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About Our Business and Our Community Family owned Plumbing, Drain Cleaning, Water Heating for over 60 years in Orlando and Central Florida. In 1950 George Shrode and his wife Ruth started a Plumbing Business called George Shrode Plumbing Company, based in Orlando ( Orange County ) Florida. Soon the business moved from the south side of Orlando to the Edgewater / Lee Road area with an all new office, shop, warehouse and the first Plumbing Showroom in Orlando. The business grew and prospered. By the middle 1960's a larger location was needed. Shrode Plumbing & Mechanical Co. Inc, relocated further north to the Lockhart area, covering three acres at the north end of Pine Hills Road. Shrode businesses here included Central Sanitation Company and North Orlando Plumbing Supplies, both selling materials and operating from the same Overland Road location. Business growth continued with the Disney boom. Soon all of Central Florida was covered. Each city and county had their own Plumbing License. Plumbing Contractor Licenses between George and Norman ( the second generation Shrode Plumber ) took up two filing cabinet drawers. Norman ( after passing the Journeyman plumber test in 1967 at age 19 and Master Plumbing test at age 20 ) successfully passed the first offered State of Florida Certified Plumbing Contractor Exam. Shrode Plumbing & Mechanical Co., Inc, in addition to a full load of Residential Plumbing, was now doing Commercial and Industrial Plumbing and Air Conditioning for Schools, Factories and Hospitals. Doing four to five million dollars of Bonded Work in Progress over one million Single Largest Bonded Job. The business's grind and constant struggle took its toll. George's goal was now retirement. Norman was now looking towards his family ; having the largest and most successful plumbing company in Central Florida was not now a priority. By the early 1980's Certified Plumbing Co., Inc, was no more.