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Weal &tate I Advance Plumbing
Making
A locally owned
family business
celebrates 92
years of serving its
community.
Lynne Konstantin { Contributing Writer
dvance Plumbing and Heating
While Ronald
toilets, sinks, faucets, garbage
Supply Company is well known
Moss took care
disposals, sump pumps and
— by plumbers, builders,
of business at the
much more. We sell everything
interior decorators, kitchen and bath
Detroit location,
you need to get water into your
professionals and other industry leaders
where the focus
Four generations of the Moss
house and waste out of the
family has helped to build
— for carrying an exceptional range of
remains on older,
house, to keep your home and
Advance Plumbing.
the best products that the plumbing and
harder-to-find
your pipes clean, healthy, happy
heating industry has to offer.
parts, including
— and decorative."
But there's something else that makes
pipes, valve, fittings, boilers, water
And as one would imagine, a company
them even more proud.
heaters, faucets, toilets and much more,
that has been familiar to the Detroit
This year, the locally owned business
for renovating homes and commercial
area for so many years has a few
is celebrating its 92nd anniversary —
building in Detroit, third-generation
regulars. Designers, kitchen and bath
and has in the past year expanded to
family-business member and vice
professionals, contractors, plumbers and
include its fourth-generation full-time
president of the company, Jeffrey Moss,
the best of local industry professionals
family member — perpetuating its
operates at the company's Walled Lake
are regulars in both the Detroit location
proud commitment of offering the best
location that features a 5,000-square-
and the Walled Lake showroom, and
customer service possible and giving
foot high-end decorative plumbing
Advance Plumbing's own team of
back to the communities that have
showroom.
longtime employees benefit from
supported them for so many years.
Opened in 1990, just weeks after
working for a company steeped in such a
Founded by the late Harry Chernick, a
his oldest son, Joshua, was born, the
rich history.
licensed master plumber and longtime
state-of-the-art showroom features
"They are incredibly well-informed
member of Congregation B'nai Moshe
all the latest and greatest products
and knowledgeable, which makes it
(first in Detroit and then when the
that the decorative plumbing industry
so much easier for them to put the
synagogue moved to Oak Park), in 1920,
has to offer. Joshua, a recent graduate
customer first," says Joshua. "The Walled
Advance Plumbing thrived in its original
of Michigan State University with a
Lake showroom offers the best of the
location on Detroit's Grand River (across
bachelor's degree in political science,
best, but we also carry an enormous
from the current Motor City Casino),
has become a full-time employee at the
price range, so that we can work within
where it still maintains a location today,
company, and in the last year has helped
any budget to please any customer. That
92 years later.
his father operate the showroom, adding
is our goal."
"My great-grandfather stayed in
his own finishing touches, including
To further that goal, the team
Detroit from the very beginning," says
sleek and easy-to-navigate displays of
convenes for weekly product knowledge
Joshua Moss, operation manager at the
working whirlpool tubs, shower heads
meetings, and regularly invites vendors
company. "He stayed during the Great
and steamer generators, faucets, sinks,
to speak about their products to the
Depression, and we stayed during the
toilets and much more.
staff.
most recent depression. It's important
"The showroom features the latest
With the other members of the West
to us to remain a part of the original
and greatest the plumbing industry
Bloomfield-based family, including
community that supported
has to offer," says
Jeffrey and wife, Wendy, (who helps out
us for so long."
Jeffrey Moss. "We
in the office) and sons Joshua, Justin
Advance Plumbing Supply
As former president of
handle hundreds
and Andrew, all currently affiliated with
2984 Grand River Avenue
the company, Chernick's
of different
West Bloomfield's Temple Israel, the
Detroit, MI 48201
late son-in-law, Ronald
manufacturers."
family is devoted to giving back to the
(313) 831-7770
Moss, who was a member
Adds his son,
communities that have given so much to
of Bloomfield Hills' Temple
Joshua, "We offer
them, including the Jewish community
1977 E. West Maple Road
Beth El with wife, Sandy,
everything that
and the Detroit community they are
Walled
Lake, MI 48390
"was very involved in the
runs your house
rooted in.
(248) 669-7474
day-to-day operations of
from the pipes,
"We are so grateful for the history
the Detroit location," says
advanceplumbing.com
valves and fittings,
we have," says Joshua Moss, "and it's
his grandson, Joshua.
to water heaters,
important to us to show it."
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