Gas Grill Propane Tank Explodes on a Deck, Resulting Fire Burns Everything

Once again tragedy strikes when attempting to cook with a grill on a deck...

From South Washington County Bulletin- "Two Woodbury senior citizens lost their home and they're lucky to be alive after the propane tank on their grill exploded on the deck last Wednesday. 
Robert Hamer and his wife, Katherine, escaped via the front door of their home in the 5700 block of Fawn Trail Circle, spending the night at a neighbor's house after a shocking accident on their backyard deck turned the $340,000 home into an inferno."

Read the rest by clicking here-http://www.swcbulletin.com/news/crime-and-courts/3754029-update-massive-fire-couple-loses-house-cars-lifetime-valued-items

Grills and decks don't mix, Cook away from your house!

May Issue of Professional Deck Builder is Out!

Deck builders, architects and specifiers should all be reading Professional Deck Builder on a monthly basis. This month's articles again lend reason to do so, with varied content discussing using steel and concrete poured into pans to make hurricane resistant decks in storm zones and new colors to Duradek's line of decking systems. I recommend you subscribe and get your copy every month.

May Issue is Here! 

"Extinguished" Cigar in Potting Soil Ignites, Causing ONE MILLION in Damage!

Yeah, you read that right...the estimate is One Million dollars plus contents when an unidentified man placed a cigar into a potted plant to put it out. Most potting soil contains a lot of organic matter that can ignite, and this cigar ignited the soil in the pot, bursting into flame and causing enormous damage.

SIOUX FALLS, SD - 

Sioux Falls Fire Rescue is ruling an apartment building fire accidental, and officials don't plan on filing charges.  A cigar sparked the flames, which led to more about $1 million in fire damage. The fire started on a deck of the third floor of a building at Penbrooke Place. Insurance adjusters are still trying to determine whether the owners can save the building.

READ THE REST HERE   http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/cigar-potting-soil-spark-1-million-fire/?id=180756

Decking Contractors/Manufacturer's-Mobile Friendly is the New Buzz Word for Google Search

Attention contractors and manufacturer's! The new buzz word in search isn't keywords or SEO (although SEO is still important) or meta tags anymore. 

Your website is probably where many of your clients come from. A few of you are probably still throwing money into a stagnant Yellow Pages ad, but that advertising medium is rapidly going the way of the dinosaur...let us just tell you to stop wasting money there and realize that the new buzz word for web search is now "Mobile Friendly". 

That smart phone/phablet in your hand, which is probably what you are reading this post on, is driving Google and the other search engines to start ranking websites on how friendly they are to use on mobile devices. Yep, the desktop and laptop is still important, but with the dramatic increase in smart phone use, "mobile friendly" has taken over as the dominate factor for ranking websites during searches. 

Test your website using Googles website mobile friendly testing site

So get going and find out is your website is "mobile friendly" and learn more at the link below. 

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/?hl=en-US&utm_source=MFT&utm_medium=incoming-link&utm_campaign=MFT

Another Day, Another Grill on a Deck Ignites the House

Sadly we report another home burned because of a grill on a deck...



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A woman was trying to move a barbecue away from the home when it tipped over and flared, causing fire to spread to the deck and the back of the house, said Peter Andrews, a division commander with Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency.

No one was inside the home at the time.

“It was quite a spectacular fire when our crews got there,” Andrews said Thursday night. “The house was fully involved from the deck right up to the roofline because the siding and the Styrofoam underneath it are quite flammable.

North-end Halifax home damaged in fire | The Chronicle Herald

Cigarette Carelessly Discarded in Potted Plant Burns Roof Deck

High levels of peat moss in bagged soil can ignite. Dispose of cigarettes in an ashtray.

Toronto Canada-a carelessly discarded cigarette thrown into a potted plant smoldered and ignited the peat moss soil mixture. The roof deck the potted plant was on ignited and burned as well. Watch the video by clicking the link below.