Plumbing Council Partners With Cardinals 

ST. LOUIS The St. Louis Plumbing Industry Council, in conjunction with United Association Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562, has become a corporate sponsor...

Home Depot To Sell 

Special to CONTRACTOR ATLANTA The Home Depot has reached an agreement to sell its HD Supply wholesale business to a consortium of private equity firms....

RPA Meeting, REX Trade Show To Sport All-Stars' Theme 

LOVELAND, COLO. Contractors, builders, designers, floor-covering professionals, specifiers and other interested trades are invited to attend the upcoming...

Concept Home Gives Blueprint For Green Houses 

OMAHA, NEB. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in early June completed America's first PATH Concept Home here featuring more than 60...

Service Management Tools For Field Work 

By William and Patti Feldman Computer Authorities Here are two solutions for contractors active in service work. Both take advantage of evolving technologies....

Figuring Water Heater Life-Cycle Costs In 2041 

By Dave Yates Plumbing Contractor Water heater thermal efficiency represents the potential percentage of energy an appliance can move from itself into...

Manufacturers Push 1.28-gpf Toilet Law 

By Robert P. Madeer Of CONTRACTOR'S staff SACRAMENTO, CALIF. The Plumbing Manufacturers Institute has partnered with California Rep. John Laird to establish...

Think Your Kid's Stock Will Survive A Divorce? 

By Irving L. Blackman Tax Authority Are you thinking of transferring stock to your kids, or does one or more of your kids already own stock in your closely...

American Standard Sold to Private Equity Firm 

American Standard Cos. Inc. announced July 23 that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the company's worldwide Bath & Kitchen products business...

Condensing Boilers Save Newspaper Energy, Space 

By Steve Spaulding of Contractor's Staff DUBUQUE, IOWA The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has been publishing since 1850 to a readership in Iowa, Illinois and...

Small Hole In Valve Aids Gravity System 

VIA E-MAIL I have a gravity return line in my home that I personally built (I was an upscale builder). It has worked fine for the past 10 years until...

What's Wrong With This Picture? 

By Patrick Linhardt Hydronic Heating Authority THE CALL: On the line was a contractor who has been a oneman shop since his dad retired from the trade....

ARS Buys San Antonio Contractor 'Will' Fix It 

American Residential Services L.L.C., a privately held, nationwide provider of plumbing and HVAC services, has acquired the Fix It brand, San Antonio,...

Contractor Offices Move To New Address 

Special to Contractor CHICAGO CONTRACTOR's main offices, including those of the publisher and editors, have moved from Des Plaines, Ill., to a new location....

Make lobbying Congress part of business plan 

By Bob Miodonski of Contractor's Staff ARLINGTON, VA. Lobbying members of Congress should be part of every contractor's business plan, lobbyist Michael...

'More than a moral victory' to get home sprinklers in code 

By Robert P. Mader Of contractor's staff ROCHESTER, N. Y. Proponents of residential fire sprinklers are cheered by an International Code Council Code...

In Brief 

Dunbar Mechanical has acquired the assets of Groskopf Engineering, a Sylvania, Ohio, mechanical systems test and balance firm. Dunbar is a full-service...

Innovative and Orthodox Synagogue uses latest technology 

By Steve Spaulding Of Contractor's Staff BROOKLYN, N.Y. Kal Rotenberg, owner and chief designing engineer of Iceman Mechanical, describes the Lorimer...

Edwards Engineering comes to condo's rescue 

Special to Contractor CHICAGO Imagine the basement of your home filling up with thousands of gallons of water. That's a very brief synopsis of what faced...

Sustainable buildings standard to define green buildings: ASHRAE 

ATLANTA A proposed new standard that will provide minimum guidelines for green building practices is nearing completion. Applicable to new commercial...

N.J. Master Plumbers tout insurance success 

Special to Contractor TRENTON, N.J. When New Jersey one-man plumbing shops buy health insurance through insurance administrator Association Master Trust,...

Contractors, union kill watered-down licensing 

BATON ROUGE, LA. Banding with several hundred other Louisiana plumbing contractors from the Mechanical Contractors Association of America and United Association...

Device aims to halt backflow preventer thefts 

LAKE ELSINORE, CALIF. Building developer/contractor Byron Bishop has been in the construction business for more than 30 years and is a victim of metal...

Add-ons work like magic 

By Matt Michel CEO, Service Roundtable THE EASIEST WAY to boost your company's profitability is to increase add-on sales during service calls. For a profitable...

Be part of solving labor development issue 

By Jo Wagner Special to Contractor THE MAY ISSUE of CONTRACTOR did a wonderful job of addressing the workforce development issues facing the p-h-c industry....

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