Chem-Rite Inc.

Most of the work on record is commercial and public. Chem-Rite's prevailing-wage filings since 2022 include jobs for the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, Washington State University, Community Colleges of Spokane, Spokane School District 81, the City of Spokane and the Spokane Airport Board, usually as a subcontractor and with apprentices on the crew. The state insures the business under plumbing and sewer pipe cleaning and construction project supervision, with a crew in the 11 to 20 range. Whitney Bendewald and Kellie Bendewald are listed as principals since 2024, and the company describes itself as family-owned and locally owned. For a homeowner, the advertised services lean toward service and repair: burst and frozen pipes, leak detection, locating pipe under a slab, galvanized pipe repair, repiping, new water service, gas piping, sewer ejector pumps and septic alarms. The company says it also takes on bathroom and kitchen remodels. A sewer line check before buying an older house fits the work mix well. Framing or heavy electrical work is outside it. Repair or replace is the central question with plumbing in Spokane's older neighborhoods, where galvanized supply lines and aging clay or cast-iron sewer laterals are common. A single leak in galvanized pipe often signals corrosion through the whole run, so repiping can make more sense than chasing failures. With sewer lines, a camera inspection shows whether a cracked or root-filled section can be repaired or the line needs replacing. Hard winters matter too: a pipe that froze once in an exterior wall will likely freeze again unless it's rerouted or insulated.