Owner, Bradley Wiebe has been installing windows and doors in Saskatoon and area for over 10 years. They only install Canadian manufactured windows and doors. These products are built for the Saskatchewan climate. Brad takes pride in ensuring that his client’s windows and doors are installed correctly and that quality products are being used. In their latest Saskatoon windows and door tip they share some info from an article by Plygem on going green. Wiebe Windows & More are Trusted Saskatoon Windows & Door Experts!
IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO GO GREEN?
ENERGY STAR® is a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through superior energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR® symbol helps consumers quickly and easily identify major appliances and other energy-using equipment that save energy. Products that display the ENERGY STAR® symbol have been tested according to prescribed procedures and have been found to meet or exceed higher energy efficiency levels without compromising performance.
By choosing ENERGY STAR® qualified products, buyers save energy and money on utility bills, and reduce air pollution without sacrificing the features, versatility or style they expect from high-performing products. With our sixty-seven-year presence in the Canadian marketplace, our windows and doors have been proudly wearing the ENERGY STAR® symbol for many years and we continue to strive to develop energy-efficient products to allow our customers to save money in energy costs; while not compromising on aesthetics.
To find out more about ENERGY STAR® in Canada, please visit: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/products/energystar/about/12529
Canada has been divided into three climate zones based on annual average temperature. Zone 1 is the mildest and Zone 3 is the coldest.
Palliser Rooms is an independently owned business proudly serving Saskatoon and the surrounding area. Their experienced, friendly sales consultants are dedicated to ensuring your shopping experience is positive. This effort extends to their professional, courteous delivery team and onsite service department. Their furniture brands are carefully chosen for their style and value with an emphasis on custom choices. In our latest article, we are shining a light on Pallier Rooms EQ3 as they celebrate their 20th anniversary! Palliser EQ3 is a Trusted Saskatoon Furniture Store.
Trusted Saskatoon Furniture Store Palliser Rooms EQ3 Celebrates It's 20th Anniversary in Style!
Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this article to see how to have not just 1 but 3 entries to win the $500 Palliser Rooms EQ3 Gift Card up for grabs!!
Palliser Rooms EQ3 is an independent, locally-owned furniture store that opened in 2002. The store is well known in Saskatoon for offering a generous selection of contemporary and stylish furnishings and focusing on supporting Canadian-owned brands. The mission at Palliser Rooms EQ3 is to help you create a beautiful home for your family. The local team prides itself on offering personalized service that is forward-thinking and client-focused.
Brian and Judy Bird first owned and ran the local furniture store for about a decade and a half, then when the opportunity arose their daughter Allison, and son-in-law Tristan Rawlings, were able to purchase, and they now manage the family business.
When entering Palliser Rooms’ vast 23,000-square-foot retail space, you don't feel overwhelmed, which can be an issue in other warehouse-style national chain furniture stores. Palliser Rooms has a light, airy, visually stunning, surprisingly intimate, inviting feel. The smell of new and superior-quality leather furniture is appealing, and their careful arrangement of stylish accessories complements the floor models without overwhelming the eye.
The Secret Sauce?
Palliser Rooms EQ3 has hundreds of Google reviews, highly rated there and anywhere else you find online reviews. When reading the comments, it is abundantly clear that the staff at Palliser Rooms understand their customers. They recognize that high-quality products, excellent customer service, and fair pricing are the key to success, customer loyalty, and longevity in a competitive retail marketplace.
"Always a fantastic experience at Palliser Rooms/EQ3, from Tristan through the entire Sales Team and all the staff. I'm always greeted and made to feel welcome as soon as I come through the door. Amazing selection of high-quality products!" - Christine McTavish
"I am so impressed with the low-pressure and top-notch service at Palliser Rooms. I didn't realize it is locally owned and operated!!! I strongly believe in supporting local, and it is really easy to support a local business when Palliser Rooms has excellent customer service and awesome prices. Thanks again for all your assistance with my furniture." - Dave Owens
Other Trusted Saskatoon Partners also agree…
"Great service, quality and price. Would highly recommend Palliser to anyone! We love Palliser Rooms/EQ3 furniture, and their service is excellent. They have some great furniture for small spaces, and I love all the custom options!" - Brad and Anna, owners, Wiebe Windows & More.
"Very helpful and made purchasing our furniture easy and enjoyable." - Sheryl Harras - Owner, Backyard Living Centre
The comments clearly reflect the company's commitment to providing excellent customer service. They speak to the beautiful taste and attention to detail.
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When we asked General manager Tristan Rawlings, what he thought was the secret to Palliser Rooms / EQ3's success, he said
"Palliser Rooms embodies an 'all about choices' philosophy. We understand whether you have an inherent "do-it-yourself" personality or find decorating an overwhelming process. Our staff is committed to providing valuable information, inspiration and the necessary tools to make your project-large or small-a success."
What clearly defines Palliser Rooms is the idea that designing a home is a process and not just a matter of purchasing furniture or accessories to fill a void. If you are trying to plan out your decor for a new house or a redesigned space, they go the extra mile. If that is the case, the staff at Palliser Rooms encourages customers to bring their blueprints, drawings, pictures or ideas to the showroom. The professional consultants are committed to helping you plan your space and visualize your best look. Their goal is to take an experience that can sometimes be overwhelming and transform it into a "style journey" that is pleasant, easy, and fun.
We want to congratulate Tristan and the Palliser Rooms EQ3 team on 20 years of excellence. We look forward to promoting them for many years to come.
In the last 10 years, Palliser Rooms / EQ3 has been re-checked, re-verified, and mystery-shopped, and has passed each and every time. They continue to be one of the best furniture stores in Saskatoon and area and have always upheld our 5 TRUSTED GUARANTEES of service for their 11 YEARS as Trusted Saskatoon Partners.
HOW TO ENTER THE PALLIER EQ3 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONTEST
Palliser EQ3 - Given the Thumbs Up as a Trusted Saskatoon Furniture Store for over 11 years!
Your first step into the beautiful Wheatland Fireplace Kitchen & Bath Saskatoon showroom will help you understand why Wheatland Fireplace has been given the Thumbs up by Trusted Saskatoon. Wheatland loves their customers and as a result, their customers love and TRUST them. In their latest bathroom tip, they discuss designing the perfect shower.
Designing the perfect shower should be a customized experience based on your needs and the layout of your bathroom. By using Fleurco's
Design a shower tool you will be guided through a seamless process to design the shower of your dreams. Here are the simple steps to building a shower space to fit into your perfect bathroom:
1) Select the door type that suits the style of the bathroom you are creating and to fulfil your configuration needs for in-line (alcove) showers, two-sided showers and bathtub enclosures.
- Bypass: 2 sliding panels, allowing entry from either side of the enclosure.
- Sliding Shower: 1 sliding panel for shower access.
- Pivot: 1 outward swinging door, with or without a fixed panel.
- Walk-in: European style, with an open entry to the shower space.
- Corner Shower: A space-saving solution designed to fit in the corner of a bathroom.
2)
Measure your door opening. This is the most important step in the design process to ensure a quick and easy shower door installation. Keep in mind that your dimensions must be measured with finished walls.
3) Select your door style. Fleurco collections are expertly designed to enhance bathrooms of all styles, including framed or frameless looks.
4) Add personality to your shower by selecting your hardware finish. Doors can be adorned with a variety of finishes including chrome, brushed nickel and matte black.
5) Select your base for a seamless look. The majority of bases are constructed from acrylic and come with a 10-year limited warranty. They are easy to install, clean and maintain, and are available with several drain placement choices.
If you're looking for something more elevated in style, opt for a solid surface base instead. They are available in several different styles and functionalities.
6) Take your shower enclosure a step further by including a
Fibo by Fleurco Wall System. With 7 luxurious patterns to choose from, you will be sure to find what you need.
Wheatland Fireplace, Kitchen & Bath are successful for a reason! This really is where your outdoor living and indoor fireplace, bathroom & kitchen dreams meet in spectacular surroundings! Wheatland services and installs high-quality fireplaces, Visit their website or stop by their showroom to feel the warmth and comfort of their amazing selection.
"Better Living Begins Here... At Wheatland, it is ALL ABOUT YOU!"
Gareth McKee and his Trusted Saskatoon IT team at Burnt Orange Solutions promise to have a one-hour response time for all your IT support needs. Honesty and respect are important to them. They pride themselves on ensuring their clients understand IT concerns by providing a straightforward and reliable solution with exceptional service. Burnt Orange Solutions are your Trusted Saskatoon IT Experts. In their latest Saskatoon IT expert tip, they discuss technology and your customer's experience.
Customer service expectations have grown over the last few years, and Saskatoon businesses have had to adapt to meet the needs of their customers. If you have not added any technology to improve your customer’s experiences here are a few ideas for you.
49% of consumers have left a brand in the past year due to poor experience; however, the emerging technology of today can power the customer experiences of the future. In order to create a positive customer experience, fuel brand loyalty and drive sales growth, Saskatoon businesses and beyond must find the right digital tools for their business. Here are a few options:
The Cloud
The Cloud and the tools backed by this technology are very important in every business organization. As technology advances, the amounts of available sales channels increases as well. Think about it, you can make a purchase at the local retail store by walking in, phoning it in, or ordering it online. There are about eight different channels for most customer engagements. No matter what channel customers choose to use, brands need to gather, centralize and react to that data. Organizations are relying on cloud technology to manage these interactions and keep the information. The days of pen and paper don’t work as well anymore.
Chatbots
With today’s technology, i.e. smartphone and mobile search features, today’s consumers are used to immediate answers and on-demand access to the web. Most people are willing to wait up to four hours for an online response. However, approximately 90% of consumers' inquiries go unanswered by brands. In comes Chatbots. They are artificial intelligence designed to engage in conversation with human users over the internet. They are quickly taken over customer service functions for many businesses as they are able to respond to customer questions and fulfil the consumer’s desire for an immediate response.
Augmented Reality Technology and Your Customer’s Experience
90% of all information is visual, our brains are built for visual information. It takes only 13 milliseconds for the human brain to process an image. Based on this fact, it is known customers often have a difficult time, visualizing what an item will look like when they buy it and put it in their home. Augmented Reality allows a consumer to take a picture of the room, place the item in the picture and now they can visualize it in their home.
Burnt Orange IT Solutions Products & Services:
Backyard Living Center is a locally owned and operated Saskatoon hot tub store. They offer an exclusive line of high-quality Canadian-built hot tubs that are perfectly suited to the Saskatchewan climate. With a variety of design choices, they have a spa that will suit every lifestyle! Service means everything to owners Sheryl and Matthew! Whether it's finding the perfect spa, hot tub servicing or repair, water testing, or helping find or deliver parts for your hot tub, they're here to help. In this Saskatoon hot tub tip, we continue the series of experts answering all your FAQs about hot tubs.
Backyard Living Center Is Your Trusted Saskatoon Hot Tub Store!
How is the hot tub insulated?
Several spa manufacturers have always insisted that the only way to insulate a spa is with “full urethane foam”. In this method, all the glued plumbing within the spa is covered using a sprayed-on foam. This method was fine twenty years ago but like many materials, safer, better alternatives have been developed. Certainly, urethane foam is acceptable as an insulator but more often than not it is primarily used as a structural backup. Where there is limited structural integrity, urethane foam is used as a substitution because it “holds together all the components of the spa” and compensates for a limited engineered structure. Alternates to full foam spas have been developed to address the issue of gaining access to the plumbing within the spa. H2O spas have developed their own unique Multi-Layer Insulation System.
What are the pros and cons of a urethane foam-filled spa?
The Pros of using urethane foam:
It is used primarily to insulate the hot tub against the environment, therefore, reducing operating costs.
Secondly, it can be used as a substitute for structural support where there is little or no frame structure. Imagine a large block of foam with everything trapped inside.
The Cons of using urethane foam:
Urethane spray foam used for insulating hot tubs is a two-part chemical product that when mixed, results in an expanding foam component. It is used under strict safety codes because of the unhealthy ‘off gassing’ fumes.
The resulting foam expands into the cavities of the hot tub solidifying as it cures sealing all ventilating apertures. We all have to breathe, and so does your hot tub. Preventing air circulation inside the cavity of the hot tub creates the perfect condition for possible future mold growth.
Once the hot tub has been foam-filled it is extremely difficult to service the tub particularly if you experience a water leak in the complex plumbing underneath the tub. A simple plumbing defect can take hours to trace and repair. Tracing the leak becomes more difficult than the actual repair.
The biggest problem occurs after the repair has been completed and you have taken out the wet foam to reach the leak area. What do you use to replace the insulation you have removed? Usually, this is done with an expensive canned substitute of the foam which inevitably does not have the same insulation properties of the originally installed foam – in other words, it is being replaced with a substitute that may possibly affect the insulation qualities of the hot tub. There is also the problem of discarding the saturated foam which must be packed separately and isolated from normal garbage.
Any water contamination from the internal plumbing deteriorates the foam creating a sludge that is prone to mold growth and if the foam has been used as a structural substitute, this can possibly weaken the spa.
Is it detrimental to the efficiency of the hot tub if all four sides of the spa are not foam-filled?
Our tests show that the insulation benefits of partially removing some insulation from one side of the hot tub are outweighed by replacing the insulation with electronic equipment and two electric motors, each one generating surplus heat. In fact the two motors generate so much heat that we evacuate the surplus heat and pipe it to the air intakes of the spa jets, thus supplying warm air automatically when the jet pumps are engaged.
What are the benefits of using Roxul insulation?
Practical to use; anyone can handle it safely. Sold in most hardware stores this amazing material is readily available.
Can be removed and replaced without instruction, just use a common sense approach when handling this material.
Roxul is fire retardant. Even when held to a naked flame it will not ignite.
Environmentally prudent; disposal, if required, can be the same as with any household garbage.
Water repellent. If a leak occurs in the tub it cannot damage the Roxul. Being water repellent, moisture will pass right through the Roxul leaving it completely dry.
Deters rodents because it is an inert material made from lava rock that cannot be eaten or affected by animals.
Recyclable; there is no need to throw it away. Just store it in a dry environment for future use.
Roxul has an R-Value equal to or better than traditional insulation materials including low-density open cell urethane foam.
Roxul is used in many commercial and residential buildings costing millions of dollars. Does it make sense to use such an amazing material in a product costing much less? Of course, it does, that is why we led the way by using Roxul as an insulating system in all H2O Spas.
How much is your house worth? Hundreds of thousands of dollars? Most houses are now built using Roxul Insulation, it makes sense to use it as an insulator in your hot tub.
Helps reduce equipment noise. Roxul is renowned for its ability to capture noise and is used extensively as a noise barrier.
See their selection of in-stock H2O Canadian-made premium spas at their showroom on Brodsky Avenue, or visit their website for more choices and information on hot tub supplies, hot tub care, and maintenance and service. Take it from us… you will not be disappointed!!!
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“Your Backyard Oasis is Waiting For You!”
You can read more amazing client testimonials and see all products and services they offer by checking out the Backyard Living Center’s listing by clicking on the link below.
