drain cleaners
quote; There is a saying that you can take a guy that started out in drain cleaning and he is good at it, and get him into plumbing he will make a great plumber. But if you take a guy that started out doing plumbing and try to get him into drain cleaning later he will make a horrible drain cleaner.
I am not sure who thought up that saying, but I can almost guarantee it was a drain cleaner converted to a plumber. You can learn drain cleaning in a couple of months, but it takes years to become a good plumber. RR started out as a drain cleaner ONLY firm, and then made their "technicians" into "90 day wonder" plumbers just like the army used their OCS to produce "qualified officers". There is NO plumber, assuming he really knows the business, which is less than the majority of them, who cannot become proficient in cleaning the majority of drains in a week or so of intensive training. The ones who cannot use the equipment proper, are the ones who should not be doing it, just like the drain cleaners who cannot fix a faucet should not be doing plumbing. I have been cleaning drains AND doing plumbing for 55+ years, and have NEVER called another company to bail me out, BUT I have gone back on many cleaning jobs done by plumbers AND RR type firms, to do the job properly.