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Service Nation Inc. and BNP Media announce new partnership to create Service World Expo

November 10, 2015

Service World Expo will serve residential contractors in HVAC, plumbing and electrical services.

Tool Tips: outside drain lines, recycled PVC, hand truck

June 2, 2015

Tool Tips—May 2015

Seminars, tours key to Quality Service Contractors meeting

The QSC Power Meeting XLII was held Feb. 26-28, 2015 at the Chaparral Suites Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Jack Sweet

April 24, 2015

Highlights of the QSC Power Meeting XLII in Scottsdale included an extensive afternoon tour of the 30,000–sq.-ft. headquarters of George Brazil Plumbing.

TOOL TIPS

Easy toilet flapper replacement, removing foreign objects from toilets, another use for garbage bags

Tool Tips: December 2014

January 31, 2015

Easy toilet flapper replacement.

Size can matter

This is what I share with contractors about company size.

Al Levi

January 12, 2015

Can your service area allow you to grow to the company size you want to be or need to be?

PM’s 2015 Best-Looking Truck Contest

Check out these great-looking plumbing and heating contractor trucks!

December 15, 2014

Plumbing & Mechanical chose this year’s Best-Looking Trucks and selected these plumbing and heating contractor companies.

TOOL TIPS

Pressure-testing PEX plumbing, ergonomic pipe wrenches, repairing nut driver magnet

Tool Tips: November 2014

November 26, 2014

When pressure-testing a Manabloc and PEX system with air, after rough-in, I shut off all valves on the Manabloc, leaving pressure in each individual line.

Dog-gone it

The 500-pound dog in the room.

Al Levi

November 17, 2014

The 500-pound dog in the room is the question about whether or not to allow dogs at work.

Dexter + Chaney employee access and workflow software

October 27, 2014

Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum Employee Kiosk and Subcontract Kiosk allow authorized employees and subcontractors of companies that use Spectrum secure access to the system without the need for additional user licenses.

Basement cleanout, PVC spacers, pipe storage

Tool Tips—August 2014

October 25, 2014

When opening an overhead cleanout in the basement, tie a heavy-duty plastic trashbag around the cleanout, leaving room to get your hand in to remove the cleanout plug that you previously loosened. Cut a small corner of the trashbag bottom and put a 5-gal. bucket under the hole.