(PRWEB) August 28, 2014

Stainless steel scratch repair is not something that can simply be handled with a $20 bottle of cream from your local department store. This is why the professionals at Western Glass Restoration are now going nationwide with their stainless steel scratch repair, graffiti removal and glass repair service.

Dealing with anything from small orders to very large projects, the experts at Western Glass Restoration are some of the best in the country with the best solution for stainless steel scratch repair. With multi-step processes for buffing, polishing and restoring scratched stainless steel to a brand new looking surface, Western Glass Restoration is the best in the business. Restoring scratched stainless steel is always cheaper than replacing appliances or the stainless steel itself. To find out more information, visit their website at http://westernglassrestoration.com.

Western Glass Restoration understands that stainless steel scratch repair and removal can be challenging to do yourself with products that give lack luster performances. This is why Western Glass Restoration makes repairing any stainless steel from elevators and commercial kitchen appliances, to any home stainless steel appliances a quick, affordable, and professional process.

Originally based in California, Western Glass Restoration has been an industry leader in glass restoration, stainless steel scratch repair, graffiti removal and glass resurfacing for over 28 years. Since opening their doors over 3 decades ago, Western Glass Restoration has mostly serviced clients in Dana Point, Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego Area and Sand Bernardino/Riverside County. Since then they have expanded to all of California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas. However, wherever there is a need for their services they have traveled, and are now ready to launch full services to the entire United States. Western Glass Restoration has been featured on KTLA 5 for helping many business owners that have been a target of graffiti and vandalism.

To learn more about Western Glass Restoration Services, visit them at http://www.westernglassrestoration.com or call: (949) 253-7700

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A West Palm Beach woman is getting some much-needed help after fire badly damaged her mobile home.

Angie Wielonski and her three children were in the mobile home Tuesday when the kitchen caught fire. They escaped without getting hurt.

But the kitchen sustained fire and smoke damage.

Wielonski said she began to worry about where they would stay.

"I'm a single mom, and I have three kids," Wielonski said. "One of them is autistic, and one of them has ADHD. We're on disability, so I really can't afford to pay my rent and pay to fix the damages."

The American Red Cross put the family up in a hotel for one night.

A businessman who owns a fire, smoke and water restoration company saw the story that aired on WPBF-TV and decided to help.

Don Dillon said he wants to pay for the family to stay in the hotel longer and give them money for food. He has also offered to repair her home for free.

"We're going to put a crew out there (Friday) morning to see how we can help clean the place up and try to get her back in there in three or four days," Dillon said.

Wielonski said the principal at her children's school is helping them with food and paid for two nights at the hotel.

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RINEYVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Nearly twenty years in the military took its toll on Jeremiah Lucas' family. A tumor removal surgery on his spine took an even bigger toll on him.

Barely able to walk from nerve damage, the Master Sergeant had never even made the trip upstairs in the family's Rineyville, Kentucky home. But when Jeremiah got assistance to travel the stairs on Monday, he couldn't believe his eyes.

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Dawn Lucas wrote an essay to WAVE 3 News and Active Heroes, hoping to win a bedroom makeover for Jeremiah's two daughters. The family had moved time and time again and spent so much time without Jeremiah at home. It worked. The Lucases were among three families selected.

Every deployment, every birthday missed, this makes it all worthwhile, said Dawn Lucas.

Jeremiah couldn't even speak when he saw the transformation of his girls' rooms. New furniture. Fancy electronics. Their smiling faces. Made my kids' year," said Jeremiah. "I can't explain how excited they are and how much that means to me."

Paul Davis Restoration built a wheelchair ramp so Jeremiah won't need help getting into his house any more. That gives him the independence to come and go without help.

A new dishwasher from Charlie Wilson's Appliance makes kitchen work easier for Dawn. But it's those upstairs rooms that left their daughters gasping for words and ready to throw a party with their friends in their new stylish digs.

They ain't getting this room," Jeremiah joked. "I'm gonna keep it. But you could tell this was one veteran who will gladly cede that territory without putting up a fight.

The Lucas family says after all that moving as Jeremiah served his country, their newly upgraded home in Rineyville is their permanent home.

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Theres not so much of a smell of smoke about the Museum at the Portage now.

Two months into repair and restoration work at the fire-damaged former home of Zona Gale, there is a new sense of freshness.

The building was damaged by an electrical fire on April 13. The area around an upstairs window in Gales former bedroom was heavily damaged by fire, and other places in the building especially in the historic study, directly below the bedroom, was damaged by water and smoke.

The 1912 brick structure at 804 MacFarlane Road in Portage was once home to author and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zona Gale, and was the former site of the Portage Public Library. It is now a museum of artifacts important to Gale and to Portage.

The repair work involves freshening the woodwork in the study, including cleaning all surfaces and restoring the look of the varnish in areas where it is cracked and faded with age particularly around the windows.

The water damage on the woodwork above the studys fireplace and on the fireplace itself is now gone. The ceiling plaster in the study was restored last month.

Wood restoration specialists Jerry Pauk of Spring Lake and John Dehling of Wautoma have put in more than 20 hours of work into the study.

There was residual damage of water and smoke, in the room, Pauk said, as well as years of weathering, sun and moister damage to the woodwork surrounding the windows.

Around the windows, the varnish had faded to a gray color. It was treated with oxalic acid, then sanded before finishing with a matching color of varnish.

As a woodworker himself, Hauk fully appreciates how unique and beautiful a space the study is. While the windows need re-glazing, with good maintenance of the outside of the windows, Hauks and Dehlings efforts to restore the interior woodwork should last decades, he said.

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PHOENIX (CBS5) -

Phoenix police said a man was caught Tuesday morning as he tried to burglarize a home being renovated by a good Samaritan Phoenix police officer and his friends.

Jesus Salas, 29, was caught as he tried to run from the Maryvale home of Linda Tims about 7 a.m. Tuesday, Phoenix police Officer James Holmes said.

Salas was holding copper pipe when officers arrived and had removed a window air conditioner that had just been installed by Officer Glenn Branham and friends he recruited to help clean out and fix up Tims' home that had been damaged by previous criminal activity.

Tims' plight and the unselfish acts of Branham, et al., were featured on CBS 5 News on Aug. 22.

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Tims' unoccupied home was initially burglarized Aug. 17 after she was forced to move in with her daughter. Her air conditioner had been damaged by thieves who were after the copper piping.

On his own time, Branham began cleaning Tims' house. He and some friends and other volunteers he recruited replaced the stolen copper pipes, fixed the air conditioning and help clean out the house from years of hoarding. Branham spent his own money to replace the pipes, Holmes said.

On Saturday, Aug. 23, Branham and about 20 friends and family started to get the home ready for renovation.

The next day, about 7 a.m. while on patrol, Branham drove by Tims' house only to find that someone had again broken in and stolen about $1,000 of her personal property.

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Home of Paige Sweet - builder is John Marc Gallagher.

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Sheila North Wilson, CTV Winnipeg Published Monday, August 25, 2014 3:43PM CST Last Updated Monday, August 25, 2014 5:31PM CST

Normally, shelves used to dry homes from water damage is full of equipment at MX Group, a Winnipeg home restoration company.

Thanks to the significant rain fall last week, most of it is out and in homes doing what renovation experts say we should all do after water seeps into a house.

"Look for traces of water initially but the first and foremost is to actually deal with it immediately," said Bob Leigh of MX Group.

If not, he says mould will almost certainly start to form.

"It's hazardous to our health right. It's hazardous to people that are. You know seniors are affected by it. Young children are affected by it. It's something you want to mitigate and get rid of from your home," added Leigh.

Experts say if you start to notice mould forming on children's clothes or toys, it's best to get rid of it.

Leigh said the first sign of mould is usually a musty odour and by then it may be too late to salvage most things.

To prevent mould from forming in the first place, Leigh suggests cleaning surfaces and items with soap, not bleach, as soon as possible.

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Sheila North Wilson, CTV Winnipeg Published Monday, August 25, 2014 3:43PM CST Last Updated Monday, August 25, 2014 5:31PM CST

Normally, shelves used to dry homes from water damage is full of equipment at MX Group, a Winnipeg home restoration company.

Thanks to the significant rain fall last week, most of it is out and in homes doing what renovation experts say we should all do after water seeps into a house.

"Look for traces of water initially but the first and foremost is to actually deal with it immediately," said Bob Leigh of MX Group.

If not, he says mould will almost certainly start to form.

"It's hazardous to our health right. It's hazardous to people that are. You know seniors are affected by it. Young children are affected by it. It's something you want to mitigate and get rid of from your home," added Leigh.

Experts say if you start to notice mould forming on children's clothes or toys, it's best to get rid of it.

Leigh said the first sign of mould is usually a musty odour and by then it may be too late to salvage most things.

To prevent mould from forming in the first place, Leigh suggests cleaning surfaces and items with soap, not bleach, as soon as possible.

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(PRWEB) August 25, 2014

HomeThangs.com the Online Home Improvement Store has made their goal to deliver the right product to the consumer. With that in mind, shopping and home design tips as well as special product selections are being introduced.

HomeThangs.com has introduced a new line of restoration bathroom vanities. These vanities are designed to act as a bridge between traditional and contemporary styles, but with a slightly different twist than more conventional transitional bathroom vanities. Rather than simplifying and streamlining antique designs, restoration vanities are based on reclaimed versions of more recent antiques, with an emphasis on rustic, weathered wood and aged metal parts.

Restoration bathroom vanities combine the tactile simplicity of turn of the century American designs with just a hint of humble French country elegance. Where most traditional bathroom vanities place an emphasis on elaborate carved wood detailing, restoration bathroom vanities showcase a simpler style, like shaker cabinets, Cape Cod inspired shuttered cabinets, or even a simple, open shelf design, all done in elegantly weathered wood. It's the wood itself that's the real star of these vanities, rather than the elaborate wood detailing iconic of more traditional antique bathroom vanities.

As part of a larger trend towards using weathered, reclaimed wood in home design, restoration bathroom vanities almost always use wood with a natural, weathered finish, distinctive grain, and prominent texture. Where many antique and contemporary vanities are finished to a nice, glossy polish, restoration vanities are left more rough and rustic, which creates a much more natural and inviting appearance. That said, these vanities rarely use wood that's actually reclaimed, for much the same reason that real antiques aren't usually placed in the bathroom: they wouldn't hold up well to the fluctuating temperature and humidity of the bathroom.

Instead, most restoration bathroom vanities - like those produced by James Martin Furniture - are made from kiln dried wood thats intentionally weathered and very thoroughly sealed, rather than actual reclaimed wood. This produces a very similar final look, but ensures the vanity's longevity, and will prevent warping or splintering that are more common with naturally weathered wood.

That said, restoration bathroom vanities are designed to have the same unique depth of character of a genuinely reclaimed piece, and can be quite heavily weathered; small chips and scuffs, knots, and other inconsistencies in the wood give these vanities a down-to-earth, practical look and feel, which again makes them a bit better suited for a contemporary space.

Though the design of HomeThangs' new line of restoration vanities is quite subtle compared to traditional vanities as a whole, the use of aged wood gives them a sense of weight and history that most contemporary and even transitional vanities lack. While most transitional vanities are polished, streamlined cabinets that merely nod toward their historical inspirations, restoration bathroom vanities genuinely feel weathered and old. At the same time, though, they certainly arent run-down or overly rugged; the simple, clean lines keep restoration bathroom vanities from feeling beat up, and instead make them feel natural and earthy, which meshes well with the trend toward spa-inspired bathroom spaces.

Restoration bathroom vanities also often feature unique or unusual hardware. While the hardware isnt conventionally antique in style, it tends to be similarly ornate and eye-catching, using aged reclaimed metal parts rather than traditional cabinet pulls to add a little flair to the design. While contemporary or even most transitional vanities err on the side of fairly minimalist hardware, the hardware used on restoration bathroom vanities is often the most ornate part of the design, and lends an antique air even to a relatively simple cabinet design.

For more information about HomeThangs.com's new collection of restoration bathroom vanities, check out the full article here.

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ORLANDO,Fla.

An Orlando woman claims the restoration company she hired to put her life back together after a flood wrecked her home instead, and she's been living without a kitchen for a year and a half.

A pipe burst when no one was home, flooding Marie Dolce's kitchen. Overwhelmed, she hired an emergency restoration contractor the next day to dry out and rebuild -- a decision that she said she regrets.

I feel like they just took the money and they aren't going to do anything else, said Dolce.

Dolce said her insurance company paid Emergency Flood Services in Deltona, $7,000 18 months ago for the total loss.

Her kitchen is still empty, Dolce said they ripped out the damage and then never came back.

I call these people almost every day and every time they have an excuse, said Dolce.

The address for Emergency Flood Services is a UPS Store mail box. By phone, contractor Chris Defronzo told Todd Ulrich that all the insurance money was spent and the total loss was more than $20,000. That's why the work was not completed.

Action 9 asked insurance expert Ron Livingstone, a public adjuster, to see what happened to that $7,000.

Did they spend that money here? asked Ulrich.

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