Custom Van and Truck Conversions by Gary Miller and Personalized Vans & Trucks. Shop located in San Jose, California

We only do conversions – so think Personalized when you think custom vans and trucks.

Owner Gary Miller is known with his satisfied customers for his trademark personalized service.

Maybe you would like some custom van upholstery? How about some running boards for your sprinter van? Or any other type of custom van interiors? Think of us when you think of custom van and truck conversions.

We only use the best accessories for our custom work.

We are a proud dealer for Flexsteel and LLEBROC van seats and other vehicle seating as well as Fiberine fiberglass tops.

Our fully-equipped custom van shop is centrally located near the International Airport in San Jose, CA. The shop is at the intersection of Highways 101 (Bay shore Freeway) and 880 (Nimitz freeway).

About Personalized Vans & Trucks

You say pleasure is your business?

How about a camping van with TV and VCR, sofa bed, A/C D/C refrigeration, dual battery system, a sunroof and few extra windows to enjoy the view?

A windsurfing van with raised fiberglass top may be more to your liking.

With a sleeping area… and your surfboard, of course!

A full line of accessories is available.

We custom build door panels, headliners and walls, and install carpet kits and running boards.

How about comfortable, easy-to-sit-in seats for your vehicle? We use Flexsteel pick-up, RV and van seats in our customization.

And we can’t forget the alarm to protect your gear or the stereo to keep you company, now, can we?

We also build and customize the not-so- out-of-the-ordinary trucks and vans. Also among our specialty:

Utility vans built for commercial work, loaded with metal shelving with partitions separating driver and passenger from the cargo area,

Sub flooring, rubber mats, and ladder racks to

Contractor’s trucks with storage boxes, metal racks and bed liners.

The Shop

Our Capabilities

With twenty-five years’ experience in building and personalizing vans and trucks, we have the capability to 

build everything!

From a mobile office, to a totally self- supporting dog grooming van complete with bathing facilities, to catering vans and much much more.

Services

Camper Vans

Custom Vans

Dog Transport and Grooming Vehicles

Kite boarding Vehicles

Mobile Service and Mobile Shop Trucks

Office Vehicles

Sport Vehicles

Sprinter Vans

Surfing Vehicles

We custom build vans and trucks

1.       Sprinter Vans

2.      Office Vehicles

3.      Mobile Service and Mobile Shop Trucks

4.      Surfing Vans

5.      Camper Vans

6.      Sport Vehicles

7.      Custom Vans

8.      Dog Transport and Grooming Vehicles

9.      You name it!

Accessories

Our Full Line of Accessories

TV

VCR

stereo

sofa bed

A/C D/C refrigeration

dual battery system

a sunroof

extra windows

bathing facilities

raised fiberglass top

sleeping area

alarm system

metal shelving

sub flooring

rubber mats

ladder racks

storage boxes

metal racks

bed liners

door panels

headliners and walls

carpet kits

running boards

comfortable Flexsteel seats

driver and cargo area partition

To know more about the services offered by Personalized Vans & Trucks please visit http://www.personalizedvans.com/ or call 408-436 8244 .

Retail Real Estate Consultant, Expansion Planning, Medical Retail Planning - Jeff Green Partners

Jeff Green Partners is a leading consultant in Retail Real Estate Feasibility, Retail Expansion Planning, Medical Retail Planning, Location Analysis and Commercial Land Use.

We provide market analysis and strategic planning and consulting services including:

● Shopping Center Feasibility

● Distressed Center Repositioning

● Retail Real Estate Planning and Investing

● Retail Market Research and Strategies

● Retail Expansion Planning

● Retail Strategies for Municipalities

● Medical Retail Planning

● Location Analysis

● Commercial Land Use

● Urban Redevelopment

● Retail Master Plans

A LEADER IN RETAIL REAL ESTATE FEASIBILITY

Jeff Green Partners was founded in May of 2004 in response to a growing demand for a new level of expert consulting services in the retail real estate marketplace. Led by President and CEO Jeff Green, Jeff Green Partners provides a full spectrum of analytical and interpretive services for property owners and developers.
Beyond feasibility studies and demographic profiles, the firm provides the kind of in-depth full spectrum analysis that generates critical context, penetrating insight and valuable strategic direction to many of the country’s leading retailers, commercial and retail real estate developers, and health care facilities. From project-specific guidance to long-term national expansion strategies, a wide range of national and regional retailers, property owners/managers/developers and medical practitioners look to Jeff Green Partners for the firm’s expertise and unparalleled knowledge of key retail markets nationwide to find out what is happening, what is going to happen, and how it will impact their businesses.

To succeed in today’s changing market, developers, retailers and medical practitioners all require more than just a consultant; they need a fresh perspective. They need a professional partner with the experience to make sound judgments, the vision to understand the broader perspective, and the keen insights needed to help them navigate the evolving complexities of a rapidly changing industry. For Jeff Green Partners, serving clients means providing them with the tools they need to achieve success in today’s competitive environment.

By providing in-depth analyses and comprehensive strategic support, Jeff Green Partners offers the vision; insight and adaptive innovations that helps them accomplish this goal.

A RANGE OF SERVICES

Jeff Green Partners provides comprehensive market analysis and strategic planning services, tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Where appropriate, we emphasize close coordination and continuity with existing market research. We also have assisted many companies in establishing or expanding their research departments.

Our Services Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Shopping Center Research
• Location Analysis
• Consumer Profiling
• Tenant Mix Evaluation
• Distressed Center Repositioning and Redevelopment
• Assessing Center Viability Long-Term
• Marketing
• Expansion (or Contraction) Opportunities.

Retail Expansion Planning

• Site Feasibility Studies
• Customer Profiling
• Definition and Analysis of Trade Area
• Target Customer Profiling (Demographic and Psychographic)
• Competitive Review
• Determination of Expenditure Potential
• Sales Forecasting
• Cannibalization (Sister Store Impact) Analysis
• Prioritization of Expansion Opportunities
• Overall Strategies for New Market Entry or Existing Market Expansion
• New Store Format Development
• Image Analysis

• Urban Redevelopment

• Location Analysis
• Retail Master Plans for Downtowns
• Highest and Best Use Analysis
• Supportable Space Analysis
• Retail Void Analysis
• Tenant Mix Recommendations
• Adaptive Reuse
• Mixed Use Developments

• Retail Real Estate Planning and Investing

• Underwriting Retail and Real Estate Credits for Acquisitions Financing in the Public and Private Market
• Investment Strategies
• Asset and Securities Underwriting
• Liquidation of Assets
• Valuations
• Repositioning Retailers’ and Developers’ assets

• Litigation Support

• Market Analysis
• Market Research
• Retail Store Leasing
• Retail Marketing

• Medical Retail Planning

• Site Feasibility Studies
• Definition and Analysis of Trade Area
• Target Customer/Patient Profiling (Demographic and Psychographic)
• Competitive Review
• Sales Forecasting
• Image Analysis
• Overall Strategies for New Market Entry or Existing Market Expansion

• Hotel Feasibility

• Competitive Analysis
• Supportable Format
• Size and Amenity Recommendations
• Revenue Projections

• Office Space Research

• Analysis of Existing Market
• Existing and Historical Absorption
• Supportable Space Recommendations
• Analysis of Target Tenants
• Revenue Projections

• Single and Multi-Family Residential Feasibility

• Assessment of Existing Housing Stock
• Measurement of Supply and Turnover
• Analysis of Historical Absorption
• Analysis of the Demand for New Housing
• Supportable Residential Type (single-family, condominiums and/or apartments)
• Forecast Sales and Recommend Price Range, Amenities, etc.
• Project Absorption

• Training and Technical Support

Jeff Green Bio

Jeff Green is the owner and proprietor of Jeff Green Partners. Jeff has extensive consulting experience on a wide range of research projects ranging from feasibility studies for development projects across the US and internationally to sales projections for specific retailers. Mr. Green is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences sponsored by industry organizations such as the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the Food Marketing Institute and Urban Land Institute (ULI).

Mr. Green was President of Market Insite Group which specialized in developing web based tools to assist retailers and property owners in site and tenant selection. In addition, Mr. Green headed the professional services division for Market Insite Group providing feasibility studies for property owners and national expansion plans and sales forecasts for a wide range of national and regional retailers.

Mr. Green was also President and Owner of The Green Group which merged with Market Insite Group in 2001. The Green Group had a 35 year history of providing consulting services to retail, restaurant and entertainment tenants.

Mr. Green is a graduate of Michigan State University and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Food Marketing Institute, American Marketing Association, ULI, International Downtown Association and the Value Retail Association.

For more information visit http://www.jeffgreenpartners.com/ or call 602.795.8351 for appointment.  

CERT Advanced Training: October 13th - Refresher & Exercise - FREE‏

Are you CERT CERTified?

CERT is the Community Emergency Response Team. It consists of volunteers who assist the Fire Department and Emergency Response professionals in case of any major disasters. We encourage all our readers to take a CERT class and BE PREPARED!

If you are a CERT member in Marin County then this announcement is for you:

 

One of the most consistent comments that we receive after CERT Basic Training is that students would like more hands on exercises, especially in first aid and search & rescue. 

We are pleased to invite you to our third Marin County CERT Advanced Training for 2012, which will be held Saturday, October 13th, in   San Rafael from 9 am-3 pm. Our training will be held at the old McPhail School off San Pedro Rd., a great location for a simulated disaster!

The exercise will host fire department personnel, emergency management staff and CERT volunteers, who will conduct three refresher mini-sessions in the morning and two disaster simulations in the afternoon. Participants will be able to practice and review basic skills and work as teams during the simulations.

Please check out a brief description of the day, which we've included below. Advance registration is requested so we have enough staff for our exercises. We are limiting participation to 50 so sign up today!  There is a place for everyone in CERT and in this exercise.

 

Oct. 13, 2012 

9:00 am      Check-in and welcome

9:30-10:30   Disaster Medical Operations

10:30-10:40  Break

10:40-11:25  Search & Rescue

11:30- 11:55 CERT Organization (how to work as teams)

12:00-12:30  Lunch  Bring Your Own

12:50- 3:00  Simulations 1 & 2

2:45-3:00    debriefing & thank you's; check-out

Let us know if you'd like to volunteer to help on the day of the exercise.

 

We hope to see you on October 13th!

 

For more information or to register: 

415-485-3409

coordinator@marincountycert.org

www.marincountycert.org

Cherie Miller & Associates, Joshua Tree and 29 Palms Realty

Cherie Miller & Associates, Joshua Tree Realty and 29 Palms Realty offers services for your realty needs, whether you’re a buyer seller or investor. The agents come from all over and have different real estate specialties with the same passion and appreciation on the beauty of the desert communities they all call “home”.

WHY Cherie Miller

“Trust.” That’s the number one advantage in choosing Cherie Miller & Associates, Joshua Tree Realty and 29 Palms Realty to help you find the perfect home, neighborhood and price. They are a family-owned, local, full-service real estate office. Cherie Miller & Associates have diverse backgrounds and specialties

It is with great satisfaction for Cherie Miller to hand buyers the keys to their new home at closing and sees how their faces light up. They always look forward to helping each family to find and settle to their new desert home and community.  And willingly help sell your home from the time you’re ready to move as well.

The home buying process

Cherie Miller & Associates will assist you in making sure everything goes smoothly, from the start to moving-in.

Here’s a step-by-step explanation of how the buying process works.

1. Price. The staff will talk to you about price, to understand how much you are qualified for, what you want to pay for a monthly payment and help you with the pre-approval process.

2. Next the staff will talk about house size and location. Expect to be asked a lot of questions to help pinpoint the ideal house and location to fit your needs and lifestyle. For instance, do you have school-age children? Animals? If so, how many? This can be a determining factor. Where do you work? Are you retired? After determining all of these factors, they’ll filter them for areas and properties that fit your family needs and wants.

3. Showings. Once you to clearly identify your house needs and location, the next step is to get ready to view 2 to 10 homes until you find the right fit for you.

4. Offer. After you’ve picked the house you want, the staff will help you do the necessary paperwork and deliver your offer to the seller’s agent. Please note. You’ll usually be asked to write a check for a minimum of $500 or up to 3% of the house price. The check is to show you are a serious buyer and will be held as an earnest money deposit.

5. Escrow. When the seller accepts your offer, escrow will be established, serving as a neutral third party for all of the documents. The papers for the lender must be given to your lender as soon as possible and be thorough and accurate to keep from delaying the escrow. It’ll make sure that every “t” is crossed, every “i” is dotted and all necessary papers are signed properly.

6. Loan documents. The lender will prepare the loan documents. The lender will check closely to make sure they reflect the customer’s agreed-upon terms before they sign them and a notary will be available to notarize the deed of trust. At this point the client will provide the down payment, reflecting the difference from the deposit check, in the form of a cashier’s check or wire transfer.

7. Recording deed. Once the deed has been recorded with the county recorder’s office, the keys are handed over. Welcome home!

LISTING WITH CHERIE MILLER  

“Sold.”

That’s the word everyone want to hear from the real estate agent. It’s a satisfying reward to hang that sign in the yard. It shows that the agent was successful in helping the clients move on to the next stage of their lives with one less thing to worry about.

Cherie Miller & Associates will accomplish it with strategic local and Internet advertising, by promoting their proprietary Summer Catalog. Experienced real estate pros will help you navigate the paperwork and now – easy search tools on our website to help you find properties quickly.

Cherie Miller & Associates, Joshua Tree Realty and 29 Palms Realty are family-owned, local, full-service real estate offices. They are protecting the high reputation of the company name and proud of what they do. Their agents have diverse backgrounds and specialties in Real Estate in the Morongo Basin.

The home selling process

Once you’ve decided to place your home on the market, here are the steps involved in selling it.

1. Choosing your agent. These are tricky times, but that’s all the more reason to choose your agent wisely. We don’t view our clients as numbers.

2. Price. Analyzing comparable properties on the market and recently sold, look at upgrades and special benefits to come up with a price that positions your home attractively in your area.

3. Sign and lock box. Once you’ve signed a listing contract with Cherie Miller & Associates, the sign goes up, the lock box goes on and the marketing of your home begins.

4. Neatness sells. Now for the hard part: keeping your home “model” clean and tidy. But it’s worth it. All it takes is that one buyer, and we’ll help find the right one.

5. Offer. When a buyer makes an offer, you may need to negotiate a fair sales amount, presented through the agents. Once you approve the offer or counter-offer, you need to sign it.

6. Inspection. Your home will be inspected at this point; to be sure there are no unidentified problems. Be sure all utilities are on.

7. Escrow. All paperwork is handled through escrow, serving as a neutral third party. Papers need to be signed and notarized, including the grant deed.

8. Closing. At closing, the buyer will bring loan funds or cash, which is placed in escrow. At this point, be sure to turn off the utilities!

9. Deed recording. Escrow will arrange the recording of your home deed.

Disbursement of funds. Upon confirmation of the close of escrow, the buyer is given all keys and remotes. You can pick up your check or have the funds wired to your bank. Have a happy move

For your Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, Pioneertown, Joshua Tree and 29 Palms real estate needs, trust Cherie Miller & Associates at telephone number (760) 369-1800.

Gallinas Watershed Council in 2011

Efforts by the Gallinas Watershed Council to promote watershed planning for the zip code 94903 area (North San Rafael) finally paid off as Marin County launched a serious effort to begin this process in 2011.

Other watersheds in Marin have had their cities such as Ross, Fairfax, Corte Madera, Larkspur and Novato stepping up as major partners.

We hope San Rafael will do the same. Upstream impervious development and creek channelization leads to downstream flooding; a whole watershed approach will create systemic improvements so that those at the end of the line are not shouldering the burden alone.

GWC highlights from 2011:

Jan: Participated at the Bay Area Environmental Education Resource Fair

Feb: Held our 1st community watershed workshop at Northgate Mall
Gave tours of the creek with local politicians and journalists to draw
attention to the significant value of the wetlands
Attended a LOT of meetings around the bay dealing with Sea Level Rise,
Climate Change and Watershed planning

May: Began developing our watershed plan vision
Became an official creek group within North Bay Watershed Association
Promoted Marin County’s Watershed plan to local agencies
Made watershed presentations with Liz Lewis to Santa Margarita,
Contempo Marin and Mont Marin Homeowners’ Associations

Sept: Held our first Watershed Education Bike Tour and BBQ
Presented Gallinas Creek info at the Santa Venetia Labor Day Picnic

Nov: Presented watershed appropriate planning information at the SMART Civic Station Area Design Committee community meeting. With Diana Connolly developed the Gallinas Creek Watershed Survey www.surveymonkey.com/s/ gallinascreekwatershed. Submitted a letter and spoke out to SR Planning Commission addressing the serious flaws in the FEIR for the airport soccer development GWC will continue to monitor proposed developments and speak out against inappropriate development.

We will be watching as the Phase 2 Stormwater Pollution regulations come into effect and help support city and county efforts to keep our waterways free of trash and toxic chemicals.

We will also keep reminding everyone of the effects of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise on our area and promote ways that work with, not
against, nature.

As always we can use your help, personally and financially, as we work to protect our local natural environment. Join our email list at www.gallinaswatershed.org to stay in touch with important issues or join us for a kayak tour, bike ride or headlands hike that celebrate this beautiful landscape we are so fortunate to live in. We usually meet on the third Monday of the month and would love to have you join us!

To volunteer for Gallinas Watershed Council call  415 578 2580.

Rogers Remodel Promotes Green Projects!

When every last detail of bath or kitchen remodel is wrapped up, Northern California plumber and building contractor Jamie Rogers hopes his clients are happy with the way the room looks and works. Most of the time, the project also makes the home a whole lot greener.

Rogers brings a passion for both green plumbing and green building to every project. In construction for 18 years and plumbing for 15, he started Rogers Remodel, Inc. in 2003 in Novato in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied civil engineering and worked as a journeyman carpenter in Washington State before moving to California.

Rogers Remodel primarily serves affluent Marin and Sonoma counties, San Francisco and the East Bay. The full-service plumber handles residential and light commercial work, from basic plumbing to full-on, ripped-down-to-the-studs renovations. The company does repairs, inspections, sewer and drain work, water audits, gas line and water heater installation, and bath and kitchen installation and remodeling.

Rogers is not shy about admitting he's a bit of an evangelist on the subject of conservation, saying that he's frankly touched when his efforts to educate homeowners and business clients hit home. Sometimes he's preaching to the choir. Customers do come to him with an eye to reducing immediate water and energy use and slicing utility costs for the long run.

He estimates that 75 percent of his remodels are green and 80- to 90 percent of his plumbing projects have a green component. Rogers has been able to reduce clients' water bills as much as 47 percent.

The company has benefited from the remodeling surge in recent years, Rogers said, as owners of older homes take on updating a single bath or knocking down walls to create expansive master suites or create double bathrooms. He cited projects where a total "remodel" budget has surpassed the value of the original space and his part of the job was significant. Most of his larger remodeling jobs have been in Sonoma and Marin Counties, where clients have had the funds to renovate.

Rogers is on a mission to convince more clients that a green remodel is within their budget. "If there's one thing consumers need to know, it's that green projects and products don't have to be any more expensive than traditional options. "They can get the look they want with products that do the job while saving water and energy," Rogers said.

As a plumber/building contractor, Rogers is hands-on during the design and specification stages of many projects, offering his input on sourcing green products.

He uses many of the same sources repeatedly because field experience has demonstrated what products best fit project needs, while being on constant lookout for new products and ways to improve on installation.

For example, when possible, he configures piping in shorter runs to get water where it needs to go more quickly and efficiently.

One extensive remodeling project was the 4,500 square foot Courtney residence in Marin County's slightly posh Mill Valley. "The initial plan was to add a guest suite to the '70s era home, and push out to give the son a larger room and private bath," Rogers said.

The Mill Valley project's "in-law" suite included a kitchen, bath and laundry room. Rogers did the plumbing on those areas as well as remodeling three existing baths, five baths in all. The job stretched over eight months, with possibly the biggest challenge having to haul cast iron up about 90 steps, he said.

The plumbing work included interior re-piping in PEX and copper and exterior in Aquatherm, a very durable green pipe that uses heat to fuse pipes together, and installation of a whole-house circulation system with Metlund pumps. Hot water was provided via two A.O. Smith hybrids, a large one of the main house and a smaller one for the guest house. The advantage of the hybrids, Rogers explained was that they heat up water quickly like a tankless but also store water, and that an upgrade of the gas line wasn't required.

In the baths, Rogers put in Toto high efficiency 1.28 gpf toilets, lower flow Grohe valves and showerheads and low-flow Hansgrohe faucets. While they were at it, the homeowners added PV solar. Rogers' pride in the project is obvious when he talks about how cool the baths look with features selected from Restoration Hardware that give the baths a retro, yet modern feel.

For another large green project, the Kramer residence in Novato, the company remodeled a full kitchen and two baths. Rogers and his full-time crew of three not only did the plumbing but framing, electrical, cabinetry and lighting as well.

"What I liked about this kitchen is the use of recycled materials and natural light," Rogers said. The countertops are fabricated of recycled marble and granite and the backsplash of recycled glass. Natural light is brought in by a skylight and the space boasts energy-saving under-cabinet LED lighting. A non-demand circulation system feeds hot water to remodeled kitchen and two bathrooms.

An example of going green without sacrificing the "wow factor" is a bath from another Rogers Remodel project in Novato which included a full kitchen and two baths.

Green materials were used when possible. The master bath was plumbed with low-flow faucets and showerheads in the large shower and soaking tub with waterfall faucet, and the builder used recycled materials for the floor, and added a skylight and LED lighting. "In the master bath, we retained the tank heater. On a lot of projects we'll upgrade the tank or go tankless, depending on what they need what their peak flow is."

The large shower guest bath had both a rain-type showerhead and a handheld shower. The installer used a diverter so that only one low-flow showerhead or the other could be used at one time.

Green features in the kitchen included a recirculation pump, aerators on faucet, a low water use dishwasher, skylights, and LED under-cabinet lights. On projects like this, Rogers said, it's important to insulate everything well.

Rogers' efforts on the green plumbing front earned him the GreenPlumber of Year award or the Western states from GreenPlumbers USA and IAPMO. He was cited for "going above and beyond by collaborating with community partners to install water catchment systems in two local schools. Jamie has calculated that he has saved 2.4 million gallons of water this year [2011] in the Bay Area and has also promoted water conservation by serving on local job-building boards and green employment councils."

"We teamed up with local water districts for toilet change outs and did a lot of water audits the past year for clients in commercial buildings and we were able to calculate how much water was saved with the change outs and the other projects that I did," Rogers explained.

On the school projects, "we teamed up with RainwaterHog, a rainwater harvesting company out of Australia, to install rainwater capture systems in a couple of different schools," Rogers said. "We met them (RainwaterHog) at a trade show and signed on as distributor and installer of their products in the Bay Area."

Through GreenPlumbers, Rogers and the manufacturer put in seven rainwater tanks and a hand pump at McKinley Elementary School in San Francisco for the students to use to water their plants. They installed three tanks at Hall Middle School in Larkspur which were rigged to flush a toilet. "We donated most of our services for those first two projects. It's a great hands-on demonstration about conservation for the kids. We want to do more like them."

Rogers plans to keeping delivering the green message, whether with individual homeowners or business clients, working with local water districts in programs such as water audits and toilet change outs and through GreenPlumbers to help educate other plumbing and building professionals.

Even though he started on the construction side, Rogers said he loves plumbing. And, there's no greater compliment to plumber or builder than having a client say, "I love the work you did and I want you for my next project."

Check out the article written about Rogers Remodel in Reeves Journal, the oldest publication in the plumbing industry.

Arbor Works Tree Service, Arborists and Tree care experts serving San Francisco and the North Bay.

Arbor Works Tree Services specializes in the latest arboricultural techniques, expertise, knowledge, and practices, when caring for your trees.

The arborists and Tree care experts at Arbor Works Tree Service serve San Francisco and the North Bay.

Arbor Works Tree Services specializes in the latest arboricultural techniques, expertise, knowledge, and practices, when caring for your trees.

With over 33 years of experience, Arbor Works is dedicated to the proper inspection, preservation, and when necessary, the safe removal of your trees.

They know how trees are important to the clients, and that beautifully maintained specimens evoke a sense of serenity and sanctuary to the immediate surroundings of the home and property. Trees can influence the microclimate by providing shade, wind shelter, and the oxygen we breathe.

Trees are delicate bio-systems with specific horticultural needs that can be disrupted through the stresses that the urban environment may impose upon them.

At Arbor Works Tree Service primary concern is the safety of their client.  Proper abatement of dangerous or unwanted trees will be performed with the utmost concern for safety in a quality professional manner in accordance to American National Standards Institute protocol.

Arbor Works Tree Services Includes:

•          Tree Pruning

•          Cabling

•          Tree Removal

•          Consulting

•          Treatments

Cabling

Every tree situation is different, and species vary in wood hardness and decay resistance. Different hardware is tailored for each specific application. Some hardwood trees can be braced with lag bolts, some softer or decayed woods require through bolt installation.

Cable bracing should always be a last resort option. However, where safety and scaffold limb preservation are priorities for our clients, cabling can, in many cases aid in bracing the tree when pruning options alone are inadequate. Cabling must always be done in conjunction with pruning to reduce weight first.

Arbor Works Tree Service uses standard extra high strength cable with tree grip connectors and thimbles to guard the “eye”. Cable size varies with the estimated load stresses that we determine.

At Arborworks we gauge the height of the tree, the wood girth of the branch, limb length, and mechanical dynamics to properly engineer the positioning of the cable bracing system.

All cable bracing systems require periodic follow up maintenance inspections.

Consulting

Consulting at Arbor Works Tree Service is done with an analytical approach to diagnosing tough tree problems.

A good diagnostician knows how to observe the subtle differences in a tree exhibiting abnormal appearance based upon familiarity with what is normal vigor for that species. This comes from years of observing trees in their environment both from the ground and up in the canopy.

Practical Arboricultural consulting starts with sound knowledge of the different characteristics that different tree species have, and their individual horticultural needs.

Arbor Works look at the site and its soil, climate, horticultural practices, construction impact, pests, diseases, plant competition and all the interactions of these influential factors upon your tree.

They recommend the appropriate and approved treatments to correct plant maladies.

Tree hazard evaluation is an important part of the job.

Knowledge of dangerous decay organisms and the conditions they thrive in is critical to the diagnostician.

Spotting internal defects in trees is a skill they possessed based upon arboricultural education and experience that comes with years of observing actual tree failures in the field and dissecting the wood during the course of removing them.

Arbor Works use diagnostic tools such as the resist graph decay detection device to assure accuracy in diagnosing internal defects.

Treatments

Arbor Works Tree Service recommends the proper treatments and care that your tree needs.

To correct tree problems they may recommend implementing improvements such as:

irrigation,

soil fertility,

pest control,

pruning

Whatever the situation, proper tree care starts with knowing what the problem is and the corrective solution.

Tree Pruning

Fine ornamental tree pruning is an art that has taken Craig Peterson many years to perfect.

Every tree species is different in its tolerance to pruning, and every individual tree is different in its landscape setting.

Craig and his team at Arbor Works Tree Service take into account all the environmental factors, health, vigor, and horticultural conditions when setting the parameters of tree surgery.

Tree Removal

Tree removal at Arbor Works Tree Service is always performed in the safest manner possible with your home, security, and property in mind.

They are fully equipped to handle most tree situations with the best tools and occasionally the assistance of a crane (please see video footage).

With over 33 years of experience, they have become experts in the field. From sophisticated rigging techniques, and fast efficient machinery, to fine cleanup, they get the job done!

From their workers, your property, the property others and the public at large are fully insured with workers compensation, public liability, and property damage liability to give you the peace of mind you deserve as an 

Arbor Works Tree Service costumer.

Arbor Works Tree Service serves Marin County, Sonoma County, San Francisco. San Rafael, Novato, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Larkspur,  Tiburon, Ross, Kentfield, San Anselmo, Fairfax, Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland.

About Arbor Works

Arbor Works Tree Service is a sole propriety owned and operated by Craig Peterson, an ISA Certified Arborist #1169 WC.

Craig and his team of tree experts run Arbor Works Tree Service, a small company based in San Rafael CA. Since 1989 they have been performing tree care services in Marin County, San Francisco, and Alameda County.

As a certified arborist they are fully insured with tree service liability insurance, and workmans’ compensation.

Arbor Works Tree Service has a perfect safety record with State Fund Workman’s’ Compensation Insurance Company.

Craig Peterson knows Marin County as he has been living in Marin since the seventies.

For inquiry about Tree Service, Ornamental Tree Specialist and Tree Pruning and other tree service, contact Arbor Works at Tel 415-457-7119