The job
Plumbers work in Providence
Providence is an old city with old pipes. Much of the housing stock in the city dates from before the Second World War, and a lot of it is triple deckers and converted mill buildings where the plumbing was fitted long before anyone thought about water pressure or lead service lines. That shapes what people search for here. Searches come in for burst pipes in winter, for water heaters that fail, for drain clearing in the older neighbourhoods, and for lead line replacement as owners learn what their service line is made of. The trade in Providence runs on a mix of small owner operators and a handful of larger firms, and the searches are spread across the city's neighbourhoods rather than landing in one place. The demand is steady and it is local, which means the searches are won by whoever has a page that names the neighbourhood and the problem.
