Articles by Steve Smith

Rennick must have found his better mousetrap because last year American Leak Detection reported $21 million in systemwide sales.

PM columnist Maurice Maio recently re-purchased Maio Marketing from American Residential Services.

Manufacturers say there is an expanded marketing opportunity for shower products.

The future of radiant heat may be above your head rather than below your feet — that is, for the installer.

How to deal with this new reality of your business was presented by communications consultant Bob Aronson before the latest Contractor 2000 Super Meeting XII, March 5–7, in Vancouver, Canada.

Dream projects can turn very quickly into expensive nightmares.

A free service doesn’t have to mean money down the drain.

Assuring mechanical contractors that the United Association will grow and expand as never before, UA General President Martin Maddaloni promised to back his message with the power inherent in the union’s $50 billion pension fund.

In the following Q&A, Maio describes what’s happening with his companies and what may be in store for the rest of the industry.

“Ask The Home Ranger,” a PHC radio show created by the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Information Bureau, may become part of a new radio network currently being developed by the House & Garden cable network.