'Exotic plumbing'

Executives at Florida Pipe-Lining Solutions, a Sarasota-based plumbing and pipe restoration firm, are fully behind the Gulf Coast construction industry resurgence.

But it's the old buildings, from homes to hospitals, that really get Florida Pipe-Lining Executive Vice President Randy Hromyak pumped about plumbing. That's because the firm offers what Hromyak calls the industry's leading alternative to tearing open walls and floors to reach damaged and exposed pipes. The firm, instead, restores pipes from the inside under a patented process. Florida Pipe-Lining technicians then clean the pipes with pressurized air and sand, and add an epoxy barrier coating to make the pipes work like new.

“I call it exotic plumbing,” says Hromyak. “We think unconventionally about plumbing.”