2019

BNP Media Plumbing Group Multimedia Editor Nadia Askar recently sat down with Michael Whiteside, president and owner of Chicago-based MIFAB.


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Nicole Krawcke

Nicole Krawcke: Managing millennials

Don't write off an entire generation.
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Nicole Krawcke
October 14, 2019

I’ve traveled quite a bit during my five-plus years with BNP Media — first covering the HVAC industry, and now plumbing.


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Medical center gets hands-free handwashing upgrades

Medical center gets hands-free handwashing upgrades

Sloan’s Optima Control Box and Connect app allows maintenance staff to proactively manage water from a smartphone.
Andrew Warnes
October 14, 2019

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the largest academic medical centers in the Southeast, managing more than 2 million patient visits each year.


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Matt Michel

Matt Michel: 9 lies small contractors tell themselves

Invest in a business that works for you, rather than the reverse.
Matt Michel
Matt Michel
October 10, 2019

All contractors start small, though no contractor needs to remain small. Sadly, when plumbers remain small, it is usually because they tell themselves one of the following nine lies.


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Viega’s state-of-the-art Colorado Seminar Center

New Colorado Seminar Center takes education to next level for manufacturer’s customers

Viega gets hands-on.
Mike-Miazga
Mike Miazga
October 9, 2019

Viega wowed the PHCP-PVF industry in 2006 with the opening of its New Hampshire Seminar Center in Nashua.


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Dave Yates

Dave Yates: The doctor is in

Contractors offer customers peace of mind with solutions to indoor comfort and plumbing problems.
Dave Yates
Dave Yates
October 9, 2019

How to become a psychologist and therapist in one easy lesson: Open a mechanical contracting firm!


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Colorado contractor installs a fast, more flexible firestop sleeve

Colorado contractor installs a fast, more flexible firestop sleeve

Firestop solution offers more efficiency on the jobsite.
Darlene Byrne
October 7, 2019

Spencer Bell has been a fan of HoldRite plumbing brackets and the TESTRITE DWV testing system for years. So recently, when he heard that HoldRite had innovated the cast-in-place firestop sleeve process, he didn’t waste time learning more about it.


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