M. Cary & Daughters Plumbing was founded in 1978. While we do plumbing on buildings of all ages, we tend to focus on older homes. This has earned us the reputation as the “Old House Specialists.”
For the past 30 years we have strived to become a household name. We offer the highest quality plumbing services at competitive prices. We are much more than “just a plumbing company.” If you are ONLY price shopping and looking for the least expensive plumbing company in town, we may not be your solution. If, however, you are looking for a plumbing partner for your project (repair or renovation) we will prove an excellent choice.
It all started in 1978, when Mitchel Cary decided that he needed some help with his plumbing business, and he needed to keep his two young daughters busy and out of trouble. So what did he do? He put them to work. Melissa (Missi) Cary (10) and Michelle (Misha) Cary (8) were thrown into an exciting world of demolition and reconstruction.
The girls spent years learning from their Master Plumber father and honing their skills. Melissa and Michelle were featured in the October 1986 Ms Magazine article “Plumbers With A Twist.” They were just 18 and 16 years old. “I want to make them survivors,” says Mitch. “I’ll send them anywhere I’d send a guy. If they’re going to be plumbers, I want them to be the best!”
The girls are often asked why they agreed to go into a predominantly male oriented field. Their response, “We got to make a mess and not get in trouble for it! How great is that?” Besides, the girls were teenagers at the time, and had designer jeans to pay for…
At age 20 Melissa obtained her Master Plumber’s license, and was the youngest female Master Plumber in the Southeast. Having taken over her own truck two years prior, she recruited her sister Michelle as her helper, and the two were happily going from job to job fitting in crawlspaces most guys could only dream of fitting in.
As the company started to grow, Michelle moved into the office to oversee the day-to-day scheduling, special parts ordering, and invoicing. Melissa remains in the field and oversees every aspect of every job, whether it’s physically on the job or just a phone call away.
Author, philosopher and public servant, John W. Gardner provided our “words to plumb by” when he said, “We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”– John Gardner, Excellence
Author Leon M. Cautillo quipped, “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low pricing is forgotten.” This is so true. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than most. We stand by our work 100%. We are just as quick to come back to your site if there is a problem as we were the first time we were called out. This is not a problem for us – as we are almost never faced with a problem from our work.
Founder, Mitchel Cary
