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No assurance is given here about a contractor's workmanship, prices, license or insurance coverage. Before hiring, ask for the contractor's LARA license number and look it up on LARA's online license verification. Find out who pulls the building permit, and whether a licensed plumbing contractor with its own plumbing permit is needed for any sump tie-in, backwater valve, footing-drain or sewer work. Get a written contract signed by both sides before anything starts.

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As far as the law permits, the site and its owner accept no liability for losses that flow from these pages, from relying on them or from hiring any contractor. Please don't submit false requests, interfere with the site's operation or reuse its text for commercial purposes.

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