Altoona, WI
(715) 834-5409

Certified Inc · Altoona, Wisconsin

Plumbing, heating and sheet metal for the Chippewa Valley since 1976.

One shop on Sunday Drive runs all five lines: heat, cooling, plumbing, septic and well, water conditioning. We fabricate our own metal, we price our own work, and we answer the phone at two in the morning.

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One job, three rooms

Where the part is made, and where it ends up

Five service lines sounds like five companies. It is one building, and the job walks through it in order.

Fabricated galvanized duct sections stacked on the floor of a sheet metal shop beside a box-and-pan brake and coils of sheet stock

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It starts on the brake floor

Six thousand square feet of sheet metal shop sits behind the service trucks. Brent Thompson's team fabricates and welds there every day, light gauge through thick steel plate, in aluminum, copper, galvanized, colored and stainless. Most shops this size buy a fitting off a shelf and cut the job to suit it. We make the fitting the job actually needs.

A row of six residential air conditioning condensers installed on a concrete pad along the side of a building

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It goes in where you live

A run of condensers on a pad, a furnace in a basement, a softener in a utility corner, a well pump two hundred feet down. Same crew, same shop, one number to call. Jason Pecka has been sizing forced air, hydronic and geothermal since 1992; Jason Barnes has been a licensed plumber and pump installer since 1990.

A residential condenser beside a house on a still, foggy Wisconsin morning in late autumn

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And we are still here in February

Forty-nine winters in this valley. The reason people keep our number is not the install, it is the callback at eleven at night when the heat is off and the pipes are thinking about it. Emergency service has run twenty-four hours here since 1976.

What the sign has said since 1976

Your one-stop plumbing, heating and cooling shop.

Five trades under one roof is not a slogan here, it is the reason a well leak, a relocated water heater, a neutralizer and a pressure tank are one visit and one invoice instead of four contractors blaming each other.

1976

Locally owned, still on Sunday Drive

  • Free estimates on every line
  • One-year workmanship warranty
  • 24-hour emergency service
  • Bonded and insured

The five lines

Everything that moves water or air through a building

Residential, commercial and industrial. Free estimates on all of it, a one-year workmanship warranty behind all of it, and emergency service twenty-four hours.

All five lines
The open service bays of a metal-clad contractor's shop on a grey Wisconsin morning, concrete apron swept, before the crew arrives

Who is behind the door

Eight names, and the year each of them started

A service group with more than a hundred years of combined mechanical trade experience. The estimator who prices your job is the one who comes out to look at it, and he is on this list.

  • Russ Ryan

    Owner and President

    Has run this shop since 1976. Prices residential well and septic and commercial plumbing and steamfitting himself.

  • Charles Thurner

    Commercial Mechanical Estimator

    Licensed plumber. With Certified since 2002.

  • Greg Backhaus

    Plumbing Estimator

    State-licensed plumber, in residential and commercial work since 1991.

  • Brian Bejin

    Commercial HVAC Estimator

    In HVAC since 2006. Does the 3-D and CAD layout work.

  • Brent Thompson

    Commercial Heating Estimator

    In HVAC since 2012. Leads the sheet metal shop team.

  • Jason Barnes

    Plumbing Service Manager

    In plumbing since 1990. State-licensed plumber and pump installer.

  • Jason Pecka

    Residential and Commercial HVAC Estimator

    In the trade since 1992. Forced air, indoor air quality, hydronic and geothermal.

  • Cody Dziekan

    Heating Service Manager

    In mechanical building systems since 2004.

“Highly recommend. These folks are great to work with. I had two occasions, different bathrooms that needed toilet repairs. Their service people are friendly, professional and efficient. Thank you Jason, Nick, and David.”
Deb Loiselle · Google review

Read what the valley says about the work

Before you call

The eight things people ask the office

If yours is not here, phone the shop. Nobody here works on commission and the estimate does not cost you anything.

24-hour emergency service

Free estimates. One-year workmanship warranty. Bonded and insured.

Call (715) 834-5409

Yes. The office on Sunday Drive runs Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM for estimates and scheduling, but we have run 24-hour emergency service for decades. A frozen sewer line, a plugged main, a furnace down in January: phone (715) 834-5409 and you get a person, not an answering service tree.

Nothing. Estimates are free across every line we run, residential and commercial. Our estimators are named people who have each been in the trade twenty to thirty-five years, and the one who comes out is the one who prices the work.

The work we did. If a joint we soldered weeps, if a duct run we fabricated whistles, if a softener we set up does not soften, we come back inside twelve months and make it right at no charge. Equipment carries its own manufacturer warranty on top of that.

We do. There is a 6,000 square foot sheet metal shop behind the service trucks, running everything from light gauge to thick steel plate in aluminum, copper, galvanized, colored and stainless. Most shops our size buy fittings off a shelf and cut the job to fit them. We fabricate the fitting the job needs, which is why the awkward retrofits end up here.

Altoona, Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls and the wider Chippewa Valley. We are based at 350 Sunday Drive in Altoona and we have been working this valley since 1976.

In this part of Wisconsin, usually yes. Iron, hardness and low pH are all common on private wells here. Water testing is free, and it decides the equipment: a softener, an iron filter, an acid neutralizer, or some combination. We sell and service Addie Water Systems.

Both. Russ Ryan and the crew have run large and small commercial projects since 1976, including hospitals, schools, manufacturing plants and industrial sites, alongside the residential service and new construction work.

Yes, and that is a reason people call one number instead of three. Septic installation, testing and service, sewer snaking and power jetting, camera inspection with a locator, and constant or conventional well pump installation and service all come out of the same shop as the plumbing and the heating.
Late afternoon light across the grass beside a row of installed condensers

350 Sunday Drive, Altoona

Tell us what it is doing and we will tell you what it needs.

  • Free estimate, priced by the estimator who visits
  • Emergency service twenty-four hours, every day
  • One-year warranty on our workmanship
  • Serving Altoona, Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls since 1976
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Office hours are Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM and Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Outside them, the emergency line is the same number.