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If your roof in the Atlanta region was damaged by recent hail, here’s 5 reasons to call Schantz Home Improvement.
About Schantz Home Improvement: Schantz Home Improvement Company of Atlanta, Ga. provides contracting services for a variety of exterior home projects. Schantz is not a professional sales organization like many contracting companies. We send an experienced estimator to your home that possesses extensive construction knowledge. We feel it is imperative to understand the complete construction of your home in order to evaluate the proper solution for your home improvement project. Merely understanding a window or piece of siding is not sufficient. We will offer you the solution that provides the best VALUE for your situation.
GAF will replace or repair your roof for FREE for 50 years for material defects or 25 years for workmanship defects. The warranty transfers when you sell your home. You will pay nothing for repairs for the next 25 or 50 years depending on the issue with the roof. Must complete installation by 5/29/11. FIRST 5 customers only. Hurry- don’t miss out.
Who is GAF? GAF is North America’s largest roofing materials manufacturer.
Why use GAF products? Proven quality, wide range of materials, and the manufacturer provides the warranty and maintains the warranty records so you have peace of mind.
Why hire Schantz Home Improvement for your roofing contractor?
Schantz Home Improvement joins an elite group of contractors with the Master Elite Residential Roofing Contractor Certification. To be awarded this recognition, Master Elite Residential Roofing Contractors have undergone Factory Certification and have committed to specific principles and values in their selling practices, business process and installation methods.
The GAF Materials Corporation products being sold and installed are backed By GAF, America’s Largest Roofing Manufacturer. A commitment to providing you with an effective and comprehensive roofing system that delivers satisfaction for years to come is the hallmark of membership in the extremely select national group of GAF Master Elite Residential Roofing Contractors.
In 2004 there were approximately 700 licensed roofing contractors. Less than 20 (2%) were approved as GAF Certified Master Elite Roofers.
“Schantz has always strived to provide exceptional service, ” said Greg Schantz, President of Schantz Home Improvement. “Now our customers have an added level of comfort provided by GAF and their special warranty program for customers of Certified Master Elite Roofers.”
Unfortunately we’ve discovered several local Atlanta roofing contractors advertising they are GAF certified when in fact they are not. Schantz Home Improvement has an authentic certificate and you can always validate our certification by contacting GAF directly, including searching their web site.
Atlanta contractor Schantz Home Improvement mitigates damage and project clean up by assessing property protection needs in advance, and implementing protective measures.
We’ve all seen it. Some have experienced it. The Atlanta contractor leaves a mess of the construction site during or after the project. When you compare contractors to hire, this is usually not even on the consumer checklist, however, it’s one of the most annoying things about construction projects. When the contractor is gone, you shouldn’t have anything to clean up, unless there is a discussion with the contractor in advance about special circumstances.
At Schantz Home Improvement, our construction teams have a checklist of procedures for before, during, and after a project is completed. This includes mitigating potential mess and damage by assessing the areas that will be impacted during the project and and providing the appropriate protective barriers, as the type of project warrants. It is a challenge to keep yards clean, especially when peeling off old materials that break into miniscule pieces which may then be spread by weather conditions.
We can’t eliminate every iota of broken up materials, but there is much that can be done to keep your property safe and mitigate the spread of any debris throughout the entire project. When the Schantz team is gone, you’ll be focused on enjoying your renovation or repair, not on cleaning up after the contractor is done.
Equally important, hazardous materials are properly disposed of, as required by law. We all share in the proper care of our planet, and protecting our environment impacts our drinking water and our health. Below is some interesting information about pollution enforcement in our area.
(Atlanta – Dec. 7, 2010) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 announced today that concluded enforcement actions in fiscal year 2010 (FY 2010) will result in the treatment, minimization or proper disposal of more than 9.8 billion pounds of hazardous wastes. Respondents in the Region 4 states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and on tribal lands will invest more than $420 million in pollution control and cleanup and will implement more than $5 million in Supplemental Environmental Projects. The concluded enforcement actions include more than $15 million in assessed penalties.
”EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment,” said Gwen Keyes-Fleming, EPA Region 4 Administrator. “We are committed in Region 4 to ensuring that pollution problems that impact our communities and neighborhoods are addressed through vigorous civil and criminal enforcement.”
Highlights in Region 4 include the successful conclusion of the Agency’s first case under the National Enforcement Priority for Mining and Mineral Processing with a civil judicial settlement with CF Industries, Inc. of Plant City, FL. This precedent-setting consent decree will require CF to spend over $12 million to reconfigure current manufacturing or waste handling processes and install/operate a Wastewater Treatment Unit and will result in the elimination or treatment of over 9 billion pounds of hazardous waste.
Region 4 is committed to ensuring that enforcement actions achieve measurable results for the environment and the public health in communities that are disproportionately impacted by non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations. To that end, in FY 2010, Region 4 concluded enforcement actions in potential environmental justice areas that will require Respondents to spend more than $237 million to come into compliance with environmental regulations. Seventeen of the enforcement actions concluded in potential environmental justice areas in Region 4 include Supplemental Environmental Projects benefiting communities and populations impacted by non-compliance with environmental laws. Approximately $12 million in federal penalties will be assessed for companies located in these communities.
In FY 2010, the Region 4 Criminal Enforcement Program referred 35 cases for federal prosecution and 1 case to a state court system. Prosecutors in Region 4 charged 13 corporations and 36 individuals with environmental crimes, most of which were felonies. A total of 49 defendants were convicted of environmental crimes. Criminal defendants were assessed over $7.6 million in fines and over $2 million in restitution. In 2010, 26 new investigations were initiated.
As in past years, these results can be viewed using an interactive Web-based tool that highlights many of the enforcement, compliance, and community-based activities that EPA carried out in FY 2010. The website also includes a map that provides the public with detailed information about the enforcement actions taken at more than 4,500 facilities throughout the United States.
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We dug through the EPA site to see more about the direct impact for Georgia. Here’s what we found:
| Civil Enforcement | |
|---|---|
| Estimated Environmental Benefits – Commitments to Reduce Pollution & Protect the Environment: | |
| Direct Environmental Benefits | |
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23,915,000 |
| Investments in Actions & Equipment to Reduce Pollution & Protect the Environment (Injunctive Relief) | $11,194,701 |
| Investments in Projects that Benefit the Environment & Public Health (Supplemental Environmental Projects) | $5,361 |
| Civil Penalties Assessed | $3,304,338 |
| Civil Enforcement and Compliance Activities | |
| Civil Judicial Enforcement Case Conclusions | 3 |
| Final Administrative Penalty Orders | 57 |
| Administrative Compliance Orders | 13 |
John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Inc., and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods of the Carolinas Inc., Atlanta, GA: On November 9, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Inc., and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods of the Carolinas Inc., based in Atlanta, GA, have agreed to pay a $350,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/314c65c7a62095b285257669005e9d2f!OpenDocument
September, 2008– There are 1,340 local roofing contractors listed on YellowPages.com. There are over 100,000 articles in Google to help you find one.
According to one article about how to select an Atlanta Roofing Contractor, “Georgia doesn’t hold roofing contractors to any particular standards or require them to be licensed” making it tricky to find a good one.
That’s not the whole picture. Here’s the 2008 policy regarding Georgia Contractor licenses. Excerpt: Re-Roofing of Existing Structures. The following are allowable categories of work which may be completed or coordinated by a Re-Roofing Limited Service Specialty Contractor:
• Rooftop Equipment • Demolition • Remediation
You may be required to hold a contractor license if your company exceeds this scope of work. See here for more details State Licensing Board for Residential and General Contractors. All work must be done according to local code and ordinances.
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Ok, so we’ve agreed there are 1000′s of possible local service suppliers. How many are GAF Master Elite Certified Roofers? Less than 20. That helps you narrow down your list. GAF Master Elite Certified Roofers meet stringent workmanship and consumer satisfaction standards, plus they provide the most comprehensive written warranties. In other words, these are the guys you want to use when you are spending your hard earned dollars on home repairs, repairs that you want to last for many years.
You’re reading this page so you use the internet for research. Have you used Kudzu to report on any business with good or bad feedback? There are many sites for consumers to place their reviews. We can’t expect our customers to put their reviews on all of them, which leads to fractured information when consumers are trying to compare suppliers. We’ve asked recent customers to put their reviews on Kudzu because they can write reviews not just about us, but other businesses as well, and all in one location.
Read Schantz Home Improvement roof repair customer reviews on Kuzdu.
Don’t be a passive review reader, be part of the solution in developing a guide to finding better services. Don’t just write about Schantz, write reviews on all kinds of businesses you visit. That way we’ll all have much better information on the services we buy and the businesses we frequent. I challenge you to write about three services you have recently purchased right now.