The Bridges Golf Club At Gale Ranch is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in San Ramon, California.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Pleasanton's ZIP codes made the top 500 in Forbes magazine's most expensive areas to live in the United States.
With a median home price of $874,377, Pleasanton's 94566 ZIP code is one of the most expensive places to live in the United States.
Despite a 15 percent decline in property value from a year ago, the ZIP code is No. 286 on Forbe's annual list of priciest codes.
A second ZIP code, 94588, is No. 459, with a median home price of $625,649. Forbes' database, however, shows that this ZIP code saw home prices drop by 27 percent.
The median income in both of these areas is in the low $90,000s.
A third ZIP code, 94568, listed for Pleasanton, according to the U.S. Postal Service, is not on the list.
CNNMoney.com recently placed Pleasanton among the Top 100 best places to live in the nation. It mentioned a family-friendly environment, high-achieving schools, a low crime rate and numerous parks and trails as factors in the city's desirability. Its ZIP codes continue to draw people.
Resident Elisabeth Hallahan said on Patch's Facebook page that schools were one of the reasons she moved to the city.
"People in this town care about education and become involved at a very personal level," she said."I just wish we had moved here sooner."
Other areas on the Forbes list include:
- Blackhawk at No. 93, where the median home price is $1.6 million and the median family income $142,459;
- Three of Danville's ZIP codes. Its 94588 area ranked 59, with a median home value of $1,922,523 and median income of $92,644. The town's 94506 area placed 201: Home value, $1,072,360, income, $142,459. The third, 94526, which includes downtown and older parts of Danville, came in at 346, with a median home value of $776,209 and income of $109,771.
- Dublin isn't on the list. The city of 43,000 just south of San Ramon has fewer mansions than its wealthier Tri-Valley neighbors. Dublin home values always have trailed San Ramon's and Pleasanton's, although with a median home price of $480,000 (according to Zillow.com), it's still more costly than many East Bay cities, in part because of its proximity to nearby Forbes-ranked communities.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
BR111 Hardwood Flooring
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On the jobsite installing new BR111 hardwood flooring 
Refinish You Own Floors? No!
Though there are many home improvement projects that the average homeowner can tackle, refinishing your wood floors should be removed from the list in most cases. Putting life back into hardwood flooring can challenge the skill and experience of most DIYers.
Not convinced? Here top five reasons you shouldn’t attempt refinishing floors yourself:
1. Clueless about wood flooring. If your floors are less than 20 years old, chances are good that they are engineered wood. This means that they were made like plywood, with a series of substraits topped by a beauty layer that may be too thin to sand.
2. Struggling for time. It takes time to prepare and refinish a floor. It’s tempting to think that the drying of finishes will take up most of the time. However, there’s also moving furniture, cleaning floors, repairing flooring flaws, restaining, and putting down mutliple layers of clear topcoats.
3. Dangerous with a sander. You’ll probably feel in control right up to the moment that the sander digs in and gouges your flooring. Even if you use an well-worn sander belt to rein in the machine’s strength, it takes just a split second to ruin a job.
4. Mystified about stains. In a perfect world, getting the stain color you want requires making samples on small pieces of flooring material. But your house didn’t come with flooring samples, so all you can do is try out stain colors on a closet floor. Does this seem professional? Will the results be?
5. Confused by oil-based vs. water-based finishes. One smells more than the other—so what more do you need to know? But there may be a problem with the consistency of the finish. What do you use to dilute it if it seems too thick? Oh, yes, and what’s too thick?
There are more reasons, too. They add up to one obvious conclusion: Hire a professional to refinish those floors. This is a job that is definitely tougher than it seems.
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Pleasanton & Walnut Creek,CA
Flooring to Last a Lifetime
When you consider the amount of time your tactile senses come into contact with various surfaces of your home, your feet meet the floor more often than all others. Not only is flooring of tremendous visual importance, it also provides a surface for your feet, one which must be cleaned regularly and one which must be above all, durable. This is why there are so many options to choose from: from sustainable cork and reclaimed wood, to fly ash concrete and traditional brick and tile. Each has its benefits.
While my traditional favorite, wide plank hardwood flooring comes in various forms (sustainable, laminate or traditional and expensive), durable and sustainable materials are also available including cork and fly ash concrete. Let us not forget the tiles, more traditional brick and even flagstone for a timeless, and hardworking floor.
1. Flagstone Flooring
A bit more non-traditional and less uniform than other flooring options, a natural flagstone floor brings the outside in with a durable and textured finish that you can be sure won't be too slippery. Make sure your foundation is up to the task of supporting the extra weight.
2. Reclaimed Hardwood Flooring
Green and beautiful, no two reclaimed hardwood floors are alike. Vintage details including stress cracks, original saw marks, nail holes or solid knots give the flooring a very unique character. Often salvaged from historic barns, old buildings or other flooring specimens, the history, detail and authenticity is unmatched.
3. Cork Flooring
One of the greenest flooring options available (besides making do with what you've already got), cork is a sustainable product that will last a very long time. In fact, the Library of Congress boasts cork floors. Available in a plethora of finishes and designs from thin cut veneers to granule cork-board type finishes, cork maintains better insulating qualities for both heat and sound, and provides a cushioning that's easier on your joints.
4. Fly Ash Concrete
Fly ash, a waste product derived from coal fueled electric power plants, when combined with concrete makes a stronger, more durable and more resistant concrete product. The end product also serves to sequester the waste and keep it out of landfills--a win-win for coal power plants and the concrete benefactor.
5. Brick Flooring
Another flooring product not used in many modern day home, it was popular in the 70's and 80's. The thermal conductivity and slow heat dispersion properties of brick make it good for passive applications and is easy to repair.
6. A Wide-plank Engineered Hardwood by Armstrong
5" thick boards are engineered for a more uniform and easy to install product. Guaranteed for 25 years, you'll probably grow tired of it before its end of life but it won't last forever.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Carpet can help you breathe easier.
Carpet and Allergens - Answers to Common Misconceptions
Allergens
Some biopollutants, such as animals, dander, house dust mites, and mold, have been linked to allergies and asthma, and many of these substances are commonly found in the average home. It is important to understand that the mere presence of allergens does not in itself pose a hazard. The allergen must be inhaled for exposure to occur, and in order for inhalation to occur, the allergen must be airborne.
Carpet acts as a trap for allergens
Carpet is capable of holding significant quantities of soil, dust, etc., without appearing very dirty. It has been demonstrated that carpet is quite efficient at keeping allergen and other small particles such as pollen out of the air. In fact, data from a Swedish government study indicates that when use of carpet declined, the number of people reporting allergy problems increased.
Regular vacuuming with a vacuum using a high-efficiency filter and periodic cleaning using the hot-water extraction cleaning ("steam cleaning") removes the majority of allergen from carpet as well as significantly reducing mite populations.
Research has clearly shown that there is no correlation between allergen contained in carpet and allergen in the air in the carpeted room.
Research on carpet
In 2002, two schools in North Carolina were the subject of a study conducted by Research Triangle Institue (RTI) and University of North Carolina (UNC) investigators. One school had mostly resilient tile floors, while the other was 70-75% carpeted. The study found that airborne contaminants, possible sources of allergens, were higher over the tiled floors than over carpet.
Also in 2002, Professional Testing Laboratory studied the effect of foot traffic on air quality, using commercial carpet and commercial vinyl flooring. Following 16 minutes of foot traffic over both surfaces, the particulate concentration over the vinyl floor was found to be four times that of carpet.
Other studies, including one using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), have reinforced these findings and concluded that carpets actually reduce exposure to particulates and potential adverse health effects.
In a recent paper, "Carpet, Asthma and Allergies - Myth or Realty," Dr. Mitchell Sauerhoff, Ph.D., DABT, examined numerous scientific studies and other research contradicting some long-held beliefs on carpet's alleged negative characteristics.
Sauerhoff concluded, "...based on the available science, carpet does not cause asthma or allergies and does not increase the incidence or severity of asthma or allergies symptoms. In fact, with respect to asthma and allergies, multiple studies have reported fewer allergy and asthma symptoms associated with carpet."
WHAT IS YOUR STAIN?
The Carpet Stain Center system houses almost 1,000 stains with cleaning instructions. The application is unique to the flooring industry, offering real-time solutons "as life happens." From leaking "sippy cups" full of orange juice, to monstrous disasters like food fights, you wll be equipped to handle life's messes with one iPhone application.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Understanding Breast Cancer Guide
Please visit my sister in law's page who has been fighting since she was 29 years old.
Her story http://www.sendmargotlove.com/
The Understanding Breast Cancer Guide provides an overview of the Understanding Breast Cancer section to give you quick access to areas of interest.
http://ww5.komen.org/understandingbreastcancerguide.html
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Top 10 Reasons Small Businesses Fail
One of the least understood aspects of entrepreneurship is why small businesses fail, and there's a simple reason for the confusion: Most of the evidence comes from the entrepreneurs themselves.
I have had a close-up view of numerous business failures -- including a few start-ups of my own. And from my observation, the reasons for failure cited by the owners are frequently off-point, which kind of makes sense when you think about it. If the owners really knew what they were doing wrong, they might have been able to fix the problem. Often, it's simply a matter of denial or of not knowing what you don't know.
In many cases, the customers -- or, I should say, ex-customers -- have a better understanding than the owners of what wasn't working. The usual suspects that the owners tend to blame are the bank, the government, or the idiot partner. Rarely does the owner's finger point at the owner. Of course, there are cases where something out of the owner's control has gone terribly wrong, but I have found those instances to be in the minority. What follows -- based on my own experiences and observations -- are my top 10 reasons small businesses fail. The list is not pretty, it is not simple, and it does not contain any of those usual suspects (although they might come in at Nos. 11, 12 and 13).
Read More....... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Top-10-Reasons-Small-nytimes-3522435825.html?x=0
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Diablo Flooring,Inc would like to DONATE a few area rugs to schools.
Diablo Flooring,Inc would like to DONATE a few area rugs to schools. Please share with us why we should donate one to your school! Please tell a friend. Happy New Year!
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