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MORGANTOWN, W.Va., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProBuild Holdings Inc., one of the nation's largest professional building materials suppliers, today announced the grand opening of its Morgantown, W. Va. location. The grand opening celebration will take place from 11 a.m. 3 p.m. on March 14 at the ProBuild facility at 201 North Metro Drive, Morgantown, W. Va.

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Builders, contractors and do-it-yourself enthusiasts are invited to come and check out the new facility and enjoy lunch. Vendors will also be on hand with product displays and giveaways.

"We're proud to bring our local market expertise and ProBuild's national reach to Morgantown and our neighboring states," said Brian Massie, general manager of the ProBuild Morgantown location. "Whether you're a big production builder, a contractor or you're taking on a home improvement project for yourself, we've got the supplies you need and a local team of experts to help you get the job done."

The 35,000 sq. ft. Morgantown facility provides a full range of building materials and products to meet growing demand in the market. ProBuild Morgantown offers lumber, building materials, windows, exterior doors, siding and trim, and a variety of hardware items. Customers of the new location will have access to materials from nearby ProBuild facilities, including Winchester, Va. which specializes in components and Frederick, Md. which specializes in millwork.

The Morgantown location is one of the most recent additions to ProBuild's national footprint. The company employs approximately a dozen new employees at the facility. ProBuild now has two locations in West Virginia and nine locations in the surrounding states. The company's national reach helps ensure customers have access to the building materials and products they need when they need them, along with a locally staffed and managed team to provide on-the-ground support and expertise to help get the job done.

Click here for ProBuild's Morgantown store hours and directions. To learn more about ProBuild, please visit http://www.ProBuild.com.

About ProBuildProBuild is one of the nation's largest diversified suppliers of lumber and building materials to professional builders and contractors. ProBuild currently operates more than 430 lumber and building product distribution, manufacturing and assembly centers serving 45 U.S. states. ProBuild sells a broad selection of building materials including lumber and plywood, engineered wood, gypsum wallboard and other drywall products, millwork, trusses, roofing, siding products, tools, insulation materials, and metal and hardware specialties. The company's manufacturing activities include trusses, wall panels, millwork, and pre-hung door and window fabrication. ProBuild's construction services include the installation of framing, millwork, insulation and other products. To learn more about ProBuild, visit their website at http://www.probuild.com.

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Single Mother and Corporate Giant Face-off in Courtroom Over Black Mold Ordeal

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) March 13, 2012

According to Ms. Williamss petition pending in the 165th Judicial District of Harris County, Texas, her ordeal began in 1993 with Sears unsuccessful attempt to correct the faulty installation. She alleges that in 2005 the company removed the vinyl siding and covered the exterior walls with plastic sheeting, leaving the home uninhabitable, the family displaced and allowing snakes, rats, squirrels and lizards to take up residence in an unsecured home. In deposition testimony by a former Sears insurance adjuster, the Williams home was declared a total loss in 2007. Today, over five years later, Sears and its subcontractors have not compensated Williams for the loss of her home, contents and the cost of living outside of her home. Court filings indicate all is not well between Sears and its subcontractors either as its mold remediation subcontractor has also sued Sears (Cause No. 2009-12785, 165th Judicial District of Harris County, Texas).

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LMC Roofing & Inspections of Miami, Florida has been honored with a recognition by South Florida Business Journal in its selection of "Top Roofing Contractors."

MIAMI, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announcing a special recognition appearing in the March, 2012 issue of South Florida Business Journal published by American City Business Journals. LMC Roofing & Inspections was selected for the following honor:

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"Top Roofing Contractors"

A spokesperson from LMC Roofing & Inspections commented on the recognition: "This is quite an honor for us. The fact that South Florida Business Journal included LMC Roofing & Inspections in its selection of "Top Roofing Contractors," signals that our constant efforts towards business excellence are paying off. We are proud to be included in this recognition."

About LMC Roofing & Inspections:

Over the years, LMC Roofing, Inc. has built a reputation for dependability. Our expertise and efficient approach has made us a trusted name throughout South Florida. We have completed thousands of projects all with one thing in common; We bring the highest level of professionalism, integrity, and teamwork to each one. We specialize in tile roofs. We also handle shingle, tar and gravel, metal roofs, flat roofs, single ply roofs, fiberglass and modified systems. Have one of our professionals give you a FREE, no obligation estimate for your re-roof or new roof.

Following the publication of LMC Roofing & Inspections's selection for South Florida Business Journal's Top Roofing Contractors list, American Registry seconded the honor and added LMC Roofing & Inspections to the "Registry of Business Excellence(TM)". An exclusive recognition plaque, shown here, has been designed to commemorate this honor.

For more information on LMC Roofing & Inspections, located in Miami, Florida please call 305-254-2424, or visit http://www.lmcroofing.com.

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Bids are due Tuesday for the renovation of the fourth and final Syracuse school that is part of a long-delayed, $138 million City Hall-school district project.

Work is scheduled to begin in April at H.W. Smith School, said Thomas Ferrara, district director of facilities and operations. The projected $28 million project, which includes extensive interior work and a five-classroom addition, is scheduled to be done by October 2013, possibly September 2013.

Reconstruction is well underway at the other three schools: Fowler High, Dr. Weeks Elementary and the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central. Additions are rising at Fowler and the institute. All the schools are undergoing major interior work.

Those projects so far are on time and on budget, Ferrara said.

By the end of next year, I think well have four schools completely renovated, said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who chairs the joint city-district board in charge of the project.

The schools completion will mark the districts first major school renovations since McKinley-Brighton and Dr. King elementary schools were remade and reopened in 2001 and 2002.

The path to the current renovations winds back to August 2003, when city hall and the school district announced the project.

The original plan was for the joint board to oversee the renovation of every school in district in phases over 10 years. The first phase would cover seven schools. Officials originally expected construction to begin as soon as 2005.

For a range of reasons, the project dragged on and dwindled in scope from seven to four schools. The first major work began in June 2011 at Fowler.

The district and city, at that time lead by Mayor Matt Driscoll and Superintendent Stephen C. Jones, created the joint board as a mechanism to borrow money without increasing the citys debt load and to fast-track badly needed renovations. Traditionally, the city itself borrows the money for school renovations. Either way, the state covers most of the project costs.

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Just weeks before the second Global Nuclear Security Summit convenes in South Korea, the United States still has not enacted a law critical to ratifying what the Obama administration at the first summit called the two key international treaties governing nuclear security (see GSN, Oct. 6, 2011).

The Senate endorsed both pacts four years ago without opposition. However, Congress has yet to sign off on legislation that would force the United States to come into line with the mandates.

The administration is still wrangling with Congress over legal specifics for implementing the international agreements, according to representatives of the State Department and involved congressional committees.

Officials from the Justice and State departments are meeting routinely with Capitol Hill staffers in an effort to resolve disputes, but neither side has promised formal action on the proposals prior to the March 26-27 event in Seoul or before the current congressional term ends next January.

Some issue specialists called for senior-level White House involvement in finalizing U.S. adoption of the agreements, a step they said is crucial to improving atomic-material protections around the world and to bolstering global collaboration in apprehending and punishing potential nuclear-terrorism suspects.

The White House needs to call Democrats who are on the Hill and tell them to make it happen, said Miles Pomper, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington.

One of the two arrangements requires member nations to criminalize the possession or use of sensitive materials in a nuclear or radiological weapon with the intent of causing death and destruction. It also establishes guidelines for cooperating in the extradition and prosecution of individuals linked to a nuclear plot or threat. The 2005 pact -- called the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism -- took effect in 2007 and now has 77 member states; the United States, however, remains outside the regime.

The second agreement, also completed in 2005, would revise the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material to demand a number of requirements aimed at protecting nonmilitary nuclear material in domestic use, storage, or transport. The accord presently only requires such measures for material in transit between countries. To take effect, the amendment must be ratified by 97 of the original 145 signatories to the 1980 pact; 53 had done so as of late February, according to a U.N. document.

At the 2010 nuclear summit in Washington, the Obama administration said the United States had accelerated efforts to complete ratification procedures for the convention and amendment. One month earlier, it had provided Congress with a draft bill to implement the agreements, describing the legislation as nearly identical to a proposal put forward by the Bush administration in July 2008.

No lawmaker has sponsored a bill in Congress for complying with the treaties, however. Last year, the Justice Department provided the new 112th Congress with a slightly revised proposal for meeting the terms of the pacts. Also included in the submission was the departments fourth draft bill since 2007 for implementing two separate agreements on legal procedures for terrorism cases involving ships or fixed platforms, as well as overseas transfers of terrorist fugitives or of WMD materials or delivery systems.

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CHICAGO, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Many people have chosen to use Prime Time Window Cleaning to protect and beautify their largest investment over the past 15 years, over 50,000 in fact. But President William Dron believes that there is more to celebrate than the quality service and 100% satisfaction he has delivered to over 50,000 customers. He feels it is crucial to celebrate the money he has saved his clients with his quality professional window and gutter cleaning service.

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Savings extend far beyond Prime Time Windows' reasonable pricing and incredible discounts; people who choose to have their windows professionally cleaned save thousands in window replacement costs.

Oxidization, hard minerals, acid rain, and grime can build up on your windows causing more than a filthy looking home exterior. The worst possible culprit is the 38" of hard-water laden rain that trickles over our Chicagoland windows from the torrents of rain and driving snow.

Windows are porous so neglecting to have your windows professionally cleaned twice per year will cause imminent glass degradation resulting in nearly invisible peaks and valleys. Further damage develops over time as glass is a liquid which continues to harden into a solid, trapping grime and dirt as it ages, resulting in windows that shatter with ease. Preventing early window replacement can save you thousands, even in a smaller home.

You can even save money on your heating and air conditioning costs by having your windows professionally cleaned.

What most people don't realize is that different types of window glass and window seals require different cleaners and methods. Using the wrong cleaner or tools can result in significant damage to your window seal resulting in intemperate air sneaking in and skyrocketing your heating and air conditioning cost.

Not to mention that broken seals allow airborne toxins and bugs to permeate through the cracks into your homes' interior. Mold and mildew are often the result of water leaking through damaged seals. Water and dust can even creep between your window panes making them impossible to clean.

Professional window cleaners like the experts at Prime Time Window Cleaning know how to clean your windows to sparkling perfection while maintaining the steadfast window seal saving you hundreds or even thousands every year on your energy bills.

By now you can see how having your windows professionally cleaned by a company with over 15 years of expertise and 50,000 happy clients can really save you money. People in Chicago love Prime Time Window Cleaning because of the quality service they provide allowing you to protect and beautify your largest investment. Everyone knows that their fully insured technicians keep your property clean while they work to avoid upsetting your neighborhood association.

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Homeowners who invest in a geothermal heating and cooling system receive savings not only at the time of installation but well into the future. The system reduces energy consumption, lowers utility bills and increases home resale values.

How it works

A geothermal home comfort system taps into the abundant source of free solar heat energy stored in the earth and uses a series of pipes (called an earth loop) buried in the ground to move that heat into the home during cold weather and remove it during warm weather. This same heat energy can be used for a radiant floor system or domestic hot water heating.

Lower taxes

Homeowners who install a geothermal system before Dec. 31, 2016, can take advantage of a federal renewable energy tax credit that offers a tax incentive of 30 percent of the installed cost of the system. In addition, the credit is retroactive to Jan. 1, 2009, and can be used in combination with utility rebates and other tax incentives, where available, to make geothermal systems more affordable than ever.

Improved economy

Once installed, the system significantly reduces energy consumption, saving homeowners as much as 70 percent on their heating and cooling bills throughout the year. Because geothermal systems use the free renewable supply of energy found in the backyard, the use of geothermal reduces U.S. dependency on foreign oil while encouraging energy production in the United States and helping to create jobs in renewable industries.

Less pollution

Meanwhile, homeowners can reduce their carbon footprints. Thats because geothermal systems do not emit carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or other greenhouse gases that are considered major contributors to environmental air pollution.

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When remodeling, create a financial plan upfront and contractors can tailor proposals to fit what you can afford.

(MONEY Magazine) -- Budgeting for a large remodeling project presents a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: You won't have a feel for the cost until you get bids from contractors.

But unless you give pros a ballpark figure from the start, they'll have to guess at what to include in their bids -- and they'll come back to you with a huge range of prices for very different plans.

"A faucet can cost $200 to $900, a window can be $400 to $1,200," says Madison contractor Mike Gasch. "I need to know where to aim."

To solve this conundrum, do some calculations first.

1. Start with average costs |

When insurance companies need to pinpoint construction costs, they multiply the length by the width of the space and then multiply that by the project's typical cost per square foot.

Albert Paxton, an estimator who provides such data to claims adjusters and contractors, pegs average per-square-foot costs of remodeling jobs at this:

2. Tweak to fit the scope

These numbers are for gut remodels, meaning the room is demolished right down to the framing and rebuilt.

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Herrera Construction, Inc., Completely Remodels 1950s-era Home for New Owners

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 13, 2012

Herrera began by removing everything in the home doors, casings, baseboards, carpeting, kitchen cabinets. As the home was in its original state, he first needed to upgrade the electrical system to bring it up to current code.

Some restructuring was involved, especially in the kitchen. Herrera reconfigured the space to give a more open feeling to the area and added a window to the adjacent dining area to provide much-needed natural light to the space. Herrera replaced the existing cabinetry with custom-built units, installed granite countertops and also installed new appliances.

The existing fireplace was refaced with slate; a mantle was added for accent and then finished off with a new gas fireplace insert.

Herrera then set to work on the homes two bathrooms. Both bathrooms were also original and needed to be completely gutted and updated. He added a new tub, a complete shower enclosure, vanities, granite countertops and tile surrounds, with new fixtures to complete the makeover.

The homes floors were also given much attention. In the living spaces, they replaced old worn vinyl and hardwood floors with beautiful new hard wood flooring and refinished the existing oak floors.

Finally, the interior project was completed by installing raised panel doors, casing and baseboards, along with crown molding throughout the house. Of course, both the interior and exterior of the home were completely repainted. At this point the only work left to do was building a new deck in the backyard for all to enjoy.

In the end, a residence built in the fifties received a major facelift, and both the clients and contractor felt the extra effort and time spent on the project were well worth it.

To find out more about this exceptional company, please visit their website http://www.herrera-construction.com.

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Kansas City's leading remodeling contractor will now use Chief Architect Software for kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, basement finishing and whole house interior and exterior remodeling projects.

Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

Chief Architect Software is a full featured architectural design and drafting program. Among its primary features is the automatic creation of a 3D model as the design is drafted. This will not only allow Paragon to produce the plans for construction, but also detailed renderings of what the finished results will look like.

The primary benefit of having this software in-house is the ability to show our clients exactly what their remodeling project will look like once it is finished, said Paragon head, Steven Glaze, Having detailed construction plans and a 3-D rendering of the finished project, is the single most important element in eliminating problems, conflicts and miscommunication on a remodeling project. If we are doing an Overland Park remodeling job, or a Kansas City house addition, having this resource in house will be a great benefit to our company, and most importantly, to our clients. The company hopes that by producing full mock ups of the planned remodeling designs, they will be able to eliminate confusion and more accurately deliver what their clients are looking for.

Paragon Design and Remodel is a licensed and insured contracting firm and has been serving the greater Kansas City area since 1996. This contractor specializes in Kansas City roofing, custom interior and exterior remodels as well as roofing and decking throughout the KC metro area.

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