In early February ServiceMaster announced its intent to sell American Residential Services and American Mechanical Services, the heating-cooling and plumbing units, which have dragged down profits.
PARK ELECTROCHEMICAL CORP., Lake Success, N.Y., a maker of circuit board components, closed its plumbing hardware unit, eliminating about 30 jobs.
We've combined two units and have plumbing available where the second unit's kitchen used to be.
This included adding its own heating, ventilation and air-conditioning unit, additional plumbing and tiling for showers and whirlpools and additional electrical equipment for the sauna and commercial laundry machines.
Crews traced the gas back to the unit's plumbing system, which was replaced, Villanueva said.
Nearly 30 households were displaced Saturday night after a plumbing issue in a unit of an old Glendale apartment complex caused the release of a flammable, highly toxic gas, officials said.
At Gillette Company in Boston, Patrick Zilvitis lashed together the digital plumbing for five business units that had operated as a cluster of distinct companies.
After a restoration that involved a new roof, shingles and wiring, as well as updated plumbing, a four-zone HVAC unit and a Bose sound system, the case could be made that a farmhouse built for the long haul is approaching ageless elegance.
Landlords are subdividing family homes into smaller and smaller units, haphazardly extending plumbing and electricity connections from the main properties into the garden sheds and garages, which they have no problem in renting out.
Because many of the nation's public housing apartments are buckling under a $25.6 billion backlog of repair and replacement costs, public housing owners must often make tough choices between repairing roofs and replacing plumbing -- or worse, demolishing units altogether -- because there simply isn't enough money to go around.
