John Mesenbrink

The kitchen sink being attendees, that is. PHCC CONNECT, this past October 25-27, was set up for one of those “best-ever” shows. Beautiful downtown Cleveland was the backdrop to very a good week of meetings, connections, site visits and much more. Oh, and the weather didn’t hurt either, with temps lingering in the mid-70s. RIDGID Read more

Mary-Anne Bowcott (@the_ladyplumber) is a testament to perseverance and hard work. In a male-dominant industry, now a successful business owner, she is blazing the trail for women to look at trades in a different light. Mary-Anne Bowcott has come a long way from the days of living on a farm— which housed a few hundred Read more

Our good friend Mike Prencavage Jr., owner of The Family Plumber, Los Alamitos, Calif., and president of PHCC CA-ORSB, and some of his California PHCC constituents, recently took a tour of SoCalGas’s [H2] Innovation Experience and new model net zero home. “We were fortunate to visit the SoCalGas facility in Downey, Calif., more specifically a Read more

Mechanical Hub’s John Mesenbrink pent the day at UA’s annual Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Mich. Tom Bigley, director of plumbing services, UA, was my gracious host. As a first time attendee, I was super impressed with the event, from the classrooms to the training truck labs to the apprenticeship contests. The video below Read more

Setting the gun sight on a trophy elk in Colorado is a bucket list item, for sure. As an avid outdoorsman, Patrick Finley (@commercial_kitchen_chronicles) loves to fish, hunt and camp every chance he gets. “It is a goal of mine to get into shape and live in the wilderness and take a trophy bull,” says Finley Read more