Take Time to Look at These Beautiful Flowers!!!

Springtime

Folks look forward to seeing the beautiful flowers blossom during May. New leaves and colorful blossoms help us all enjoy a special time of year, "SPRING". Spring is like a new beginning. Winter has taken its toll from the cold, fridged weather. We can now start over to plant and enjoy "new life" in our "gardens". All the folks at Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware are excited to see the "beautiful flowers" and warm days. We relate this season and our daily business with you, our loyal and dedicated friends, as a time of refreshing. New opportunities are "springing up" with many of you. We see many of your employees "blossoming" as they take on new and challenging responsibilities. We are "plowing" hard to create "new ground". We are offering training classes throughout the state to make your ground "fertile". We have recently brought new products to "market". We have "planted" several "seed" projects with clients throughout North Carolina and South Carolina. Our employees at Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware are anxious to help you "GROW" your project. Please call us at 800-535-7972. We are ready and able to make your project a little easier.

This month includes Memorial Day. This special day is dedicated to remembering all the veterans who gave the ultimate sacrifice, their lives, that we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. We are blessed to have three armed forces veterans employed here at Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware.

Roger Hill - Served 1965 - 71, US Army Reserves, E5 Infantry, Sergeant

Ed Von Cannon - Served 1962 - 63, US Army, Infantry

Kevin Lamonds - Served 1984 - 86, US Army, Specialist 4, Light Weld Vehicle Mechanic

We honor all three of these men and hope you will make special plans on May 31 to remember those who served.

I Appreciate You!
Ed Shimpock, AHC, V.P., General Manager

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Take a moment to look at these Pearl Harbor photos that were taken by a sailor who was on the USS Quapaw ATF-110 on December 7, 1941.

Recent Project

Iredell Statesville Schools - Auto Tech School
Installed floor mounted, overhead braced, solid plastic toilet partitions into a newly constructed bathroom.

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Customer Spotlight

Our featured customer of the month is Ron Mack. Ron has been the Director of Maintenance for Elkin City Schools for over 24 years. He and his wife, Roxie have 2 children, Rupard and Rheannon. Ron's hobbies include wood working and gardening.

"I have purchased from Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware as long as they have been in business. I purchase from them because they have friendly sales people inside the office and out in the field. They also have a great installation crew. We have three schools in our system, therefore we don't purchase that much and I feel we are treated the same, if not better than if we purchased thousands of dollars each year. Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware supports our Maintenance Association each year through district meetings and the conventions and workshops. They won a bid on some toilet partitions several years ago which included installation. They made the job go as smoothly as possible without any problems. I appreciate Seven Oaks Doors and Hardware for making my job a little easier." ~ Ron Mack

Featured Product of the Month

Code Changes Impart New Restrictions on Fire Rated Glass For Doors

The International Building Code-2006 version eliminates the use of the traditional wired glass in hazardous locations (doors, sidelites, and windows near the floor). Under the new code, the fire rated glass used in these locations must also be impact-safety rated to meet the CPSC 16CFR 1201 (Consumer Product Safety Commission/U.S. code of Federal Regulations, titles 16, part 1201/see CPSC testing impact video of SAFE-Wire here). To meet the requirements of fire and safety-rated glazing, Seven Oaks Door and Hardware can offer products that satisfy the new codes. SAFE-Wire, from Anemostat Products is a fire and CPSC 16 CFR 1201-Category II rated product. It combines the fire ratings of traditional polished wired glass with a special non-flammable safety film applied to one side. SAFE-Wire carries the same fire ratings as the "old-style" wire glass and is the most cost effective product that meets the new code. Also available is the Firelite® family of ceramic products, when a wire-free, ordinary glass appearance is desired. Firelite® NT or Plus both carry the Category II safety rating and can be fire rated for use in doors at up to 3 hours. Firelite® NT has a surface-applied safety-film, while Firelite Plus® is a laminated product incorporating a safety interlayer between two pieces of Firelite®.

Both SAFE-Wire™ and Firelite® products are permanently etched with the appropriate labeling information, showing compliance with the new codes (IBC 2006 and NFPA 80 requires each piece of fire and safety rated glass to have a permanent label identifying the tested properties of the glass). See examples of the labels here.

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Technical data sheets, fire ratings charts and much more information can also be found at www.anemostat.com

Just for Laughs

May 2010, Vol. 2 - Issue 5

In this issue:

Recent Project

Customer Spotlight

Featured Product

Just for Laughs

Outside the Office

Outside the Office

Sue Loy

Pictured above is Sue Loy, Product Applications Specialist, standing in front of her home and arbor. The arbor was made using recycled materials from the old breezeway of her home. The vine on the right is Lonicera or "Trumpet Vine" and the one on the left is Akedia which blooms later and has a maroon color flower. Both were planted in 2001.

More Seven Oaks Gardeners:

Photo taken by Ned & Gayle Russell

Eddie's Garden

Photo taken by Ed Shimpock

Renee's Garden

Photo taken by Renee Morton

Kevin's Garden

Photo taken by Kevin & Leigh Anne Lamonds

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Trivia Question

Can you name this Seven Oaks Doors & Hardware Customer Service Representative "flower child"?

1.   Rodney Mauldin
2.   Becky Preslar
3.   David Hill

We will take all the correct entries and randomly draw 1 winner who will receive a $25 gift card.

Send your trivia answers to: trivia@sevenoakshardware.com

Last Month's Trivia Winner

Beverly Kubacki - Stanly County Schools

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What We Do

We Sell & Install Commercial Hollow Metal Doors, Wood Doors & Fiberglass Doors

We Sell, Key & Install All Major Brands of Commercial Locks, Exit Devices & Door Closers

We Sell & Install Automatic Door Operators

We Sell & Install Computer Managed Access Control and
Wireless Access Control

We Sell & Install Toilet Partitions & Toilet Accessories

SERVICE AREA:

North & South Carolina, South Central Virginia

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Comments from Customers

"The guys (installers) do a great job! They come in, work hard. They are neat, cheerful and just a joy to work with. I would recommend them to anyone."
- Larry Royster, Granville Co. Schools

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Upcoming Trade Shows

May 10 - 13: North Carolina Association of Non-Profit Homes for the Aging Spring Conference and Exhibition at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center in New Bern, NC.

May 26 - 28: North Carolina Public School Maintenance Association Western Convention/Workshop at the Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, NC.

August 10 - 12: North Carolina Healthcare Engineers Association Conference at the Kingston Plantation at North Myrtle Beach, SC.

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Quotes About Flowers

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
~Claude Monet

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." ~Walt Whitman

"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." ~Andrew Mason