CertaPro Painters is the largest painting company in North America, with over 280 franchise owners in the U.S. and Canada. The company’s story, as told on their website, states that “Since 1992, CertaPro Painters has honored homes and the people who live in them, by creating a customer experience that is unmatched. Our interior, exterior, and specialty painting services complement the lives and lifestyles of our customer. As a result, CertaPro has a 98% customer referral rating making us North America’s most referred painting company.”
One of the ways CertaPro Painters has achieved its success is with this process, which they call “The CertaPro Difference:”
- We answer the phone.
- Your project is managed by a professional.
- We call back after the paint has dried.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? And yet knowing a contractor will honor those simple, basic steps is a primary factor in influencing a homeowner’s hiring decision.
A number of CertaPro Painters are featured on CalFinder’s team of Remodeling Contractors. Here are some CalFinder CertaPros and comments about their services:
CertaPro Peninsula/Southbay (San Francisco Bay Area)
- “Very quick. Job site was very clean.”
- “Good eye for detail; have used for other jobs.”
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After energetic debate and a charged round of live judging we’re excited to announce the winners of the 2009 Greener Gadgets Design Competition! Hosted by the always engaging Allan Chochinov and featuring Panelists Jill Fehrenbacher, Saul Griffith, and Jeff Kapec, this year’s competition showcased a virtuosic array of innovative technologies that ranged from the practical to the futuristic to the patently bizarre. Many of this year’s winning designs spoke to one of the central themes of the conference - visualizing energy use. Congratulations to our grand prize winner the Tweet-a-watt, the Powerhog for second place, the Indoor Drying Rack for third place, and the Laundry Pod for fourth, and read on for more highlights from the judging!
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After an exciting round of live judging last week at the Greener Gadgets Conference, we’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2009 Greener Gadgets Design Competition! Drumroll please……
Congratulations to Powerhog for second place, the Indoor Drying Rack for third place, and the Laundry Pod for fourth, and read on for more highlights from the judging at the Greener Gadgets Conference.
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At the Greener Gadgets Conference last Friday, a lot of great minds came together to discuss how technology can advance and we can lessen our impact on the planet at the same time. One concept kept coming up throughout the day and, as obvious as it seems, it struck a chord with me.
This major theme was that we needed to focus on creating an heirloom culture. Saul Griffith concluded his keynote with this point and the other panels throughout the day seemed to keep circling around this idea.
The concept is that any products that we manufacture from here on out should be made to last, to the point where we could hand them down to our children, and we as consumers should take care of our things and consume less. The combination would mean cutting down on waste and the need for raw materials and energy to make new things. Ideally, our current culture of constantly creating and buying new things to replace another, would instead become a culture of maintenance and repair.
A good example of this would be that instead of electronics companies releasing new models of their products every six months to a year, hardware and all, they would instead only release software to update the electronics. This way, people could take advantage of gains in technology without having to throw out the existing product. Completely new models would be released much less frequently and only when the hardware itself truly demanded it. At that point recycling would be widely available and free.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Its not just the bike-riding, train-hopping, anti-suburb eco-lefties who are questioning $27 billion for roads and highways in the stimulus plan; some thoughtful conservative writers have concerns as well, and not for the usual reasons about spending money instead of reducing taxes. Christopher Caldwell, an editor at the Weekly Standard, writes in the Financial Times about another huge stimulus project set in motion by the Highway Act of 1956, noting that it caused
“spoliation of the environment, dependence on foreign oil, overburdening of state…
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