Plain answers about commercial plumbing.
For GCs, facility directors and property managers: the questions we get on the phone, written down.
Medical gas verification: what to expect and why it fails
The independent verification is the last gate on a medical gas system. Here is what the verifier tests, what fails most often, and how we have kept corrections at zero.
Grease interceptor sizing: why the health inspector and the plumbing inspector disagree
Restaurant owners get caught between two codes. Here is how sizing actually works in East Valley jurisdictions and what to decide before the slab is poured.
Five reasons a new hydronic system does not perform, none of them the chiller
When a brand-new chilled water plant will not hold temperature, the chiller is almost never the problem. The piping usually is.
Annual backflow testing: what property managers are actually responsible for
Every commercial property has backflow assemblies, every water provider requires annual tests, and most property managers find out when the notice arrives. Here is the routine.
Underground plumbing on a tilt-up: three mistakes that cost the GC a week
The underground is the first plumbing work on the site and the hardest to fix. These are the mistakes we see on other people's jobs.
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