Articles by Bob Miodonski

Long Mechanical celebrates 60 years of innovation and customer service.

Taco sees growth in system approach; contractors can expect to see technology advances.

Contractors see consistency, labor savings and versatility as advantages of press fittings.

Skip Pfeffer sees opportunities for plumbing contractors.

Companies that have survived the recession, such as those represented at Quality Service Contractors Power Meeting XXXI July 16-18 in Colorado Springs, Colo., should be proud of their accomplishments.

While not exactly the plumbing industry’s answer to Cash for Clunkers, homeowners can get a rebate on their old water heater when they trade it in for a model qualified under the EPA’s Energy Star program.

I look at the 8.6 billion bottles of water Americans consumed in 2008 as an opportunity that many plumbing contractors should cash in on.

The day after viewing PowerPoint presentations on the future of plumbing, members of the Plumbing Manufacturers Institute boarded a bus for a field trip to Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., to see the future in person.

My elation at booking a $34 hotel room on The Strip in Las Vegas was tempered somewhat by the reason my room was so cheap.

Contractors should become experts in sustainable construction so that architects, GCs and property managers don’t claim it as their exclusive domain.