:: About EMERY Plumbing

Christine and John Mingo celebrate their 25th Wedding Anniversary at The Hilton Waikaloa in May 2011. Yay!

John Mingo started his plumbing career in San Francisco in the early eighties--including working on U.S. Navy ships in Japan. He met me, Christine Hemenway (Mingo), in 1985 and before long we were marrying and daring each other into moving to Papua New Guinea--where we worked for 4 years from 1988 - 1992. In Papua New Guinea, John managed a large plumbing company of sixty plumbers and laborers to build the South Pacific Games Village and an eleven story building in Port Moresby, NCD.

Plumber's Assistant, Daylin and John Mingo, owner of EMERY Plumbing commute to work on the Kona side of the Island.

Coming home to the Bay Area in California, John became a licensed Plumbing Contractor dba EMERY Plumbing in Emeryville, California in 1993 when Kamara was one year old. We had EMERY Plumbing open for nine years in Emeryville specializing as a radiant heat installer and a major Hot Water Heater installer of a dozen Home Depot stores in the Bay Area. We also did a lot of remodel plumbing for homes that had been caught in the Berkeley fire of early nineties. We plumbed the Emeryville Fire Station, installed radiant heat at the Swan's Market co-housing installation in Oakland, California, and did the remodel plumbing for the owner of the Gap Stores mansion near Stanford University.

It's a family affair--Kamara Mingo applies herself as a Plumber's Assistant for EMERY Plumbing on our Kukio Kona job.

Since building our dream home in Papaikou, on the Hamakua Coast on the Big Island and moving EMERY Plumbing here--we have become a major installer of plumbing for custom homes, septic and cesspool installations, fine finish plumbing, solar hot water heating systems, pumps and commercial plumbing projects. We are here to make your plumbing project go well for you. Give us call. We look forward to giving you a free quotation and talking story.

John Mingo chats with Brother-in-Law, Steven Velm of Brisbane, Australia, and friend Charisse Vigneau, of Hilo, Hawaii.

Kamara Mingo, Josh Mingo, of Film L.A. and John meet for lunch in L.A. in 2007. I'm behind the camera. John's son, Josh, arranges the clearances for film shoots on location in the Los Angeles area.

Mingo's Senior Softball triumph for Hui O Na Kalohe at Carvalo Park in Hilo, Hawaii.

John inspired by the amazing architecture of the Disney Opera House in Los Angeles.

Kamara Mingo is attending UH-Hilo as an Art Major and working at the new Target in Hilo. She's been part of our team--working on several Emery Plumbing jobsites and is finding her own star now.

John and I met dancing in San Francisco in 1995 at dance marathon. We have built our dream home in Papaikou, Hawaii with a dance floor in 2002 and we feel very lucky to share a love of latin dancing and hosting parties at home still today. If you too, are building your dream home and want to build a life you love here--we would be honored to tell you some of the secrets that we've learned on how to survive and thrive on the Big Island of Hawaii!