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TEGG SERVICES
Client Service Builds Relationships
Knights' Electric, Inc. is first and foremost a service company. We are always striving to expand and improve
customer service to our clients. Knights' Electric is continually seeking education and training for our personnel in the most current electrical technology to better serve our
clients. Everything Knights' Electric does professionally is designed to give our clients better service.Knights' Electric's TEGG Service
is another example of customer service. We have trained certified electricians that perform new electrical services for our existing clients, and TEGG Services is also working with new clients. "Our technicians are clean, respectful, well trained in safety and have the ability to perform services that are beneficial to our clients," says
Michael Ragsdale, General Manager of Knights' Electric's TEGG Services. |
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MICHAEL RAGSDALE
Knights' Electric's TEGG Service
General Manager is building new relationships for Knights' Electric
with new TEGG Service clients. |
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"We want to do everything we can to take good care of all of our clients," says Ragsdale, "Our TEGG Service can
help our existing clients that have worked with Knights' Electric and TEGG is also a great introduction to Knights' Electric for those companies that we are working with for he first
time." |
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 Knights' Electric's TEGG Services has recently worked with Rodney Strong Vineyards. Knights' Electric has done
extensive work at Rodney Strong Vineyards for many years. Knights' Electric's TEGG Services also recently engaged in work with Lace House Linen, a company that
Knights' Electric has not previously worked with."We want to grow the relationships we start with TEGG clients," says Ragsdale, "When TEGG
clients need other electrical work we can do design/build, motor controls, commercial/industrial and winery projects. When we get the opportunity to
perform and gain our clients' trust – then we'll be able to form good solid working relationships that last."
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WINERIES
Peay Vineyards
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Peay Winery is located in downtown Cloverdale across from the Furber Shopping Plaza.
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Perhaps Peay Vineyards
is an example of the urban high-density building model that is being purported by planners in Sonoma County, a winery that is located right downtown across the street from a shopping center. But then again it's located in downtown Cloverdale, not a place that suffers from sprawl or high volume traffic like some other cities and towns in the Sonoma County.
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Downtown Cloverdale has a very tranquil pace during the week since many of the people who live in Cloverdale
commute to Santa Rosa and farther south. Peay Vineyards, built by general contractor Cello-Maudru is situated on a knoll directly across the street from Mary's Pizza Shack, which is
located in Furber Shopping Plaza on South Cloverdale Blvd. |
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Knights' Electric installed the
high bay lighting in the tank room.
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Barrel room entrance below winery is lit
with vapor tight fluorescent lighting
and sconces on cement columns.
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Peay Vineyards is already known for their fine wines with coastal vineyards that produce Pinot Noir, Syrah,
Roussanne/Marsanne,
Chardonnay and Viognier. Winemaker Vanessa Wong has gotten rave reviews for Peay Winery's first vintage produced in 2001. |
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Peay Vineyards is a model of efficiency in winemaking design," In a word … it's crisp," says Richard Freitas, Knights' Electric's Project Manager," It's laid out well and they made very good use of their space – an example is the barrel room under
the winery. It's very compact but it's also very organized. It has a very contemporary feel which contrasts with the rustic exterior architecture of the building." |
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Temperature control monitor above one of
ten pump stanchions manufactured and
installed by Knights' Electric.
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Overhead lighting in the lab.
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Knights' Electric installed the winery's electrical underground, power, telephone substructure, and switchgear.
In the barrel room Knights' Electric installed vapor tight overhead fluorescent lighting. The barrel room entryway has stainless steel sconces on both sides for energy efficient
after-hour lighting. The sconces are situated at the tops of cement columns that also house pump stanchions, wash down water, and temperature control monitors.
Knights' manufactured and installed 10 pump stanchions for the winery. |
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Knights' Electric installed power for the crush pit including the press and crusher. Knights' Electric also
installed the automation for the louvers used for the night air-cooling system along with the electrical layout and lighting for the offices, lab and tasting room. |
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Track lighting in office.
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Wine aficionados won't have much trouble finding Peay Vineyards, it's the only winery in downtown Cloverdale. If
by chance they can't find it, they can ask any local and they'll hear the same thing from everyone, "It's right across the street from Mary's Pizza Shack ." |
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RESIDENTIAL
Chandeliers – Personal Statements
of Style
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Living room chandeliers.
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For hundreds of years in Europe chandeliers were symbols of graceful elegance and the main source of light in
castles and mansions. Times have changed and so have chandeliers but chandeliers are still very much alive in the world of custom homes. |
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"To a lot of homeowners chandeliers are works of art. Some people bring them from the previous home they lived
in and some people buy them from antique dealers or specialty lighting stores," says Mike McNeil, Project Manager for Jim Murphy & Associates, builder of exclusive custom homes,
"Chandeliers have become a personal statement of style." |
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Ornate chandelier with candle light fixtures.
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Knights' Electric's
residential department, like Jim & Murphy & Associates, work exclusively on custom homes. Knights' Electric
is currently working on a custom home project with Jim Murphy & Associates. Knights' Electric can work directly with the homeowner and general contractor to create a lighting
design or work with lighting designers, who are usually hired by the homeowner or the general contractor. |
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Master bedroom chandelier.
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"Custom home lighting designs have become very complicated," says McNeil, "Homeowners want to be able to walk
into a room and control lighting with a hand held remote control and open and close the automated blinds." With lighting systems like Lutron HomeWorks, which Knights' Electric often installs in custom homes, these functions are programmed into the lighting system. |
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Chandeliers are an important element in these complicated lighting designs. Some custom homes
have chandeliers in the great room, the dining room, the bedrooms and the entryway. "Chandeliers can be the focal point of a room, but not necessarily for lighting. Usually the actual
lighting comes from other lighting sources," says McNeil. After a homeowner chooses a chandelier for a particular
room in their home the general contractor is faced with the sometimes daunting task of hanging it properly and securely, "Some chandeliers are huge, 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide," say
McNeil, "We need to plan ahead for this because we use a hidden chain that is bolted to a 4"x4" member in the ceiling to attach it."We always handle chandeliers carefully," says
McNeil, "In one case we removed two chandeliers from a mansion that were going to be remounted. We built racks to hold them after we took them down because the weight of the
chandeliers could damage the delicate parts if they were laid on the floor." There's no doubt the homeowner appreciates the extra effort in care. After all, chandeliers are personal
statements of style. |
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