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Plumbing

Everything FLUXATH knows about plumbing for local service businesses — guides, comparisons, costs, and how-tos.

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informational

Two nights a year define a plumbing shop's whole season, and they look nothing alike. One is a hard freeze in…

7 min

cost

Picture a four-truck plumbing shop taking roughly 18 calls a day. Say their live answering service bills by the…

6 min

buyer

A pipe bursts under a slab at 9:40 PM on a Friday. The homeowner calls three plumbers. Two go to voicemail. One…

6 min

comparison

It's 1:40 a.m. A supply line let go behind a washing machine on the second floor. Water's coming through the…

6 min

objection

A pipe bursts under a kitchen sink at 9:40pm on a Tuesday. Water's spreading across the floor. The homeowner grabs…

5 min

local

It's a Tuesday in late January, 9 degrees at Logan, wind off the harbor pushing it into the negative teens with…

5 min

local

Somewhere in Belmont Cragin last January, a supply line in a hundred-year-old two-flat froze solid overnight, then…

5 min

local

It's late June, the humidity's sitting at 90%, and a foundation slab somewhere off Beltway 8 just cracked from…

5 min

local

It's 1:40 a.m. on a Tuesday in late January. Outside it's -19°F with the wind chill, the kind of cold that turns…

5 min

local

It's 11:40 p.m. on a Tuesday in February. A pipe in the wall of a fourth-floor walkup in Astoria just let go — the…

5 min

local

A pipe joint fails behind the plaster in a Fishtown rowhouse built in 1911. It's a Saturday night in January,…

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