Newsletter:  March 2007 a At Vintage Greens the entire irrigation system is set up with outdoor sprinkler systems for each home and the pipes are purple to designate them as non-potable.   LeDuc & Dexter Inc. is finishing up their tenant improvement work at the Windsor Palms Shopping Center in Windsor “We thought it was a good idea to get involved in the project to promote our company”, says Art Dexter, LeDuc & Dexter’s Vice President & COO

Vintage Greens Nears Completion

Residential

LeDuc & Dexter's residential department is working towards completion of Vintage Greens (click image to enlarge)

One of Windsor’s largest subdivisions is near completion.  Vintage Greens, with a total of 440 homes, and water saving irrigation system supported by the Town of Windsor, should be completed by the end of the summer.  Most of the homes are occupied or sold.

Four bedroom model at Vintage Greens (click image to enlarge)

The homes are described as wine country homes with many options and upgrades available.  LeDuc & Dexter installed Kohler products for the homes, which range in size from approximately 1,500 square feet to 2,500 square feet.  The larger homes have four bedrooms and three bathrooms.

LeDuc & Dexter Inc. have plumbed over 90% of the project, which began construction nearly five years ago.  LeDuc & Dexter will have completed all of the water, sewer and gas lines, kitchen and bathroom sinks, tubs, showers, toilets and hot water heater installations for the entire project.

LeDuc & Dexter is installing Kohler products at Vintage Greens (click image to enlarge)

The Town of Windsor has installed an irrigation system that uses treated non-potable water for irrigation of lawns and gardens for homes in Vintage Greens.  The entire irrigation system is set up with outdoor sprinkler systems for each home and the pipes are purple to designate them as non-potable.
LeDuc & Dexter's Rudy Pulido cutting a bathroom drain (click image to enlarge)		LeDuc & Dexter's Arturo Hererra protecting wastewater pipe from later drywall installation (click image to enlarge)
Vintage Greens also has a four-acre park for its community, complete with picnic tables and barbecues, a bocce ball court, a basketball court and play area with play structures for children.  In addition to that there is a soccer park with five playing fields.  All of these areas are irrigated with the non-potable water from the Windsor Water Treatment Department. The Town of Windsor supplies the water free of charge.  Homeowners’ participation in the program is optional.
		Non-potable water shut off valve is purple like the pipes (click image to enlarge)

T.I. at Windsor Palms Shopping Center

Commercial

Windsor Palm Shopping Center expansion project with entrance to Castaneda's Market Place and expansion wing to left (click image to enlarge)

LeDuc & Dexter Inc. is finishing up their tenant improvement work at the Windsor Palms Shopping Center in Windsor.  LeDuc & Dexter began their work on this project with the shell that consisted of an El Toro’s Market, which is now named Castaneda’s Market Place, and a two-story building wing that is now divided for tenants.

Wall mural inside entrance to Castaneda's Market Place LeDuc & Dexter installed a 1500 gallon grease interceptor for the market (click image to enlarge)

LeDuc & Dexter’s tenant improvement work includes a sanitary waste system and 1,500 gallon grease interceptor that were installed for the market.  Other underground work includes splitting the original water and sanitary lines into separate lines to each tenant.

Upstairs LeDuc & Dexter installed two restrooms and a drinking fountain for Anytime Fitness, which is now open for business.  Downstairs LeDuc & Dexter installed the rough-in plumbing at Rosie’s Nails for sinks and the wastewater system.  LeDuc & Dexter will be doing the complete T.I. for Hunt Medical, an optometrist office, with sinks and drains in the examination rooms plus restrooms.

LeDuc & Dexter installed bathrooms and a drinking fountain at Anytime Fitness (click image to enlarge)

LeDuc & Dexter installed sinks and wastewater system for Rosie's Nail Salon (click image to enlarge)

Koch Construction Company is the general contractor for the project.  Koch Construction has actually built the entire shopping center starting about ten years ago including all the additions that have made the center home to over 30 tenants.  LeDuc & Dexter has also worked at the Windsor Palms Shopping Center over that ten year period of expansion.

“Koch Construction is a great builder’, says Rich Hoaglund, Commercial Project Manager for LeDuc & Dexter.  “We’ve been working with them for twenty years.  They have a good staff and good project managers; they’re easy to work with.  They’ve created a niche of high-end, medium sized commercial and residential projects plus boutique wineries.”
		LeDuc & Dexter will be completing the entire T.I. for Hunt Medical (click image to enlarge)

LeDuc & Dexter Get Role on Rapid Remodel TV

The Company

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LeDuc & Dexter, Inc. have been working with Rapid Remodel TV, a company that executes accelerated design/build remodeling projects for homeowners in the Bay Area and then televises the building process on local television.

Rapid Remodel TV is working on this home at 819 Sunnyslope Road in Petaluma (click image to enlarge)

		Petaluma that was originally a one-story school house and will soon be a two-story home.  LeDuc & Dexter have plumbed most of the new first floor of the home, which was built under the jacked-up original structure.
The original building, the little red school house, is now the second floor of the house (click image to enlarge)

Alan Tatomer, the producer of the TV shows and the project manager on site in Petaluma, was impressed with Leduc & Dexter’s Mike Musante’s skills.  “Mike was really good.  He’s a very knowledgeable plumber, he was fast and he was good in front of the camera.”   “We thought it was a good idea to get involved in the project to promote our company”, says Art Dexter, LeDuc & Dexter’s Vice President & COO, “and some of our suppliers donated materials for the job.”

LeDuc & Dexter has completed the plumbing on the new bottom floor including this wastewater piping (click image to enlarge)

Sponsor's of the project are well represented with tents and banners next to the house (click image to enlarge)

Rapid Remodel TV aired their first 14 episodes last year featuring remodeled homes in the East Bay.  They are negotiating with TV 50 in Santa Rosa to air the next installment that will feature remodeled homes in the North Bay when all the projects are completed and filmed.   Homeowners pay for the jobs performed by Rapid Remodel TV and receive some discounts along the way.  The show is also an opportunity for builders and craftsman to showcase their talents.  Aside from LeDuc & Dexter there are over 30 other companies working on the Petaluma project.