The Up-To-Code Team

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  • NAME: Mike Paul, Owner and Operator
  • AGE: 32
  • HEIGHT: 5’11”
  • NICKNAME: Boss
  • FORMAL TRAINING: Journeyman Plumber, Red Seal, 1st Class Gasfitter
  • FAVOURITE TOOL: Channel locks, felt marker, PDA, tape measure
  • BIRTHPLACE: City of Champions
  • PIPE WRENCH TIME: 2008=122 sec. 2007=111.6 sec. Average =116.8 sec
  • ENJOYS: Traveling, hiking, skiing, hockey, and hanging out with family (Wife is Tula, dog and cat)
  • ATTRIBUTES: Can get the job done on time & on budget
  • FUNNY TRUE STORY:
    My life flashed before my eyes repairing a leak in a stairwell. I had a 3 foot sawhorse ladder setup straddling the top 3 steps of the stairwell at a 45 degree angle. My apprentice was spotting me, holding a bucket to catch water and passing me tools. Throughout the 20 minute repair the ladder seemed solid so I asked my apprentice to start packing up the tools. With only one more pipe to flux off I stretched and that was when time stood still. The fall probably only took 1 second but it seemed like an eternity. The ladder rolled and I came down ass first onto the side of it, facing the 8 foot plummet and jagged stairs. I flailed my arms trying to grab a pipe…nothing…a railing…it was an old house so no railings…I looked for my apprentice to break the fall – it’s so hard to find a good apprentice these days?…there was nothing soft to help at the bottom of the stairs! I thought I was finished. The ladder tumbled underneath me and I turned and was facing the ceiling, gaining speed. The ladder landed with its 4 metal legs sticking up waiting to either catch or stake me. As for tools my pockets were filled – screw drivers, pipe cutters, drywall saw, exacto knife-was the blade retracted or had I given it to the apprentice? The end of the fall went quickly….I was sitting on the ground beside my neatly folded ladder looking at the stairs & my apprentices’ horrified face…I expected it to be bad and tried to move & was miraculously unscathed. Up-To-Code would be happy to come work for you and promise we won’t fall down your stairs!
  • LENGTH OF EMPLOYMENT WITH UTC: Founder

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  • NAME: Brandon Abel
  • HEIGHT: 5’11”
  • FAVOURITE TOOL: Dan’s hacksaw
  • BIRTHPLACE: Campbell River, BC
  • ENJOYS: The beach
  • RELATED EXPERIENCE: Dug ditches for centra gas & dug outhouse holes at family cabin.
  • FORMAL TRAINING: Safe Start Training, Scuba Ticket
  • EMPLOYED WITH UTC SINCE: January 5, 2009

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  • NAME: David Farrell
  • AGE: 32
  • HEIGHT: 5’8”
  • NICKNAME: Dave
  • FORMAL TRAINING: 3rd Year Plumbing Apprenticeship
  • FAVOURITE TOOL: Pipe Wrench
  • BIRTHPLACE: Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • PIPE WRENCH TIME: 2008=128 sec. 2007=156.1 sec. Average=142.05 sec
  • ATTRIBUTES: I’m a nice guy!
  • PETS: A dog and a cat
  • FUNNY TRUE STORY:
    I might be the only guy to lose a pair of boots while working. I took my boots off to work in a house and when I went to leave the boots were gone. To make matters worse it was about -20c in the winter. Watch out for those cable guys!!
  • EMPLOYED WITH UTC SINCE: August 22, 2006

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