Mr. Waterheater keeps Pittsburgh market hot
BY BOB MIODONSKI OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF PITTSBURGH Using a variety of marketing methods, Mr. Waterheater sells and delivers from 400 to 500 water heaters...
Without tort reform, good firms will fail
BY JO RAE WAGNER SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR BY NOW EVERYONE acquainted with me knows my determination to fight for tort reform for the construction industry....
Multiple modulating boilers more efficient: Siegenthaler
SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR TORONTO, CANADA Contractors should team up multiple smaller boilers to handle a large load, hydronic engineer John Siegenthaler...
Buyers should hire trades to inspect homes
ODESSA, FLA. Dave Yates' column in April ("Home inspections can lead to legal tangles," pg. 30) hit home on more than one occasion. My first introduction...
Inspection column 'flawed'
VIA E-MAIL I read Dave Yates' column "Home inspections can lead to legal tangles" (April, pg. 30). As a home inspector, I can only say how sad it is to...
PHCC continues to lobby for health plans
BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF WASHINGTON Unsuccessful last year in attempts to get association health plans passed through the U.S. Senate,...
Inspections 'aggravating'
TAMPA, FLA. After reading Dave Yates' column in the April CONTRACTOR magazine ("Home inspections can lead to legal tangles," pg. 30), I became even more...
Need to update estimating methods
TULSA, OKLA. I have been trying to locate Ottaviano's estimating books for several years but cannot locate updated versions. Where is Kent Craig's source...
Pennies from heaven
ISH displays common-sense rainwater and gray-water systems that stretch potable water supplies. BY DAVE YATES SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR Potable drinking-quality...
Conflicting standards create potential dangers
BY BILL MORRIS SPECIAL TO CONTRACTOR IMAGINE TRYING TO referee a football game with two sets of rulebooks. One rulebook says a receiver needs to have...
OPEN Prototype House Initiative Begins Testing
BOSTON, MASS AND WALPOLE, NH The OPEN Prototype Initiative, led by the MIT Open Source Building Alliance (OSBA) and Bensonwood Homes, has announced it...
Contractor's top ten by type of work
Fire protection Rank Company/Location $Millions 29 S.A. Comunale Co. Inc., Barberton, Ohio $100.46 42 VSC/Virginia Sprinkler Corp., Ashland, Va. $91.10...
Skills Can Be Donated to Help Troops
KANSAS CITY, MO. Since it began in June 2004, the Unmet Needs Program has given money to more than 200 American military families facing financial hardships...
Contractors Must Cut Supply Chain Costs
BY William Atkinson, Special to CONTRACTOR CONTRACTORS, WHOLESALERS and manufacturers in the traditional supply chain make too many errors and then have...
Nexstar's Top Firms for Satisfying Customers
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN. Delivering satisfaction to residential and commercial customers is the critical key to a service providers growth and longevity,...
Plumbers Lend Expertise To 'Makeover' Job
By William Atkinson, Special to CONTRACTOR HICKSVILLE, N.Y When ABC-TVs Extreme Makeover: Home Edition arrived in late March on Long Island to help a...
EMCOR Wins $150 Million in Health-care Jobs
NORWALK, CONN. EMCOR Group Inc. announced that it has been awarded contracts for a number of major healthcare projects across the U.S., Canada and the...
Pay Service Workers to Be More, Not Less, Productive
By BOB MIODONSKI, of CONTRACTORs staff SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Most plumbing service companies have developed a system of paying their field employees in a...
Contractors to Get Service Operation Tips
WHITE BEAR LAKE, MINN Best practices group Nexstar is giving independent plumbing, heating and cooling contractors an opportunity to learn more about...
Hudson Joins Contractor to Offer Marketing Strategies
DES PLAINES, ILL. Marketing expert Adams Hudson joins CONTRACTOR this month with a monthly column. His first column, which addresses plumbing contractors...
Meeting Draws 500 to New Zealand
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND The Seventh World Plumbing Conference, held in early March here, attracted more than 500 delegates, representing 15 countries. Opened...
How Plumbing Standards Can Slow Innovation
By R. Bruce Martin, Special to CONTRACTOR National plumbing standards are important because they help protect public health and safety. While there is...
Advocate Urges Contractors to Become 'Green' Leaders
BY BOB MIODONSKI of CONTRACTORs staff SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Mechanical contractors are ideally situated to make a significant impact on the green building...
Contractors in the News
Contractors THE PLUMBING, HEATING and Cooling Contractors Association of Lake and McHenry Counties, Ill., has named David Ariano of Ravinia Plumbing and...
UA, Calif. PHCC Clash on Open Shop Apprentice Program
BY ROBERT P. MADER of CONTRACTORs staff SACRAMENTO, CALIF. The California Pipe Trades Council and the California Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors...
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