Summer is here and the last thing on your mind is the holiday season. However, now is the best time to start securing your holiday lighting customers and pre-ordering your holiday lighting products. That’s why we’ve connected with our vendor partner, Seasonal Source, for their recommendations on selling to three key customer types now for the holiday season: commercial, municipal, …
Elevating Outdoor Living: Embracing Immersive Audio in Residential Spaces
In today’s fast-paced world, homeowners seek solace and tranquility within their residential spaces, both indoors and outdoors. While the interior design of a home often receives significant attention, the outdoor living areas should not be overlooked. One powerful way to enhance the outdoor experience is through immersive audio systems. Let’s explore the exciting trend of immersive outdoor audio and how …
3 Strategies to Prepare Turf for Drought Stress
Every summer your turf will be exposed to potential drought stress. Some years it could be as minimal as a week, or other years; like last year in 2022, it could be months. After the onset of drought conditions, it is very difficult to revive your lawn without intervention. At Central we are here to help you with proactive strategies …
Ask the Expert: 7 Common Issues and Solutions that Embrace Smart Irrigation Technology
The Irrigation Association has promoted July as Smart Irrigation Month since 2005. This is an effort to highlight water conservation and healthy landscapes through sound irrigation practices that embrace advances in technology. We’ve connected with Dave Shane, Central’s Commercial Irrigation Sales Manager, to learn more. From: Dave This is an update to an article I wrote for Smart Irrigation Month, …
Channel Drains – The What, the Why and the How
When capturing stormwater, you have several options. Area drains are easily placed in low spots to collect excess water and allow it to enter a drainage system. This works well when the grade of the land is easily altered, and a central low spot is either preexisting or easy to create. The question of how to capture stormwater when the …
Mid-Season Check In: 5 Tips to Keep Your Crew Happy & Motivated
With the season in full swing, that can only mean one thing; it is another busy time for your team out there in the field. Doing a mid-season check in is always a good idea in order to identify and address any pain points within the business before they begin to become larger obstacles or prevent the business from thriving. …
Irrigation: Two Strategies for Diversification – Horizontal vs Vertical
The last few years have impacted businesses in many ways. As business owners you have learned how to navigate challenging circumstances including: updated government regulations, recession fears, new communication methods with customers & employees, and obstacles in finding labor. Many of you have learned about the moves that are needed to help your business thrive—regardless of any adversity that may …
Calculating Drainage – The Rational Method
When considering the details of installing a drainage project on a property we often see a common mistake play itself out over and over; the contractor guesses on the particulars. The size of the pipe, capture device and even the storage of storm water often comes down to habit and a “one size fits all” approach. Eric Cummings, Central’s Drainage …
2023 Tick & Mosquito Report: What to Know and What to Do
As we head into the summer months, people in most areas of the country are already battling the return of mosquitoes and ticks in their outdoor spaces. With over 200 different types of mosquitos in the continental U.S. it can be very hard to know which ones are just a nuisance, and which ones could cause you or your pets …
4 Fixture Slump Part Three: Advanced Lighting Techniques
In Part Two of this series “How To Expand Beyond Your Typical Four-Fixture Routine” Central’s Director of Lighting, Glen Nyhuis gave solutions for getting ahead in the lighting industry and detailed some tips on how you can expand your offerings to include second story and niche lighting. In Part Three, Central dives even deeper with Glen into the next level …