Hearthlist Digest #254 - Saturday, January 9, 1999
 
wood-heat.com
  by "John Gulland" <[email protected]>
rates for the State
  by "Climate Control Systems" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: wood-heat.com
From: "John Gulland" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:14:39 -0500 (EST)
 
Hello again,
The wood heat web site has been extensively renovated over the past week or so.
This work was long overdue, but other commitments (like earning a living) have
tended to intervene.
 
The front page is here: http://www.wood-heat.com/index.htm
 
The purpose and tone of the site have not changed -- unabashed, unapologetic,
non-commercial promotion of woodburning.  But there is quite a lot of new
content.
 
For example, you'll find a prompt at the top left corner of the site for the
Great Wood Stove Changeout of Eastern Ontario which was launched today, the
first anniversary of the ice storm that whacked the North East US and Ontario
and Quebec last year.
http://www.wood-heat.com/change1.htm
 
 
Also, the brochure that some of us introduced at Expo last year has finally
been
put on line, although I don't have the web authoring skill to make it look as
dazzling as it does on paper.  You'll find the prompt at the top of the right
column, titled "A manifesto, of sorts".
http://www.wood-heat.com/gdbroch.htm
 
Also, check out the spectacular graphic (I call it eye candy) of the carbon
cycle created by an Ottawa company called Aerographics, the same folks who
created the FeelGood brochure and poster.  Ray Bonar of ICC/RSF had the graphic
done for one of his brochures, and has kindly alowed us to put it on the site.
Click on the "Understanding Nature's Carbon Cycle" button, also at the top
right.
http://www.wood-heat.com/carbon.htm
 
 
Finally, the button called "Feeding the media" on the left column takes you
to a
number of articles produced by the Hearth Products Association of Canada as
part
of a media kit for member dealers.  You are welcome to cut and paste them for
your own promotional efforts, and change the Canadian references if necessary.
http://www.wood-heat.com/feeding.htm
 
That's it.  Hope you find some of it useful.
 
Regards,
John
 
 
 
 

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Subject: rates for the State
From: "Climate Control Systems" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 22:25:14 -0500 (EST)
 
I need some help from California dealers in comparing rates for the State
Fund Workman's Comp insurance.
 
I have a C20 licensee (HVAC) and they are making me use the 5538 class code
(sheetmetal) for my hearth product installers. I am paying up to 18.15 per
$100 of payroll and they say it is going up to $22.00 per $100 of payroll.
 
The rate for a retail employees is only around $4.00. Half of the time when
they are not out installing they are out servicing or working in the shop,
but they will not let me split up the class codes.
 
Any one have any suggestions?
 
Rod Poplarchick
Climate Control Systems
Oakhurst, Ca
 
             Climate Control Systems
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