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Still Locally Owned and OperatedMAKE THE

RIGHT CALL

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2 — Home Show 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

ASHTABULA TOWN-

SHIP — With spring just

around the corner, that

means the Ashtabula

County Home Show is

approaching, too, as

spring and the Ashtabu-

la County Home Show

go hand in hand.

The annual show will

be Saturday and Sun-

day during normal mall

hours, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday, and 12-5 p.m.

Sunday, at the Ashtabu-

la Towne Square Mall.

Note that the show is

two days this year.

Dozens of vendors are

expected to participate,

giving residents ideas

on how to update their

home, yard and garden.

Admission and parking

are free.

In its 27th year, the

show is sponsored by

the Ashtabula County

chambers of commerce.

This year, the Horticul-

ture program at A-Tech

will set up a garden

display designed to

inspire people for their

own gardens.

The chambers’ booth

will offer daily drawings

and door prizes. The

prize opportunities this

year include ten $50

gift certiicates that can be used at any of the

Home Show exhibitors.

Ten $50 Ashtabula

Towne Square gift

certiicate also will be given away.

Many of the vendors

also are expected to of-

fer their own drawings.

Vendors located

throughout the concord

of the mall will include

plumbing and heating

companies, furniture

displays, siding and

Ashtabula County Home Show returns March 5-6

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, March 1, 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Home Show 2016 — 3

window displays, spas

and more.

People interested in

outdoor and indoor

projects will be able to

ind something at the Home Show. Guests will be able to talk to

the vendors and ask questions.

Rich Machczynski of Crystal Clear Water

in Jefferson will be on

hand with a demonstra-

tion spa, water treat-

ment chemicals and liners.

Thinking green are vendors like Ash/Craft Industries with its Sheltered Workshop Garden Shoppe, C&L Lawn Service, Canter’s Classic/Weedman and Penniman Bros. Land-

scaping.WSA Inc./Weather

Sealco will have exam-

ples of its products and

professional staff on

hand to discuss your needs. Learn about oth-

er home-improvement options from Quality

Builders, Gutter Helmet, Kitchen Saver, Leaf Fil-

ter North, Inc. and Bath Fitter. Wilkinson Paving representatives will

be on hand to discuss improving driveways.

For heating and

cooling needs, Burdick Plumbing/Heating will have a booth, and Shepp Electric/Gener-ator Pros of Montville is scheduled to show some generators. If it’s time for new furniture,

vendors, such as Cherry Valley Furniture, will be at the Home Show.

To learn more about

the different organi-zations in the county, visit booths such as the Ashtabula County Covered Bridge Festival, Ashtabula County 4-H Foundation, Ashtabula County Children Ser-vices, Ashtabula County Community Action and more.

For more information, contact home show co-

ordinator Becke Creed

at (440) 576-9125.

WARREN DILLAWAY | STAR BEACON

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4 — Home Show 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

ASHTABULA TOWN-

SHIP — After the cold

dark days of winter,

Weather-Sealco’s

display of windows

and sunrooms aim to

remind Home Show

visitors of spring and

warm sunshine.

Weather-Sealco, also

known as WSA Inc.,

has participated in

the Ashtabula County

Home Show for more

than 30 years. And, the

third-generation, fam-

ily-owned business is

celebrating 75 years in

business in Ashtabula

County.

“This year we will

be displaying Seaway

windows including a

bay window, Seaway

sunrooms, iberglass entry doors, motorized

retractable awnings and

vinyl siding,” said Jack

Hogan, head of sales at

WSA Inc.

The energy tax credit

is back for 2016 and

qualifying windows and

doors are eligible for up

to $500 in tax credits,

he said.

In addition, 2016 En-

ergy Star requirements

for the Northern Zone

(Ohio) have changed.

“Customers should

be aware of these

changes to make sure

they are installing a

window that performs

in our area and qualify

for the tax credits,” he

said. “Seaway Signature

Windows — our window

manufacturer located

in Erie, Pa. — exceeds

these new ratings. We

have dealt with Seaway

since 1959 and they are

family owned and oper-

ated just like us.”

Incorporated in 1983,

WSA Inc., is one of the

area’s largest home im-

provement companies

in northeast Ohio. They

specialize in sales and

professional installation

of three- and four-sea-

son sunrooms, vinyl

replacement windows,

vinyl siding, ixed and retractable awnings, pa-

tio covers and screened

enclosures, iberglass

and steel entry doors,

storm doors and glass

block windows.

Now is a good time

for homeowners to buy

windows, sunrooms,

doors, vinyl siding and

other items to improve

the appearance of their

homes, Hogan said.

WSA Inc. had a good

response from crowds

at last year’s Home

Show.

“We participate in

the show every year,”

Hogan said. “The event

really jump-starts the

spring for the busi-

ness.”

WSA Inc. provides

free in-home estimates

days or evenings at

the customer’s con-

venience. For more

information, call 440-

992-9181 or visit online

at www.weathersealco.

com.

BY SHELLEY TERRY

[email protected]

Weather-Sealco will showcase windows at home show

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, March 1, 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Home Show 2016 — 5

JEFFERSON — Home

Show visitors who want

clean, fresh water in

their homes don’t have

to wait for a raincheck,

say the owners of Crys-

tal Clear Water.

Crystal Clear Water’s

booth will include infor-

mation and advice on

water treatment, along

with models of soften-

ers, tanks and pumps.

Crystal Clear Water

provides residential and

and business services

and also installs and

services pools and spas,

for those who want to

add a relaxing oasis to

their home.

Richard and Lydia

Machczynski are the

owners of Crystal Clear

Water in Jefferson.

Their products and ser-

vices include softeners,

iron iltration systems, jet pumps, well pumps,

solution and holding

tanks, cartridge ilters, reverse osmosis, pond

aeration, pool supplies

and chemicals, spas

and spa chemicals.

Throughout the month

of May, high quality

chemicals for pools and

spas are on sale.

Richard is a master

water specialist who

diagnoses and treats

hard water, iron water,

cloudy water, strong

smelling or bad tasting

water. He offers free es-

timates or a free water

analysis to assess cus-

tomers’ needs before

starting a job for them.

“Master water spe-

cialists pass a general

certiied water spe-

cialist exam, which

covers many areas of

the process of water,”

he said. “Then we are

tested separately in

the following areas:

disinfection, iltration, reverse osmosis/ultra-

iltration, deionization, ozonation. We are also

certiied installers. This

is all accomplished

through Water Quality

Association, a national

accreditation body that

develops the tests and

courses. We are also

licensed with the Ohio

Department of Health.”

Lydia said the best

part of the job is help-

ing customers.

“The favorite part

of our business is

improving our custom-

ers’ in-home water,

whether city, well or

pond water,” she said,

“Rich comes in to the

customer’s home and

tests the water to see

what is in it. He inds out what the customer

wants: are they con-

cerned about smell,

taste, bacteria, calcium

build up, staining? We

have the solution for all

these and many other

concerns. We want our

customers happy with

the end result.”

They can also help

customers save money

in the long run.

“Water softeners and

reverse osmosis save

money and energy,”

Richard said. “Your hot

water tank expends

less energy and lasts

many years longer

because calcium build-

up is prevented and

you don’t have to deal

with replacing faucets

from hard water dam-

age. Reverse osmosis

makes your water taste

so much better you can

stop buying drinking

water in plastic bottles,

which is also better for

the environment.”

This will be the eighth

Ashtabula County

Home Show for the

Machczynskis. Both said

they like meeting their

customers in the re-

laxed atmosphere of the

Home Show and enjoy

getting to know more

local residents there.

Crystal Clear Water is

open Monday through

Friday 10 a.m. to 5:30

p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.

to 2 p.m. and Sundays

from Mother’s Day

through July Fourth 10

a.m. to 1 p.m. Crystal

Clear Water is located at

895 Route 46 North. For

more information, call

440-576-5421 or visit

online at ccwatertreat-

ment.com.

BY LORI PINELLI

For the Star Beacon

Crystal Clear Water aims to serve all water needs

LORI PINELLI | FOR THE STAR BEACON

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8 — Home Show 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

CONNEAUT — For

almost a half-century, a

member of the Burdick

family has tended to

the plumbing, heating

and cooling needs of

Conneaut-area resi-

dents.

Burdick Plumbing and

Heating, 228 Harbor

St., Conneaut, marks 48

years in business this

year, and will also be

one of more than 40

vendors at this week-

end’s Ashtabula County

Home Show.

The business began

in 1968 strictly as a

plumber operation,

said Duane Burdick II.

Plumbing is still in the

name, but today the

bulk of the business

— “about 75 percent”

— deals with heating

and air conditioning, he

said. Burdick’s also sells

and services Generac

generators.

“We also handle radi-

ant heat and geo-ther-

mal heating,” Burdick

said. “But we still have a

plumbing division.”

Burdick Plumbing and

Heating employs eight

people and has a leet of nearly a half-dozen

vehicles.

Service calls cover

a wide territory, from

Madison to Erie, Penn-

sylvania.

Like so many other ar-

eas of the house, tech-

nology is making big

inroads in the heating

business. Furnaces, for

example, have become

electronic marvels, Bur-

dick said.

“Furnaces today are

very sophisticated and

are operated by com-

puters,” he said.

Demand is also grow-

ing for thermostats con-

trolled and monitored

by the Internet, Burdick

said.

Owners can check

on the warmth or cool-

ness of their homes via

a smartphone connec-

tion.

The business can use

the same technology to

keep track of furnace

operations for residents

spending the winter out

of the area. On more

than one occasion, Bur-

dick was able to detect

a problem with a fur-

nace using the Internet,

he said.

The good news is

21st century equipment

can be easily it into 19th and 20th century

homes and buildings,

Burdick said.

“We can adapt this

new technology to older

homes,” he said.

Burdick, 39, has been

with the business for 18

years, but it was not his

irst choice. “I actual-ly went to school for

drafting,” he said.

After working in an

ofice for a year, Bur-dick said he realized a

career stuck inside four

walls was not appeal-

ing.

“I went back to school

to study heating and air

conditioning,” he said.

“Now I’m in the ield quite a bit.”

BY MARK TODD

[email protected]

Burdick Plumbing and Heating a three-generation business

WARREN DILLAWAY | STAR BEACON

Burdick Plumbing and Heating president Duane Burdick (right) and his son, and vice president, Duane Burdick II,

operate the Conneaut company.

‘We also handle radiant heat and geo-thermal heating But we still have a plumbing division. ... Furnaces today are very sophisticated and are operated by

computers ... We can adapt this new technology to older homes.’

Duane Burdick IIVice President, Burdick heating

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, March 1, 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Home Show 2016 — 9

ASHTABULA — The

Ashtabula County Home

Show 2016 will continue

its long-standing rela-

tionship with Quality

Builders.

“We’ve been doing the

Ashtabula County Home

Show since they’ve been

at the Mall,” owner Mike

Faeges said. “We were

one of the irst. We’ve been there well over a

decade.”

Quality Builders, 4139

North Ridge Road E.,

is a fully licensed and

bonded home improve-

ment specialist.

No subcontractors

are used and all work is

done in house. Faeg-

es said Quality Builders

has been in business

since 1978 and has 12

employees.

He said Quality

Builders does trade and

Home shows all over

northern Ohio, north-

western Pennsylvania

and northwestern New

York, but the Ashtabula

County Home Show is

one of his favorites.

“We do shows in

Niles, Erie, Youngstown,

Warren, Austintown and

all over,” he said. “We

cover a 200-mile radius

out of Ashtabula. The

Ashtabula show has

always been a bit of a

gem. You can never tell

what you might ind there.”

Faeges said basement

de-watering systems are

Quality Builders’ major

enterprise.

“We use three differ-

ent basement de-water-

ing systems,” he said.

“We do exterior excava-

tion, interior drain tile

systems and baseboard

systems.”

He said the interior

drain tile systems move

water to an exterior

sump pump or drain

and are the most popu-

lar of the three systems.

“We do about 300 of

those a year,” he said.

“We also do a lot of

complete remodeling

work. We install new

kitchens, bathrooms

and additions.”

Besides installing

basement dewatering

systems and complete

home remodeling and

repair, Quality Builders

does a lot of work for

Veterans Affairs in Erie.

“We do a lot of work

out of the VA in Erie,”

he said. “We work for

veterans in their

private homes, install-

ing open doorways,

ramps and other Amer-

icans with Disabilities

Act (ADA) compliance

jobs.”

BY DAVE DELUCA

[email protected]

Quality builders maintains long relationship with home show

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10 — Home Show 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Home Show visitors

will have the oppor-

tunity to talk with

students and horti-

culture instructor Ken

Noble about A-Tech’s

growing techniques, in-

cluding their aquapon-

ic system using Koi

ish that has produced a bounty of tomatoes

inside the A-Tech

greenhouses.

In addition to garden

vegetables such as

tomatoes, beans, swiss

chard, lettuce, beets

and corn, lowers and foliage plants will be

part of the display.

A-Tech’s horticulture

program curriculum

is designed to prepare

students for careers

in greenhouse man-

agement and plant the

seeds for advanced ed-

ucation in ields such as wildlife biology.

Senior Zoe Shreve

said she will study zo-

ology at Baldwin

Wallace University

next fall, and hopes

to use her knowledge

of plants and horticul-

ture, to

design nutrition plans

for large animals at a

zoo or wildlife

preserve.

BY JAN PERALA

For A-Tech

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her classmates will have their skills and knowledge at

the Ashtabula County Home Show on March 5 and 6

when they showcase a living display of vegetables and

lowering plants in a simulated patio garden fed by a Koi ish pond.

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, March 1, 2016 Star Beacon, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Home Show 2016 — 11

While the Ashtabula

County Home Show

is traditionally seen

as a place for vendors

across the county to

show off their wares

and services, the show

also draws from across

Northeast Ohio.

Kevin Spies of Kitchen

Saver of North Olmsted

said they have been at

the Ashtabula County

Home Show for the

last ive or six years. Spies is familiar with

the Ashtabula Mall and

the county, having had

a location in the mall

for a few years before

leaving in 2012 to focus

on other areas.

Kitchen Saver is

known for one-day

remodels, particularly

focusing on kitchen

cabinets and bath tubs

— which get overlaid

on top of the existing structure.

“With the way the

market is, we look for

consumer shows and

high trafic areas we can put displays out

for various amounts of

time,” he said.

Spies said his busi-

ness serves all of

Northeast Ohio, so he

wouldn’t want to pass

up on a home show op-

portunity. They usually

have a booth at the four

or ive home shows across the region.

“They cater to people

looking to improve their

home. Obviously we tie

right in. We’re not going

to miss a home show,”

he said.

Patti Stephens is

a dealer for Gutter

Helmet, which has an

ofice out of Berea, and has a coverage area that

includes 44 Ohio coun-

ties. Last year was the

irst at the Ashtabula County Home Show for

Gutter Helmet — which

is a system designed

to prevent gutter clogs

and guarantees custom-

ers never have to clean

their gutters again.

“They generate a lot

of business for us,” she

said.

The Gutter Helmet

exhibit this weekend will feature an example of the system with live

running water, she said,

as well as coupons for

20 percent off good for

two weeks.

Spies said home

shows are valuable for

both the exposure to new customers and the

business they generate

from the shows.

“We keep it fairly the

same at each show we’ll

do. We’ll do special

home show promo-

tions,” he said.

Stephens said she and

her employees try to

get to as many events

as possible, such as

home shows, business

expos, county fairs and festivals, etc.

“We’re doing eight

(events) this weekend.

This is our very busy

time of year, and we try

to do all events, try to

be out there anytime

there’s a crowd,” she

said. “We reach out to

the community.”

BY MATT HUTTON

[email protected]

Home show draws vendors from across region

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Denny Mitchelar, left, of Leaf Filter Gutter Protection

in Dublin, Ohio, talks with Rock Dodrill of Harpersield during the 2015 Ashtabula County Home Show.

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