Woods Helping Families in the Metro Area

This Friday at the Gateway Center, Woods Basement Systems will be participating in the 2nd Annual First Day: Celebrating Family show. This event is put on by the City of Collinsville; focused on raising morale in the Collinsville community, with local businesses offering their support. Last year, many businesses gave out school supplies to an estimated 2,500 attendees!

Woods will be holding their annual coloring contest - with the winner being awarded four tickets to see the Gateway Grizzlies play ball! At Woods' booth, there will be a table where kids can sit and color, along with comfy seats for their parents to relax. Also, product and company information will be available for parents to check out while their kiddos enjoy coloring our basement safety coloring page!

So if you are going to be in the Collinsville area this Friday around 4pm - 8pm, stop by our booth (booth #69) at the Gateway Center! And don't worry if you can't stay long, you can grab a coloring sheet for your little ones and just mail it back to us!

Hope to see you there!

Signing out,
Otto

Woods Gets Schooled

Everyday you learn something new!

Last Wednesday through Friday, Employee's from Woods Basement Systems attended the Foundation Supportworks Marketing Training in Omaha, Nebraska. Attending training is one thing that Wood's is very passionate about. We want to make sure we are always on top of our game, because you as a customer, deserve nothing but the best!

Along with Woods, 40+ Basement Systems dealers attended this training; with one dealer coming all the way from Canada! Pictured to the right, is Woods' own Bruce Sprenger, licensed AE on staff, standing next to a load test apparatus. Bruce heads up most of our commercial foundation repair and waterproofing jobs in the St. Louis Metro Area.

At this training, dealers learned about the latest ICC specifications on our foundation repair products, along with many other pertinent topics. Woods looks forward to visiting homeowners' in the area and sharing their knowledge about foundation repair with them. There's never a problem too large or too small for us to tackle!

Signing out,
Otto

Woods Employee's Love The Turtl

One of our newer products, The Turl™, has all the of our employee's falling in love!

The Turtl™ is designed to provide a clean, convenient way for our customers to access their below-grade crawl spaces. Usually, crawl space access wells are ugly and deteriorated. They let rain, leaves and debris into the crawl spaces of our customers, making for a nasty area. Also, old, leaky crawl space access systems can damage homes and provide safety hazards!

We recently brought a Turtl™ Crawl Space Access System into our office and all of our employee's were drawn to the clean, attractive look and functionality of the Turtl™. They were so drawn to it, we couldn't keep them out of it!

The Turtl™ is made from rigid plastic, so it will not corrode or rot. It is durable, built to last and looks great outside!

The Turtl™ is:
- Clean and Dry
- Strong and Durable
- Secure and Lockable
- Air and Water Tight
...and most of all, Looks Great!

At Woods Basement Systems, we love The Turtl™ and think that you will too! If you're interested in finding out more about The Turtl™ Crawl Space Access System, we would love for you to visit our website to learn more! Just click here!

Signing out,
Otto

Woods is Everywhere!

Good Afternoon Everyone!
As of late, Woods Basement Systems has been all over the St. Louis Metro-Area meeting with friends, customers

and the general community. We were really excited when HGTV came to town to film Rebuilding Together - St. Louis's remodel. Woods was glad to be asked to offer some of their time and services to help remodel The Windsor Transitional House, which is shelter for homeless veterans. Pictured left to right is Dave Thompson from Woods Basement Systems, Doug McCullauley from Mosby Building Arts, Kevin Howard from Rebuilding Together - St. Louis, and Alex Mosby from Mosby Building Arts.

Woods, along with NARI (the National Association of the Remodeling Industry) helped take this home from barely livable to a comfortable, safe home for the local veterans.

On the subject of NARI, Woods employees also participated in the Annual NARI Golf Outing at Greenbriar Golf Course in Kirkwood. The golf outing is NARI's largest yearly fund raiser, so we were glad to spend time with friends and help the NARI organization at the same time! (Our team actually won first place!)

Also in the busy month of June, Woods participated in the First Annual Collinsville Relay For Life! If you haven't heard of Relay For Life, it is an event that helps raise money for the American Cancer Society with funds going towards cancer research, education and the needs of current cancer patients (such as rides to doctors appointments, wigs, etc.).

This cause is something very near and dear to us at Woods because many of us have either been effected directly or have a family member that has been effected by Cancer.

Woods held many events to help raise money for this cause, such as a trivia night, a paintball tournament, a golf tournament and even an 80s movie night!

At the relay, the weather was a scorching 101 degrees at 7pm when it began! Around 9pm, it started pouring raining and we had to move all of the campsites into the gym at Son Life Church in Collinsville. It was such a fun, unpredictable experience, that we cannot wait to do it again next year!

Coming up on the calendar, we are all looking forward to raising money and participating at the upcoming 2009 Alzheimer's Memory Walk in September at SIU-Edwardsville's Campus. Hopefully we'll have some nice weather!

Signing out,
Otto