Joe's Job: Plumber

by Joe Flanagan, 13News Now

WVEC.com

Posted on February 5, 2014 at 1:30 PM

Updated today at 2:03 PM

NORFOLK -- I was training with Vince Heine who's been a plumber for over thirty years. We had to install a couple of sinks and a shower in an apartment on the third floor of a building near the Norfolk Zoo.

"This will take quite a few hours, probably about three," Heine said.

Heine is part of an 18-man team that travels in nine trucks for Norfolk Plumbing. You may have heard of them -- they're the guys located near the Midtown Tunnel who claim the pounding from constructing the new tunnel caused one of their buildings to buckle.

This day, our job was a welcome relief. During the recent snowfall and freeze plumbers across Hampton Roads were extremely busy.

"Me and my helper Carlos put in 73 hours," Heine noted.

"We took 160-plus calls in two days," said Norfolk Plumbing owner Jeff Hux. "So it was pretty active. We had some crews out working till one in the morning, two nights in a row."

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