Glenn Rawson got his certifying ticket in 1986. Forty years on, Glenn and Emma run the business out of 2 Daphne Street with thirteen tradesmen — and one of them is their son.
From a one-man trade in 1986 to a four-discipline yard. The work hasn't changed; the team has.
Glenn started where every plumber starts — apprenticed up, got the certifying ticket, then put the gasfitting and drainlaying tickets on top. The company in its current form was incorporated in 2004 with Emma Rawson as co-director, but the trade history runs back nearly two decades before that.
The way the company grew was simple: a plumber needs a gasfitter, a drainlayer needs a digger, and a Waipa roof leak doesn't care which one of them turns up. So we kept hiring tickets, kept training apprentices, and kept the lot under one roof.
Mitch Rawson is on the books as an apprentice now. The third generation, technically, if you count Glenn's own apprenticeship as the first.
Real tradesmen, not a stock photo. If you've had us on your job, the chances are it was one of these people on the tools.