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Waco,Texas (PRWEB) July 18, 2014

Mr. Appliance announced the opening of eight new franchise locations in the U.S. during the second quarter of 2014. Two of these new franchises are veteran owned. Year to date, Mr. Appliance has welcomed the addition of 14 new franchises.

Mr. Appliance offers full-service residential and commercial appliance repair and is North America's leading appliance repair franchise renowned for integrity and dependability. Its franchises provide full service residential and light commercial appliance repair. Mr. Appliance is a subsidiary of The Dwyer Group.

We are very excited to welcome these new franchisees to the Mr. Appliance family, Mary Kay Liston, vice-president of Mr. Appliance, said. At The Dwyer Group, we work tirelessly on all fronts to ensure support for our franchisees on their journey to success as a business owner, and its always exciting to assist new franchisees as they start their journey to success.

Mr. Appliance welcomes the following new franchisees: Clyde Goldman Sr. Aurora, Colorado David Gottschalk, Fairfield, Ohio Christopher Worden, Denton, Maryland Keith Griffith, Lees Summit, Missouri, USA Veteran* Larry and Kathleen Post, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USMC Veteran* Joseph Szczepanski, Laurel, Delaware *Indicates participant in The Dwyer Groups VetFran Program

About Mr. Appliance: Mr. Appliance was established in 1996 and offers full-service residential and commercial appliance repair and is a subsidiary of The Dwyer Group. Mr. Appliance has franchises in the United States and Canada. Mr. Appliance ranked among the Top 50 Best Franchises for Veterans in USA Today. The Franchise Business Review listed Mr. Appliance as one of the Top Low Cost Franchises. Mr. Appliance consecutively ranks in Entrepreneur Magazine as part of the Franchise 500 list as well as in Franchise Times on the Next 300 Franchise Chains listed by worldwide sales.

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Every tenant will be moved out of the 28-unit D'Ambrosio Drive apartment complex in Barrie's south end during repairs following a fire last weekend.

Initial plans to move a dozen first-floor tenants back into the building that caught fire Saturday night have been changed to evacuating everyone from their homes until the building is restored.

No one's moving back in because it will be a construction site, Sean Fleming, superintendent with the Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corp., said Thursday afternoon. We're relocating every tenant until the repairs are finished.

The fire started in a unit on the second floor of the three-storey apartment building, around 9:30 p.m., Saturday.

Approximately 50 people were displaced after the blaze tore through the building, causing $500,000 in damage to the building due to smoke and water.

Only about half of the tenants have contents insurance, the Examiner has learned.

Those renters will have their furniture and personal items moved outside, washed and held in storage units on-site until they're relocated to another building, or move back in to 101 D'Ambrosio Dr.

Families without insurance were having their personal items carried out and were washing their belongings before they, too, would be put in bins and moved with them to another location.

Young families who don't have insurance believe they may have to discard many of their belongings, Alley Harrington said.

They don't want us to move things that will contaminate the new place, anything plastic or press board, the smell goes right into those things and stays, Harrington said

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Two Houston firefighters whose last-second rescue of a construction worker from a burning apartment building made for breathtaking video have been jointly honored as Firefighter of the Year.

Capt. Brad Hawthorne and Engine Operator Dewayne Wyble, both from Station 18 at Lockwood and Telephone Road, received the award July 16 from the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston. They were honored during the organization's 36th annual Firefighter of the Year luncheon at a Galleria restaurant.

Nearly 200 firefighters and 80 pieces of equipment responded to the five-alarm blaze March 25 at an apartment building under construction on West Dallas at Montrose. But it was Hawthorne and Wyble and the construction worker they saved who captured national attention, thanks to viral video.

As the fire raged, the worker jumped from the fourth-floor balcony to a balcony one floor below. When Hawthorne moved near him on an aerial ladder, the worker made a desperate leap to safety.

Right then, a large section of the top floor collapsed behind them, and the burning wall fell to the ground.

The worker was rescued "pretty much seconds before the fire would have overtaken him," Capt. Ruy Lozano said.

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SEAL BEACH, Calif. (PRWEB) July 18, 2014

To provide the quickest, easiest and cleanest way for any do-it-yourselfer to install tile, Custom Building Products (http://www.custombuildingproducts.com/), the leading provider of tile and stone installation systems, delivers with its revolutionary SimpleMat Tile Setting Mat.

Readily available to homeowners at The Home Depot, SimpleMat transforms what was once thought to be a painstaking, expensive task into an easy and fast way to greatly improve your kitchen, bathroom or almost any spot in need of a tile upgrade. SimpleMat replaces traditional thin-set mortar or mastic adhesive that can be time consuming, messy or costly to hire a professional contractor.

SimpleMat features a double-sided adhesive mat that is specifically designed to bond tile to counters, backsplashes or shower walls. The absence of thin-set mortar means no mixing or clean-up is involved. The product offers significant bonding strength that doesnt kick off until the release liner is removed. This affords the flexibility to tile then grout in sections, especially when matched with color-consistent and ready-to-use Fusion Pro Single Component grout. To demonstrate SimpleMats strength, mosaic glass tile set with SimpleMat and grouted with Fusion Pro on a vertical surface was subjected to a full 50 pounds of weight, suspended for 5 minutes. A video of the test can be viewed at http://bit.ly/1t9Rzj0.

Whether youre a pro looking for a simple solution on a small job, a house flipper on a fast track schedule or a first-time do-it-yourselfer looking to make valuable home addition such as a backsplash in the kitchen, SimpleMat provides the quickest, easiest and cleanest way to install tile for common home tiling projects, said Tony Pasquarelli, marketing services manager for Custom Building Products.

SimpleMats design allows you to tile at your own pace. Its as easy as applying the double-sided adhesive to the surface, then pressing the tile into SimpleMats ridged surface to create the immediate bond, and then applying the grout. Simply grout with 24 hours.

SimpleMat is offered in sheets to tile up to 10 square feet or in a value-size roll covering 30 square feet for larger projects.

About Custom Building Products Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2014, Custom Building Products is North Americas leader in flooring preparation products and tile and stone installation systems for residential and commercial projects. The companys product brands, including WonderBoard Lite backerboards, RedGard waterproofing membrane, SimpleMat tile setting mat, Fusion Pro, Prism, CEG and Polyblend grouts, a comprehensive line of lightweight mortars, TileLab and Aqua Mix maintenance products, and SuperiorBilt tools, are considered among the most popular and most trusted by industry professionals. Installation systems are backed by CUSTOMs industry leading lifetime system warranty. Custom Building Products continually raises standards for the flooring, tile and stone industry through its commitment to provide performance-driven installation systems and support.

For more information on CUSTOMs quality tile, stone and flooring installation products and comprehensive resources including product and warranty information, installation specifications and technical support, please visit http://www.custombuildingproducts.com or call (800) 272-8786.

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As hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time not so long ago when few Americans had ever heard the expression "man cave."

In 1994, PBS' trusty "This Old House" was the best known of a handful of home-improvement programs on the airwaves. The idea of HGTV, a 24-hour lifestyle network devoted to gardening, decorating, crafting and do-it-yourself renovations that launched that year, seemed ridiculously narrow, prompting the New York Times to wonder, "Is America ready for all-home TV?"

Now as HGTV closes in on its 20th anniversary, the question seems almost quaint: Once derided as "compost TV," it has become a top-10 cable network in prime time available in 96 million homes and part of a multimedia lifestyle brand that includes a magazine and website. Its ratings grew in tandem with the real estate market boom of the early aughts, arguably helping fuel the nation's lust for granite countertops and open-concept kitchens, and were only briefly dampened by the subprime mortgage crisis and Great Recession.

And while other networks have seen breakout real estate hits such as "Trading Spaces" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" quickly wear out their welcome with viewers, HGTV has built a lineup full of quiet, consistent performers most notably, the 15-year-old "House Hunters" franchise. The network's pleasantly formulaic programming, which includes "Property Brothers," "Flip or Flop" and "Fixer Upper," offers ever-so-slight variations on the same theme: people buying, renovating and selling property.

This reliability has made HGTV a favorite go-to destination for affluent, educated viewers, particularly women, unable to resist taking a voyeuristic glimpse into other people's domestic lives and engage in a bit of risk-free real estate speculation. Case in point: When Hillary Rodham Clinton was preparing to step down as secretary of State in 2012, she said she hoped to spend more time watching "Love It or List It." ("I find it very calming," she told the New York Times.)

In the process, the Knoxville, Tenn.-based network has also become a pop cultural touchstone, with its flagship series "House Hunters" inspiring drinking games, a "Jeopardy" question and jokes on "30 Rock" and "Saturday Night Live."

As Kathleen Finch, president of Scripps Networks Interactive Home Category, which includes HGTV and its sister channel DIY, puts it, "I think we're the guilty pleasure of a lot of intelligent people."

The network relies heavily on shows featuring duos of "real people" as opposed to trained TV hosts who are knowledgeable in real estate and also happen to look good on camera. The so-called Property Brothers, identical Canadian twins Drew and Jonathan Scott, have three shows with a fourth on the way and have become the de facto faces of HGTV as well as heartthrobs. (They made People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" list last year.) There's also Tarek and Christina El Moussa, the telegenic SoCal married couple featured in "Flip or Flop," and Chip and Joanna Gaines, the equally eye-pleasing husband-and-wife team on "Fixer Upper."

For many fans, the relationships are at least as intriguing as the real estate. As humorist and "Daily Show" contributor John Hodgman recently tweeted, "Every 'House Hunters International' could be subtitled 'What Are They Running From' or 'When Will They Divorce?'"

At some level, HGTV's appeal may have as much to do with its own pleasantly escapist offerings as with what's available elsewhere on the dial. Compared with the perpetually gloomy and increasingly partisan 24/7 news cycle and the dark, complicated storytelling associated with the current "Golden Age of TV," HGTV acts as a bit of much-needed counterprogramming, said Shawn Shimpach, an associate professor of film studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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