The Alpha Women’s Center is holding a “Dipes, Wipes, and Formula Drive” from now until Easter and Thompson Remodeling is proud to be an official drop-off point.
Bring baby supplies to the Thompson Remodeling office located at 4820 Cascade Road SE in Grand Rapids to make a donation.
While all baby supplies are greatly appreciated, diapers are the primary need. Alpha Women’s Center has 2,500 single parent clients who live below the poverty line and the babies represented will use 35,000+ diapers this year alone. Your help is needed!
For more information on the drive or to learn more about Alpha Women’s Center, visit www.alphawc.org. Read More!
Medical Mile Resource Group is hosting the first of four workships in the 2010 Making a Living in the Life Sciences Series. During this two-hour event, Dr. Jim Mason, Senior Scientific Investigator at the Van Andel Institute and business owner, will share how he started an engineering company and successfully received small business research and development grants to grow his business.
The event will also feature a peek into what one pioneering group, the Medical Mile Resource Group, is doing to position themselves as the “go-to” business resource for established, evolving, or emerging organizations. Join our dedicated action to turn a mile of inspiration into miles of opportunities for businesses like Read More!
Thompson Remodeling is remodeling my bathroom. I just found myself walking into the bathroom and looking over the project. Obviously, I do this all the time for the clients of TRI but it’s different for me as the client. It’s even more fun!
Today, Charlie cut down the legs on the two vanities so that it’s perfectly in line with the mosaic tile back splash. I noticed this little detail as I was doing what I call, “The walk around.” It happens every night when Read More!
Ben Thompson will be presenting on the Builder’s Stage at this year’s West Michigan Home & Garden Show. He will be talking about The Myths and Magic of Green Remodeling and will give a walk through what can be done to existing homes to make them more energy & resource efficient, healthy, comfortable, durable, and ultimately sustainable.
Ben’s presentation will by Friday, March 5 from 2:00 – 3:00. The show runs from March 4 – 7 at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. West Michigan’s premier Home & Garden show features home products and services, remodeling, new construction, and interior design, situated between huge sprawling gardens, landscaping, and retail garden centers. Free seminars daily. Garden and Art Market.
For Read More!
Many times a week a past client or prospective client will call and ask, “Do you do…[insert need of the moment]?” Here is a post to pique your interest and answer that question.
In a sentence: Thompson Remodeling is a design/build residential remodeling firm. We help busy professionals love where they live.
We do 3 categories of projects:
1) Our core competency is completing Design/Build projects. An example would be a kitchen where we move walls. These Read More!
Today I had coffee with Bill Moss, Firm Foundation Home Inspection, LLC (616-260-0779, ffhomeinspection.com). An interesting part of our conversation was about common problems he sees in homes every day. Every era of homes brings with it unique advances as well as problems. Today I just wanted to highlight 1-2 per decade.
1960: 3-wire grounded “Romex” electrical wire came on the scene in 1950 but well into the 1960s some electricians were still Read More!