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Is Your Number Up For First Responders? Address Sign Tips.

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Everyone is aware that time is of the essence when responding to an emergency.   The loss of even a minute or two in providing life saving interventions, be it defibrillation, medication or airway control can be the difference of life or death.   To provide appropriate care, of course, the  Emergency Medical team must first find you or the patient.  During the day that is usually pretty easy since house numbers are normally readily visible on the front of your home and Comfort House has an extensive selection of shapes, sizes and styles of address numbers to fit these needs.  At night, however, due to the design of your home, it may be almost impossible to see the number on the front of your house even when your front light fixture is turned on.  If this is the case at your home, consider moving your numbers to a better location or choose one of the many styles of reflective or lighted house number signs that are available. These are often referred to as 911 address signs. Can y

Shared Driveway House Number Solutions: How To Prevent Your Packages From Being Delivered To The Wrong Home

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Shared driveways often present difficulty in finding your home for package deliveries, visitors, and first responders.  At Comfort House we are frequently called upon for an address sign solution for such situations, and many of these are customized for very specific needs.  For example, we just completed a custom solution for which the client’s packages were always being delivered to the wrong address.  Rather than use one of our more typical shared driveway house number signs like in the illustration shown below, the client had a tree he wished to affix the sign to.                                                   Shown above: Shared Driveway House Sign # CRDA For the tree the client desired the house numbers to be in a vertical orientation with arrows pointing towards the respective address.  We presented two options; one with the arrows beneath the numbers and one with the arrows beside the numbers.  Our recommendation was for the arrow beside the numbers to be certain to get the

Recycling Bin Designed For NYC Regulations

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Tomorrow is the day that NYC recycling enforcement takes effect which means non-compliant businesses will receive fines.  These rules became effective August 1, 2016 but were not enforceable until one year later on August 1, 2017. The rules require all businesses in the city limits to "recycle certain materials and ensure to the best of their ability that those recyclable materials are properly handled by their private carter."  NYC Business Recycling Receptacle Our Made in USA stainless steel recycling bin is an example of a can that complies with NYC new business recycling regulations. It contains three waste streams that are color coded and labeled for easy identification. Paper goes in the green, trash goes in the white and black, and metal, plastic, and glass goes in the blue.

Pool Rules Sign

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Everyone has their own pool rules.  What are yours?   Custom Pool Rules Sign  

New Lightbulbs Do Not Fit My Garage Door Opener

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When I went to change the lightbulb on my electric garage door opener I ran into a surprise and I can't be the only one.  I couldn't find a lightbulb that fit!  The old burnt out 60 watt incandescent lightbulb that I removed could not be replaced by one of the new 60 watt LED equivalents.  Unfortunately I didn't realize this would be a problem and I didn't stockpile any of the old lightbulbs before they became extinct. The LED lightbulbs have an extended portion above the base before the glass portion of the bulb.  This built up portion blocked the lightbulb from going into my fixture opening.  I tried several brands of LED bulbs with the same result.  A CFL bulb has a similar built up portion and also wouldn't fit through my fixture opening. The portion of the bulb above the base prevented this LED lightbulb from fitting my electric garage door opener. To solve this problem, I found Chromalux full spectrum lightbulbs will fit.  They continue to be the

Slate House Number Sign Modified For Lawn Mount

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Our slate address signs are popular for wall mounting but what happens if you want to lawn mount one?  Customer Randy Rettenberger did just that with our P1071 number sign with pine tree design .  First he framed it out, then he put a stake on it.  See these photos of how Randy used the product.

Hanging Address Sign

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Last month we modified our wall mounted oval house sign at customer request to create a hanging 2-sided sign.  The finished result is shown here hanging from a decorative steel bracket that we also supplied.  This hanging sign is now available in 3 sizes.  Details at this link: https://www.comforthouse.com/hanging-oval-sign.html Comfort House P2387 Hanging Address Sign