RapidView names marketing manager, begins expansion RapidView named Scott Sayger marketing and communication manager. He has 10 years experience in marketing and public relations, radio and television production and Web design. The company also began an expansion and remodel of its Rochester, Ind., facility. The project, which will double the size of the current facility, [...]
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Laying Old Ways to Rest
May 22nd, 2013 
StuartRoth For years, Air Services/All Service Plumbing in Springfield, Mo., replaced broken residential sewer lateral lines the conventional way: excavating customers’ well-groomed lawns or busting up driveways, sidewalks and patios to install new lines. But that all changed in mid-2011 when the company invested about $ 30,000 in an UnderTaker trenchless pipe replacement system made by [...]
Easing the Pain
May 22nd, 2013 StuartRoth The prices of gasoline and diesel fuel continues to bounce around, driven by everything from volatile weather to volatile world politics. Considering plumbers and drain cleaners rely on their vehicle fleet to do business, keeping your fuel costs low — and, equally important, keeping them stable and predictable — will likely rank right up near [...]
Solutions That Fit
May 22nd, 2013 StuartRoth When aging sewer lines in Detroit and the surrounding area begin to fail, Inland Waters Pollution Control, a division of IPR, is one of the first calls utility officials make … especially if the problem is complicated. For Joe Cutillo, president and chief executive officer of IPR, the nation’s largest privately held trenchless solutions contractor, [...]
Dangerous Business
May 21st, 2013 StuartRoth Gary Toothe has seen enough injuries and deaths in his years to realize that hydroexcavation involves much more than a water hose and vacuum. “There’s a huge void in training,” says the training manager for Federal Signal’s Environmental Products Group, who also spent decades in private business dealing with such equipment. The most common mistake, [...]
Ready for the Test
May 21st, 2013 StuartRoth Visual inspection and routine maintenance are the two keys to ensuring the longevity and safe operation of liquid-containing tanks. When the remaining thickness of a tank wall is in doubt, ultrasonic testing can provide a definitive measurement, either at a given point, or across a broader spectrum of locations. An electronic ultrasonic thickness gauge (UTG) [...]
Municipal and Industrial Sewer and Pipe Maintenance
May 21st, 2013 StuartRoth Truck-Mounted Jetter The TM Series of truck-mounted drain and sewer jetters from Cam Spray is built on a heavy steel platform that can be forklifted into place and secured to the bed of a trailer or truck body. They are designed for cleaning up to 10-inch-diameter drainlines, with available custom packages that will clean up [...]
Product News – June 2013
May 21st, 2013 StuartRoth Coxreels air, clean fluid transfer reels Pure Flow Series reels from Coxreels are designed for air and clean fluid transfer applications. Available in spring rewind, hand crank and motorized retraction models, the reels have non-corrosive air and fluid paths machined from high-quality stainless steel, full-flow swivel and Nitrile, non-toxic, food-grade seals. 800/269-7335; www.coxreels.com. HammerHead 34-inch [...]
Piercing tool’s interchangeable heads add increased productivity
May 21st, 2013 StuartRoth The Vermeer Hole Hammer pneumatic piercing tool manufactured by the McLaughlin Group can be fitted with either a standard replaceable head or spring-reset moving head assembly. The multiple-head design enables contractors to use one tool in a variety of soil conditions. The tool can be powered by most standard towable air compressors delivering 150 psi, [...]
In Her Father’s Footsteps
May 20th, 2013 StuartRoth Since she first began working at Roto-Rooter of Fort Worth in 1987, Kim Miller knew she wanted to eventually own her own franchise, so when her father and company owner Bob Davis decided to retire in 2008, she embraced the opportunity to carry on the family tradition. “I was extremely excited about the business part [...]
