Contractor Network Night - All Contractors Welcome to Attend!

Contractor Network Night is sponsored by the Home Improvement Council.

You do not have to be a member of the council to attend and network.

This is a great opportunity for contractors to interact with other contractors and to discuss solutions to challenges we all share in the home improvement construction industry.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Tony Rome's - 1537 Union Road, West Seneca
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM - Cash Bar

Get to know HIC Chairman & Co-Chair
Bill Miller - Siegel Landscape & Drainage
Jeff Valone - Try-Lock Roofing

Questions? Contact Donna at 716-568-2111 or donna@hicwny.com

For more information on the Home Improvement Council, click the title of this post to be redirected to their website.

University of Buffalo: A-1 Goes Back to School to Teach Sunken Concrete a Lesson!

This video was recorded while completing a concrete leveling project at Hadley Village Apartments at the University of Buffalo on March 29th, 2010. We raised a string of centrally located walkway slabs in an effort to eliminate surface water pooling. This saved UB budget dollars, saved their maintenance crew clean-up time from mud tracked into the apartment common areas, saved students the inconvenience of having to maneuver through an area being under construction for a lengthy time and resulted in the desired solution of redirecting the surface drainage of the slabs and eliminating pooling water. Our thanks to the UB staff and students for their support!

"Oops!" says The Nicole of Buffalo! Our foreman, Josh, pointed out an error I made in one of the slides included in this video. Because it would be complicated to replace the slide in the video, I am letting the world in on my mistake (wish I could say that I never make mistakes, but I think everyone knows that's not true...)! So, on the second to last slide in this video, which is titled "The Concrete is Raised & Class is Out!", I mistakenly put in our first year of business as 1997 instead of 2007; why I am stuck in the last century and over a decade behind I do not know, but I made this exact mistake on a piece of literature for the home show in March and had to cut out stickers printed with 2007 to cover up my mistake on 1000 postcards... You'd think I would have learned my lesson (maybe I need to go back to school?). So, while it may sound less impressive that we have only been raising concrete slabs since 2007, rather than 1997, it is infinitely more impressive that we have raised over 4200 slabs since 2007 rather than what would be a much lesser accomplishment if we had only raised that many since 1997! My apology for my error! Thanks to Josh for catching it and pointing it out!

List of Corporate Customers

Happy Springtime! The sun is out and we are happy to have our season starting off. Thought it would be nice to include a list of some of our corporate customers many of which for whom we have completed multiple projects over the past several years.

Applebee’s (TL Cannon)
Baker Victory Services
Basset Park Manor
Ciminelli
Delaware Towers Condos
Delphi
Elderwood
First Niagara
FMC Peroxygens
Goodyear-Dunlop
Greif
Honeywell
Kenilworth United Church of Christ
LBM Construction
LMM Properties
MJ Peterson
National Air Cargo
Niagara Hospice
People, Inc.
Sharp General Contracting
Timon Towers
Tonawanda Church of Christ
Town of Newfane
Town of Tonawanda
Town of Wales
Town of Wheatfield
U.S. Border Patrol
Uniland
University of Buffalo
Village of Akron
Walker Center
Weinberg Campus

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New York Geographies Served by A-1 Concrete Leveling

We serve all the municipalities of Erie and Niagara counties.
We also serve Genesee, Wyoming, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Orleans counties.

Municipalities of Erie County
Akron (village)
Alden (town)
Alden (village)
Amherst (town)
Angola on the Lake (hamlet)
Angola (village)
Aurora (town)
Billington Heights (hamlet)
Blasdell (village)
Boston (town)
Brant (town)
Buffalo (city)
Cheektowaga (town)
Clarence Center (hamlet)
Clarence (town)
Colden (town)
Collins (town)
Concord (town)
Depew (village)
East Amherst (hamlet)
East Aurora (village)
Eden (town)
Elma Center
Elma (town)
Evans (town)
Farnham (village)
Gowanda (village)
Grand Island (town)
Hamburg (town)
Hamburg (village)
Harris Hill (hamlet)
Holland (town)
Kenmore (village)
Lackawanna (city)
Lake Erie Beach (hamlet)
Lake View (hamlet)
Lancaster (town)
Lancaster (village)
Marilla (town)
Newstead (town)
North Boston
North Collins (town)
North Collins (village)
Orchard Park (town)
Orchard Park (village)
Sardinia (town)
Sloan (village)
Springville (village)
Tonawanda (town)
Tonawanda (city)
Town Line (hamlet)
Wales (town)
West Seneca (town)
Williamsville (village)

Municipalities of Niagara County
Barker (village)
Cambria (town)
Gasport (CDP)
Hartland (town)
Lewiston (village)
Lewiston (town)
Lockport (town)
Lockport (city)
Middleport (village)
Newfane (town)
Newfane (CDP)
Niagara Falls (city)
Niagara (town)
North Tonawanda (city)
Olcott (CDP)
Pendleton (town)
Porter (town)
Ransomville (CDP)
Rapids (CDP)
Royalton (town)
Sanborn (hamlet)
Somerset (town)
South Lockport
Wheatfield (town)
Wilson (village)
Wilson (town)
Youngstown (village)

Best Ever Response to a Practical Joke!!!

One of the best things about exhibiting at the Buffalo Home & Garden show is the interactions the vendors have with each other.

As a customer, you will see that we genuinely like and respect each other; it is evident is the referral process. We are constantly sending customers to other companies when the project they need a solution for is not something that we do and we receive many referrals from exhibiting vendors as well. This in-building referral process happens naturally and having so many contractors and service-providers who know each other in one place makes the Buffalo Home & Garden Show a must-attend for those with home improvement needs. Along with establishing contact with potential new customers and connecting with past customers, we have built and supported some great professional relationships through the show.

What you may not see is the fact that we also really like to have fun and play tricks on each other. If there were an award for "Best Sport" for practical jokes being played it would have to be Michael Pace from Pace Landscaping. We upped the ante this year by commandeering Mike's tv slideshow when he stepped away to get a bite to eat. We replaced the lovely pictures of the fantastic work he provides with an "after" picture that resembled Sanford & Sons yard. Of course we waited until the last hour of the show to do this and I stood closely by to let any passing customers know that we were playing a little joke and that Pace is a truly great landscape company. The customers laughed with us and really seemed to enjoy the fact that the vendors have a comaraderie that allows for practical jokes.

Upon Mike's return, he immediately told a customer that he could also do this to their yard and that the safety cones and plastic furniture would be extra. He played it out with a few customers who understood the joke and laughed heartily at his straight-faced sales pitch for this "after" result. Truly hilarious and one of the best sports ever. He played through it like a champ!

Mike, thanks so much. You're the best!!! By the way, we are scheming and plotting for next year; we suggest you do the same;-)

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