Our History
Our History
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Earl Schmidt was introduced to the plumbing profession when he was just 10 years old when he began working as a shop boy for the Lou Stevens Company in Highland Heights, KY. He continued to work there throughout the years and went out on plumbing jobs, as he got older.
He began his first apprenticeship when he graduated from high school. He became a member of the Plumbers Local Union #59 in 1966. He worked for the Lou Stevens Company until it was sold to the Kuempel Company in 1970. He worked there for about 11 years until things got slow, and he decided to go into business on his own.
The E. C. Schmidt Plumbing Company officially started business in January 1981 in Alexandria, Kentucky, with just one plumbing employee at the time. The business was set up in a basement. His wife, Deborah, did all the secretarial work and answered the phone. Their two young daughters, Shawna and Shelly, even worked with us helping us in the late hours of the night adding up estimates for bids and cleaning the office.
In 1983 the name of the company was changed to Schmidt E C Plumbing Contractor Inc. Earl Schmidt was the President of the company and his wife Deborah, was the Secretary/Treasurer.
The oldest daughter, Shawna, officially started working full time for the company in 1988 answering phones and doing office work. Shawna married one of our plumbers, Len Kopp, in 1992. Both still work for the company. Even their two daughters, Vanessa & Miranda, helped out in the office while they were growing up and are working in the office to date.
On May 29, 1997, our company was selected as one of eight recipients of a 1996 Outstanding Subcontractor Award from the Turner Construction Company. The nominations for the awards came from the jobsite staff and were based upon overall job performance, considering pre-construction, managing, engineering, scheduling, expediting, quality of work, safety, relations with others, pricing, cooperation, and expertise in the plumbing field.
Schmidt E C Plumbing Contractor Inc was selected in particular for the work on the Toyota North American Headquarters renovation in Erlanger, KY.
In July 2005, Earl Schmidt won a contest on Q-102’s radio station for the Hottest Plumber in the Tri-State Area. Our company now has an average of 15 to 20 employees and we are members of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 392. All our employees are licensed and certified in the following:
- Certified for medical gas
- Certified for backflow prevention
- Certified plumbers
- Certified welders
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