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Published: 12 March 2013

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Categories: Locker Solutions

Employee lockers are a wonderful way to make certain employees have a secure storage area, but in some professions, they’re more than just a good way to make sure your employees have a bit of personal space. For firefighters and police officers, lockers are a must-have. Before you choose just any set of lockers to outfit a new station or facility, though, there are several things you must keep in mind.

Durability. Keep in mind what will be stored in these lockers. These aren’t junior high textbooks. In most cases, you’re going to see heavy, expensive gear in every single locker, so make sure you’re getting a product that will tackle that gear without a problem.
Materials. Along with durability, you want to make certain that the locker you choose is made from materials that will ensure a long life. Go with something that includes heavy-duty construction. Steel is usually a good choice. A powder coat finish may also help. The last thing you want to do is replace lockers like these on a regular basis.
Use. Lockers for firefighting gear are likely going to be very different than security lockers for weapons. Don’t think for a moment that there’s a one-size-fits-all solution for police and firefighters. You may even need to go as far as a custom solution depending on the type of locker you need.

First responders need real storage solutions that help them do their jobs effectively and the first off-the-shelf locker you find simply won’t handle that level of reality. Before you outfit a new station or facility, carefully consider your locker options to make certain these heroes get the storage space their jobs demand.

Published: 5 March 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

Whether you’re talking about a local community center, a high school, or one of the best universities in the nation, gymnasium seating can be nothing short of difficult to purchase. The seating is easily one of the most important products you’ll purchase for your gym, and getting it right the first time is key to the success of your facility.

Telescoping Options

In many cases, you’ll want telescoping seating included somewhere in the plan. While you may end up with half of your facility dedicated to fixed seating options, adding some telescoping seating options to your gym can really be a help for events that are simply bigger than you’d initially planned. What’s more, though, is that since they don’t have to be present all of the time, you’ll have the flexibility you need when it comes to floor space.

There are really two main choices when it comes to telescoping seating. You can either go with bleacher style seating or platform style seats, and the differences here depend a bit upon your goals. While bleacher style seats are sure to help you pack the crowd in for every event, platform seats are likely the more comfortable of the two options. In some cases, you may want to go with a mix of both seating styles, but decisions like those have to fit into your layout and the aims of the facility. You may also want to look into flex seating options that could allow you to carefully configure seating arrangements that will better suit the needs of the various sports your gym plans to host.

As you shop for telescoping seating options, make certain you look for a solid combination of durability and reliability. It could also be important that you look into ADA compliant seating to help make some guests more comfortable and help to make sure your facility meets the code requirements.

Customization
No matter what seating option you end up with, don’t forget that with many companies, you can customize your choices to help make it unique to your gym. In many cases, you can add wireless remotes and even audio alerts to help make your seating safer and easier to operate. You can also typically add school lettering or logos that help to make your seating choices look unique.

With gymnasium seating, you don’t have to go with the first solution you find. These days, technology appears even here, and no matter what your goals, the right company can help you meet them with perfect seating.

Published: 27 February 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

With a heavy heart we announce the passing of Anita “Nita” Frazier. Taken too soon in life Nita will be remembered by all those she leaves behind. Her twenty-three years of service and dedication to Carroll Seating Company was unwavering. Detail orientated and the ability to direct, Anita wore many hats, Personal Assistant to Pat Carroll Jr, Office Manager, friend, confidant, but above all part of the Carroll family. Her undeniable love for all that crossed her path will resonate in the hearts of those she touched forever.

We are fortunate and immensely grateful to of had our time with Anita may she rest in peace knowing she was loved by so many!

Published: 26 February 2013

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

With a name like Ace, you can be sure almost everyone knows what you’re talking about. Created in 1924, the branding strategy this company has employed has made it a household name for decades. We were nothing short of honored when Ace came to us to work on their corporate headquarters. The goal was to create a new look for their lobby, a common area, and an essential conference room. The results were pretty impressive, even to us.

Serious Design Needs, Serious Results
With a company as large as Ace, aesthetics needed to be at the forefront of everything we did, particularly given that much of our work would be on display on a daily basis to a variety of different visitors. Nothing we did within this project could be business as usual. You simply don’t get a job like the Ace Hardware headquarters without already being the best of the best.

To meet their needs, we used a mix of custom millwork applications, employing both acrylics and poly resin panels for a finished look that you just can’t get with other materials. The goal here was that high end architectural finish that really demonstrated our skills as a millwork provider, and we certainly met that goal.

Promoting the brand was also important to Ace in all of the areas where we worked, so we added new signs to help boost the company’s name. Getting that logo above any real traffic area was a must, so we used 3FORM, high design image captures with acrylic feature panels to help push the brand out into the open while still staying with the current atmosphere.

The chance to work with Ace was unique, and we’re proud to have been part of the project. Our millwork skills are second to none, and a quick visit to the Ace lobby will show you nothing less than perfection.

Published: 19 February 2013

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Categories: Casework & Millwork

What is casework?
The casework services that Carroll Seating provides can either provide an initial design for the interior of any institution or remodel any institution, no matter how big or small, and no matter whether it’s a school or business. Our designers will consult with you and come to a design amenable to both parties for both aesthetic and economic concerns. Our professionals will then install your design verbatim as planned.

The Carroll Seating Advantage
Our employees will remodel either a single room in an institution or multitudes of rooms in an institution. Unlike many other organizations who barely involve the consumer in the planning process, you will be completely involved in planning your remodel or initial interior design.

Unlike many companies who skimp on seemingly peripheral materials in designs, such as small pieces of wood and plastic, all of our material is manufactured with utmost craftsmanship. You will not need to worry about frivolous expenditures due to small components in our designs breaking intermittently; we completely stand behind all the materials we use, no matter how big or small.

How Else We Help
While we use premium materials in order to make our designs as flawless as possible, we also have friendly and well-informed personnel to assist you with making your design look exactly as you envision it.

Our professionals will assist in every step, ensuring you are not lost at any point along the way to your design coming to life. They will determine the most ergonomically sound design of a combination of our premium furnishing in order to give you the best product for the best price.

For Many Situations
Our professionals can assist you in designs for an array of different physical environments. More specifically, we can assist you with casework in any of the following categories (and possibly more – please ask): laboratory, healthcare, and educational. Additionally, we offer high quality architectural wood working services.

In short, our company can assist you in any size furnishing for almost any situation. Unlike your experience would be with most other companies, we offer you the best service and products in the industry. Don’t be left behind by another corporation; try our personal service and attain ultimate satisfaction, whether you need just one room redesigned, or an entire floor redesigned!

Published: 15 February 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

Look Modern
Whether you manage a cafeteria, help run a school, or even run a business with many employees, “keeping up with the Jones” is a very big deal. While completely renovating a building to make the architecture modern would most likely be far too uneconomical to pursue, there is indeed a different way for you to make your facility shine to both visitors and those who attend it or work at it: a change in seating and furniture.

This is certainly a way to keep with the times without breaking the bank, and the furniture inherently can make a bold statement about the type of atmosphere you wish for your building to have.

Get a Cozy Feel
The last thing most visitors to a new building want is to be forced to sit in old, hard chairs. This feels far more institutionalized than any recreational furniture should be. Fortunately, we have a solution for you!

Don’t keep your old furniture and allow your patrons to suffer! Rather, have one of our consultants come take a look. We can recommend any of a variety of our professional and endorsed seating to make your atmosphere be as appealing and accommodating as possible.

Save Money
Seating arrangements in many buildings are not nearly as economical as they could be. If you find that you are often running out of seating for your clientele, chances are you feel that you’re in a crunch. While you need for your customers to sit comfortably, you most likely would not like to take out a loan to completely remodel.

Luckily, we can also make custom seating arrangements for you. These can be very ergonomically sound chairs that are arranged in a more compacted fashion, but feel far more comfortable to your patrons than your old seating.

In this fashion, you save money while making your patrons feel far more comfortable. Rather than needing to remodel, you can simply buy new furniture that spruces up the atmosphere, makes it more physically comfortable, and saves you money! In the end, the situation is a win-win, no matter what your perspective is!

Published: 12 February 2013

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Categories: Seating Solutions

A huge problem in today’s seating market is a lack of respect for the customer. For too long, we have all seen advertising promising the “lowest liquidation prices” of the year. However, these companies often do not stand behind their products. This leads to no accountability for furniture or seating quality. Likewise, these companies continue to woo naïve customers into buying their products, but they are gone when the consumer needs support.

Luckily, Carroll Seating is different from most seating companies. We stand behind our furniture one-hundred percent. As a matter of fact, we service our own seating, offer parts for our furniture, and even do repairs on our own furniture! This way, if your seating ever breaks or is subjected to excess force, you will know you have a technician specially trained in repairing your furniture!

If your purchase anything from Carroll Seating and there is an issue, you can either call or email a factory certified technician with any issues you may have. The number is even toll-free in order to ensure that you do not pay for the basic support every consumer deserves.

If your problem cannot be resolved with an email exchange or even a series of phone calls, Carroll Seating is one of the few companies that provides its own complete repair service with factory certified technicians.

Rather than being forced to simply purchase new furniture due to either the inexistence of technicians for your furniture or the sheer expense of the technician’s fees, Carroll Seating provides very reasonably priced fixes that can greatly improve the longevity of our furniture in your institution.

While we can provide the minor and major repair services for your furniture as discussed above, we also can provide service for any state or county mandated inspections for entities such as bleachers in sports stadiums.

After purchasing from any of our illustrious lines, you will be able to email us for inspection questions, requests, and help. Additionally, if you feel that you are competent in seating repairs, we also sell individual parts for furniture.

Our philosophy is that since you paid for quality, you deserve quality for the long-lasting life of your seating. That is why we take every last opportunity to ensure that you get the best quality care, parts, support, and service from our well trained staff.

Published: 5 February 2013

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Categories: Locker Solutions

So, you know that your company or school will need lockers, but have you considered many seemingly nitpicking variables such as exact locker dimensions, minimum level of locker security required by the surrounding environment, and minimum durability required for your purposes? Luckily, Carroll Seating has specialists waiting to assist you in making the best possible decision for your company in regards to all of these factors and many more!

The Process
First, our professionals will assist you in attaining an idea of exactly what dimensions each locker will have to be. Then, they will assist you in picking out colors that match the aesthetics of the lockers’ potential surroundings. Using casework skills, they will help ensure you get the most spacious and durable lockers for the best price possible, assisting you in keeping within the allotted budget.

Customization
Perhaps one of the most unique features you may take advantage of when purchasing lockers from our company is the large latitude you are given for customization of the lockers for your budget, aesthetics, or both. For example, you will first have the choice of purchasing a group of new lockers, or a group of used lockers (which are still always pre-certified by us before selling).

Once you have made that primary decision, you will be allowed to choose the type and weight of the metal used to initially construct the locker. Additionally, you will have a say in the color, lock type, and general dimensions. These will all be compared with the initial casework done in order to ensure that it will all fit both physically and with the surroundings.

Immense Catalog
While Carroll Seating offers friendly, fast, and accurate services and high quality, premium furnishing, it also offers a much larger catalog of lockers to choose from than most of its competitors. While most competitors only offer very limited sizes, colors, types, lock security, and additional small factors that may play an important role in your environment, Carroll Seating’s mission is to provide you with exactly what you would like to have in your locker arrangement.

Finally, if you need to install lockers, please contact us by phone or email before making any large decisions. The last thing you want to do is rush a decision without knowing many factors and then being disappointed in a mediocre result. With us, you are guaranteed to have each factor done the way you want it done!

Published: 30 January 2013

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When Carroll Seating Company first began it was literally a basement operation: in 1952, Patrick Carroll, Sr., began to sell church pews from his basement. As the populous grew to admire his service, his business branched out to private schools. Subsequently, his furniture eventually diffused to public schools in the surrounding area.

However, eventually a basement was too small to accommodate the amount of work requests Mr. Carroll was fulfilling. Finally, he purchased an office in Chicago, Illinois on Hermitage Ave, and the business ran out of this office for a whopping fifty-one years. While the business was still growing strong, Patrick Carroll, Sr. passed away in 1975. Several years after his passing while under the leadership of another salesman his son, Patrick Carroll Jr., stepped up as President in 1997 and the headquarters were moved to Elk Grove, Illinois.

However, the business did and still does remain a multi-city operation, as the office in Elk Grove was retained and is still utilized. Michael Carroll brought the company’s legacy over to Kansas City, Missouri. With such a large presence on the symbolic landscape, the company rapidly gained more and more trust and reputation as more and more positive transactions went on through the years.

Now, there is no doubt about the reputation of Carroll Seating Company, seeing as it has served over 1500 organizations in five states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. Additionally, Carroll Seating Company is currently a conglomerate of many specialized, institutional furnishing lines for many purposes that serve the public good. The company successfully manages over $29 million in sales every year.

Due to such an illustrious history, Carroll Seating Company is indeed a trusted furnishing and installation company. The company has proven itself competent in multiple fields, as it has many successful lines such as Hussey Seating Company, Debourgh Manufacturering, Case Syemts James Town Metal Products, Performance Sports Systems, and many more contained within it.

As it has acquired more and more capital in the years, the company has invested wisely in more workers in widely varying fields to guarantee the best service possible such as in house estimators, project managers, administrative staff and a full facility service and repair team.

Family owned since it’s very founding, and it has gradually established permanent roots over the decades.

All of this goes to show the undying dedication the Carroll Seating Company has for consumer satisfaction. Whether it is a single chair, or a remodeling of an entire institution, Carroll Seating Company not only desires to help every customer to the fullest extent possible, but has also put out the capital to ensure that every consumer can be helped to the largest extent possible. Through such dedication very naturally comes trust from both returning and new clients.

Published: 22 January 2013

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Caregivers, and those who assist and support the caregivers in hospitals and healthcare institutions (facilities departments and engineering departments), are under constant pressure from regulators to create the optimum safe environment for both patient and staff. A facility’s choice in seating is no different, and believe it or not, a healthcare facility might easily get cited for choosing the wrong seating. This was the topic of an actual conversation a member of our sales team had with a long-time client who is a director of a major medical center in the Chicagoland area.

Healthcare inspectors are concerned with clutter in hospital hallways and other areas that must be kept accessible to fire alarms, medical gas alarms, emergency shut-off valves, and patient hook-ups in case of emergency and for the safety of caregivers and patients.

Violations by the accrediting agency (like The Joint Commission, for instance) or the AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) [a state or local department of health]) can be issued for one small oversight, often because NFPA and the “Environment of Care” (in the case of TJC) can be interpreted differently.

There has been a focus on reducing obstacles to these critical areas of care in healthcare institutions. A major concern is chairs used by hospital staff. Our line of Clarin by Hussey fixed seating offers a great solution to this regulation. Anchored to the floor, our nurse’s station, will not interfere with those critical areas, or other staff performing their duties.

Is it comfortable?
ABSOLUTELY! Clarin offers a variety of seats, backs, adjustable swivels to make it even more comfortable than any standard office chair you may purchase. It comes in a variety of colors, and will accommodate almost any individual’s size.

Is it durable?
You bet. Clarin has one of the most extensive warranties in the industry with 12 years on structural components and 5 years on moving components.

Is it versatile?
Of course! You can design your chairs any way you like by picking the way it’s anchored, how much mobility you require, the colors and types of surfaces you prefer. There are endless varieties of plastic, upholstery, and fabric options to integrate fully in to your space, while still maintaining a high morale among staff for its comfort and versatility.

Is it expensive?
The longevity and durability of this seating will outlast a typical desk chair. They are built for 24/7 use, and once installed, you won’t have to worry about it again. However, if there’s some change or adjustment you like, Carroll Seating Company will always be there to service you. That’s part of the trick of being in business for 63 years.