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Pacific Southwest Maintenance Management Training School

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For the 4th year in a row, Romtec had the honor of attending the Pacific Southwest Maintenance Management School (PSMMS) at Lake Arrowhead, California.  For the 2nd year in a row we were also the sole sponsor of the softball game on Wednesday afternoon.    The school is an intense, week-long workshop teaching management, budgeting, and much more to park and recreation managers from all over the Southwest and Western United States.  Participants come from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, of course California, and other western states sometimes as well.

Each year on Wednesday, they hold a small vendor fair luncheon with a handful of vendors invited to set up displays outside in the Southern California sunshine and amidst the beauty and grandeur that is Lake Arrowhead.   Read more

Change Orders

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Hmm, well I really wanted my metal roofing to be “Caribbean” blue, and the partition color to be Sandstone, oh, and the powder coat color for the doors, frames, window trim, and kick-proof wall vents to be different than the specified black. I don’t like black. What am I supposed to do now, I already ordered the building?

It’s simple…a change order! For some reason, this term can have a negative connotation. In reality a change order is a positive thing.  I should know, my husband and I are in the middle of building a home and have discovered that we didn’t think of everything before we signed our contract.

There are so many things to consider in building a structure that our focus may not be on all the options and how they will impact the appearance and function of our project. We tried to do a mental walk-through when we designed our home but still missed quite a few things.  We have made a number of changes, and it has taken the contractor awhile to help us see that change orders are really a way of getting exactly what we want. We have signed one change order and have a few more on their way. We are happy that the end result will be exactly what we want.

Similarly, Romtec wants our customers to get the exact building, with all the features – even the “Caribbean” blue roofing – that they want. That’s why we offer a straight-forward process for making change orders.

Titans & Lions, Oh My!

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Whatever college sports teams you may support, I’m here to represent… I AM A TITAN, as in Cal State Fullerton Titans. In the 70’s, known as Cal State Who? They no longer suffer from an identity crisis having now won 4 NCAA Baseball Championships. So it’s fitting that a state of the art family sports complex – Lions Field (so named after the benefactor, the Lions Club) was built just about a mile away from the CSUF campus. Read more

Compliance with Changing Accessibility Codes

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Building codes are revised from time to time, including the codes resulting from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Romtec’s Engineering Department works to ensure that all Romtec buildings meet the current applicable codes, including the accessibility code, for the state in which the building will be installed.

Two codes form the basis for accessibility design. Each state uses one of these codes:

ICC/ANSI (International Code Council/American National Standards Institute) A117.1-2003
ADAAG (Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines) Read more

Hundreds of Colors

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There are hundreds of colors for almost any product you can think of. My husband and I are in the beginning stages of building a home. With nearly every aspect of the house there is a color choice to be made: interior and exterior paint, roofing, plumbing fixtures, flooring, counter-tops, appliances and the list goes on. There are even textures that you never give a second thought about, but they add a great deal to the look of a house. Read more

Door Hinges

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Most people take door hinges for granted; we figure that when we purchase a door, the hinges on it will do the job. In most cases that statement is true, however there is a lot more to hinges than what you may think, especially commercial hinges. The variations are many, for example: the type of metal used (steel, brass, stainless steel) the size of the hinge (3”, 3.5”, 4”, etc.) & removability of the hinge pin and other factors. Read more