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Name: Amanda Wilson
Date registered: July 7, 2010

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  1. The Architectural Concepts Door Collection Advantage — May 7, 2025
  2. Three Tips to Navigate Shifting Market Conditions — May 5, 2025
  3. Opening the Door to a Rep Career — April 28, 2025
  4. Sliding Doors: An Enduring Choice — June 24, 2024
  5. Hotel Fire Door Violations: A Concern for Family Safety During Travel Season — June 10, 2024

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  1. Incorrect installation of Door Closers — 11 comments
  2. Guest Post from my BFF (about a Thanksgiving with my family) — 10 comments
  3. Women like it firm! — 9 comments
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Jun 13

Golf for Business?

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Golf has long been considered a great way to do business in a less formal environment.  If used properly, golf can be an opportunity to develop and enhance lasting business relationships. I have been telling everyone that I am learning golf for business.  Although it is not the only reason, it is the main answer …

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Jun 10

Women like it firm!

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There is something that women talk about that men ought to know and I, in good conscience, can no longer keep quiet on the subject. No, it is NOT whose is bigger.  Get your mind out of the gutter.  Actually it is whose is firmer.  Didn’t I just say get your mind out of the …

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Jun 06

A.G. Wilson Learns to Golf!

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My interest in golf started a few years ago when I was enlisted by my husband, who had no TV or internet access at the time, to keep him apprised of a tournament that had gone into sudden death overtime. Before that, I had never considered golf an exciting or interesting sport to watch, or …

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Jun 01

Mesker’s NVS Door Stands Tall against Thermal Bow

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As Temperatures Rise Mesker’s NVS Door can take the heat! As the summer temperatures start to rise, you may be receiving calls concerning lock/latch binding.  This may be due to “Thermal Bow”, a condition which occurs because of the exterior/interior temperature differential. When a hollow metal door is hit by direct sunlight and the inside …

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May 19

Hollow Metal Frames and Bituminous Coating

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Hollow Metal Frames

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I am sure you have run into specifications that call for a “bituminous” coating to be applied in the back of hollow metal frames.  Bituminous coating is a coating containing bitumen, any of various flammable mixtures of hydrocarbons and other substances occurring naturally or obtained by distillation from coal.  The mixture takes on the form …

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May 17

Proper Installation of Hollow Metal Frames

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Hollow Metal Frames

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While researching on the internet I ran across a great resource for guidelines to the Proper Installation of Hollow Metal Frames. Before going into specifics about installing frames this site delves into the most common failures and mistakes made as a result of bad installation. It’s a great site that you may find very useful. …

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May 16

She’s not a little girl anymore

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I took my daughter, Austin with me on a business trip out of state to check in a large Design Hardware order.  It was a chance to spend time together before she embarks on her adult journey. We had not traveled any distance together over the last couple of years as she was a teenager …

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May 09

Pleasant Memories

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I received a phone call from out of the blue that stirred so many good memories of my start in the door and hardware industry. I owe my career to Pat Wright and the Pleasants Contract Hardware team.  I started as a temporary receptionist for the Tampa, Florida branch.  One day while very new to …

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May 02

The Merry Month of May

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May Day, Cinco de Mayo, Kentucky Derby, Memorial Day and I’m sure others I am forgetting.  This month is sure to fly by with so many reasons for parties.  It will fly by super fast for me because I have travels planned for every week this month.  If you are in my territory you are …

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Apr 28

Faces of the Industry – Rick Hatton with Transdor

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While traveling for the first time as a sales rep I had the pleasure of meeting Rick Hatton with Transdor in Tampa.  Immediately upon walking into Rick’s office, rows of autographed sports memorabilia caught my eye.  I was intrigued to know how he had acquired such a collection. Our meeting that day was about doors …

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Apr 26

Design Hardware Projects

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Design Hardware Products are widely accepted in the Division 8 sector of the commercial construction industry. Below, you will find a list of projects where Design Hardware products played a majority in the hardware offering, including locksets, exit devices, electrified hardware, door closers, hinges, flat goods and accessories. Feel free to contact us if you …

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Apr 18

Design Hardware Resources

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Are you aware of all the resources that Design Hardware has to offer.  Here are just a few of the sales tools available for your use. Design Hardware has developed videos to demonstrate installations of their products.  Packaged w/ easy-to-follow instructions & templates, products are easy to install with the efficiency installation crews love. Design …

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