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Stainless Steel is far stronger than porcelain china, shatterproof, able to handle heavy weight, and is vandal resistant. With advances in design aesthetics, Schools, Hospitals, Parks, and other facilities are switching from porcelain china, to heavy duty stainless steel for their plumbing applications.

Built in to the website itself. Need help finding the right part? Navigating the website? Building a Stockroom List? Tracking your orders? We can help you find what you need, directly on our website through Live Chat

Stockroom lists are typically a list of items that are regularly purchased, or they may be items for a specific project. They can be created by either our team here, or one of your team members.

Two-Thirds of your maintenance costs are labor. We can help reduce that.

Using our robust order tracking tools at www.thepartworks.com, you can check the status of your order by Order History, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Date, Amount, or Status. Simply click on your account in the top right corner, then click on Orders. Under Orders you will see your an option for your Order History, Returns, Items for Reorder, and Quotes.

Welcome to The Part Works, we are here to help you find the right plumbing parts for your facility. Here on our website, you will find tools crafted to streamline that process.

Our team of inside technical specialists are uniquely important in creating those positive experiences, so we want to tell you a little bit more about who these wonderful people are.

It’s not just flow rates: 4 other ways to promote sustainability and cleanliness in commercial restrooms and kitchens

Through your PartPro membership login: • View preferred pricing on items • Track quotes, orders and shipment tracking • Access your custom digital stockroom list.

Many times, we have helped to bridge the competing priorities of the budget-oriented procurement teams, with the building up-time oriented maintenance teams. Saving money is important for budget conscious facilities and we help our customers gain visibility into the full cost of repairs: for every $100 in maintenance materials cost, the average project requires between $235-$1,000 in labor. “By relying on The Part Works expertise, our customers save the cost of excessive wasted time researching hard to find parts, misidentifying parts, ordering (and returning) incorrect products, re-work due to poor quality off-brand replacements, long delivery delays, and other sourcing inefficiencies.”

The story gets interesting around 2012, when a surprise visitor showed up at our will call counter.

You should have more than a bot or digital matrix that determines how to prevent or solve your backflow failure.

The Oregon and Washington K12 education departments have issued guidelines for federal emergency funding related to Covid 19

Kitchens, like restrooms require flushing and checking each system. Ice machines can be a source for growing microbes if left to sit. Dried out floor drain traps can create odors. Janitorial closet faucets and service sinks need to be run and flushed as well.

Some of the biggest risk for transmission of infection is in the restrooms. A regular flow of users, touching the same handles on toilets, faucets, soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers, and entry doors can spread infection. Touch points can be addressed with touch-less solutions, or antimicrobial treated handles and touch-less surfaces.

Every facility manager knows which systems are critical and must be operational at all times. Many facilities have established preventative maintenance schedules to keep critical systems running and plan for upcoming repairs and maintenance. But changing the basic operations of a building changes all of those plans. What happens if the building has been closed for an extended period?

Veterans Day holds a special place for me, it’s a time to thank those who do the often-thankless job of defending our values, our ideals, and our families. It’s a day to celebrate the people who willingly put on the uniform, putting themselves in danger, committing to get their hands dirty in order to protect and serve.

With a new academic year starting, schools are consulting ever-changing guidelines as they prepare for the return of students. What is clear is that handwashing and hygiene will play a critical role in the ability of schools to reopen and stay open. As the preferred choice of schools for more than 100 years, Chicago Faucets is committed to helping building managers equip their schools for the safe return of students.