At the ripe age of 15, my first job was feeding a Tommy Gun in the warm Arizona summer sun. In 1986, I received my plastering contractor’s license in New Mexico. Two years later, I received my general contractor’s license, allowing us to perform multiple trades. As our volume of business grew, so did our reputation of professionally pumping large projects in a timely manner. Basically, if we couldn’t pump it, we let it go to the other guys.
Circa the late ’90s, when we were approached by USG Levelrock to become its area applicator of gypsum flooring underlayment, USG was asking contractors in our area who the production “pumpers” were, and our company was mentioned several times. USG indicated they would help us bid and pour our first job; however, we’d have to purchase a $55,000 pump from a third party to perform the work.