Where to Find Employees Now | Spring Stock-Up Specials
Greetings!
Looking for great employees to grow your team?
Who isn't!
The market for hardworking and reliable employees seems to get tighter every day.
We asked leading contractors to share their strategies for finding the "best of the best" to build their crews.
Here's their advice:
Take the mystery out of 2-wire decoder systems. They're more complex, but they bring many benefits to you and your customer.
Attend our FREE training class and breakfast taught by John Miller, an expert from Rain Bird.
Learn:
- Why it's called two-wire
- Why it's an easy-to-expand system with smart benefits
- How troubleshooting a two-wire path involves different steps
When and Where: Tuesday, March 26 from 8am-Noon at our store
Please call MPR to RSVP 314-426-4838 or email to [email protected]
This course will focus on the latest in LED technology that benefits the landscape professional. We will cover homeowner sales, design, installation and existing system upgrades.
We will give you ideas to help you better engage the buyer, and show you how to design with new technology, and complete the installation.
You'll discover all of the benefits of Kichler's VLO fixtures.
Whether you're new to lighting or an experienced pro, you should attend. Your whole team is welcome.
When: April 2nd from 8:00 until noon. Bonus: Every company who attends receives a $500 voucher toward purchase of VLO fixtures
Please call MPR to RSVP 314-426-4838 or email to [email protected]
Stock-up on backflows for spring projects with our Bakers Dozen Special.
Buy 12 Wilkins Model 350 DC or 375 RP (3/4" or 1" size), get one FREE. (free unit of equal or lesser value)
Offer available only at MPR and valid only through March 31, 2019. Each Bakers Dozen purchased will receive 1 blow-out / flush fitting.
Zurn Wilkins is offering backflow testers the opportunity to purchase a backflow test kit at a very low promotional price and receive a free Quick Test fitting set! Details.
NDS provides contractors with the most informative tools in the drainage industry
NDS has created a video series that has been designed to take the contractor through three crucial steps to fix drainage problems:
In an upcoming six-part series, the NDS resident civil engineer, Dr. Drainage, walks you through how to calculate runoff, store runoff, size your catch basin and determine what drain pipe to use. Click here to see the full series on YouTube.
In addition to these videos, NDS has created a series of online calculators that make it easy for contractors to plug in information from their jobsite and it helps you calculate drainage for your dry well, French drain, and drain pipe.
For more information please visit the NDS YouTube channel for extensive installation videos and helpful product overviews.
Shave hours off lawn sprinkler installations with high-performance saddle tees.
With the Blazing Saddle, it takes just 10 seconds to tap polyethylene pipe - without any tools or cumbersome fasteners. Just clamp the saddle onto the pipe and screw in the spike. That's it.
The Blazing Saddle cuts out clamping, coring, and cutting - and it saves digging. Reduce the costs of labor, training, tools. There's no easier or more efficient way to tap pipe to install a sprinkler head. You can forget all the cumbersome aspects of traditional saddles or insert fittings and get the job done faster.
Click to learn more about the King Innovation line of Saddles
The primary purpose of finding the source of failure is to prevent continuing or future problems.
As an analyst, it is important to enter any examination with an open mind, not biased with a preconceived conclusion.
As commonly repeated on the popular TV crime investigation shows, "see where the evidence leads"!
Discover how professionals analyze failures and learn how to prevent problems.
Click here for the full article from LASCO Fittings.
Looking for great employees to grow your team?
Who isn't!
The market for hardworking and reliable employees seems to get tighter every day. We asked leading contractors to share their strategies for finding the "best of the best" to build their crews.
Here's their advice:
- Pay existing employees a "bounty" for finding new team members. The bounty is paid after the newcomer's first 60 days.
- Have an active careers page on your company website where applicants can apply.
- Establish rapport with local vocational school instructors and scout students with a great work ethic.
- Maintain a presence on Indeed and other digital sites. Take advantage of association job boards too. Always be visible even when you're not hiring.
- Write better help-wanted ads. Free guidebook here.
Join Us for an Informative Class on 2-Wire Decoder Systems
Take the mystery out of 2-wire decoder systems. They're more complex, but they bring many benefits to you and your customer. Attend our FREE training class and breakfast taught by John Miller, an expert from Rain Bird.
Learn:
- Why it's called two-wire
- Why it's an easy-to-expand system with smart benefits
- How troubleshooting a two-wire path involves different steps
When and Where: Tuesday, March 26 from 8am-Noon at our store
Please call MPR to RSVP 314-426-4838 or email to [email protected]
Register for Our Landscape Lighting Class
This course will focus on the latest in LED technology that benefits the landscape professional. We will cover homeowner sales, design, installation and existing system upgrades. We will give you ideas to help you better engage the buyer, and show you how to design with new technology, and complete the installation.
You'll discover all of the benefits of Kichler's VLO fixtures.
Whether you're new to lighting or an experienced pro, you should attend. Your whole team is welcome.
When: April 2nd from 8:00 until noon. Bonus: Every company who attends receives a $500 voucher toward purchase of VLO fixtures
Please call MPR to RSVP 314-426-4838 or email to [email protected]
Wilkins Backflows: Buy 12, Get 1 FREE
Stock-up on backflows for spring projects with our Bakers Dozen Special.
Buy 12 Wilkins Model 350 DC or 375 RP (3/4" or 1" size), get one FREE. (free unit of equal or lesser value)
Offer available only at MPR and valid only through March 31, 2019. Each Bakers Dozen purchased will receive 1 blow-out / flush fitting.
Special Promotion for Zurn Wilkins Backflow Testers!
Zurn Wilkins is offering backflow testers the opportunity to purchase a backflow test kit at a very low promotional price and receive a free Quick Test fitting set! Details.Buy a TG-5 Test Kit for $998.00 and get a FREE QT-SET or purchase a QT-SET for $108.00. Offer valid through April 30, 2019.
Act before March 31, 2019 and get 2 sets (6 pieces) of the NEW high-grade polymer test fittings (RK14-QTP) FREENDS Presents Video Series on How to Calculate Drainage
NDS provides contractors with the most informative tools in the drainage industry NDS has created a video series that has been designed to take the contractor through three crucial steps to fix drainage problems:
- Identify current or potential drainage problems
- Calculate how much runoff water you need to plan for
- How to identify and properly size a solution that will work for you.
In an upcoming six-part series, the NDS resident civil engineer, Dr. Drainage, walks you through how to calculate runoff, store runoff, size your catch basin and determine what drain pipe to use. Click here to see the full series on YouTube.
In addition to these videos, NDS has created a series of online calculators that make it easy for contractors to plug in information from their jobsite and it helps you calculate drainage for your dry well, French drain, and drain pipe.
For more information please visit the NDS YouTube channel for extensive installation videos and helpful product overviews.
Embrace a Faster Way to Install
The smart way to add productivity to every job siteWith the Blazing Saddle, it takes just 10 seconds to tap polyethylene pipe - without any tools or cumbersome fasteners. Just clamp the saddle onto the pipe and screw in the spike. That's it.
The Blazing Saddle cuts out clamping, coring, and cutting - and it saves digging. Reduce the costs of labor, training, tools. There's no easier or more efficient way to tap pipe to install a sprinkler head. You can forget all the cumbersome aspects of traditional saddles or insert fittings and get the job done faster.
Click to learn more about the King Innovation line of Saddles
Analyzing the Source of Failures in Plastic Pipe Systems
The primary purpose of finding the source of failure is to prevent continuing or future problems.As an analyst, it is important to enter any examination with an open mind, not biased with a preconceived conclusion.
As commonly repeated on the popular TV crime investigation shows, "see where the evidence leads"!
Discover how professionals analyze failures and learn how to prevent problems.
Click here for the full article from LASCO Fittings.