Heartlands Building Company

http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/306045/78/St-Louis-Home-and-Garden-Show We had a great time meeting a lot of people at the St. Louis HBA Home and Garden Show over the weekend. If you don't blink, you can see me demonstrating our retractable screen door in the video link above. Don't forget, the home show special pricing of $25 off each single door and $50 off each French door is still good through the end of March. That's also the deadline for getting us to donate $25 for each door sold to the Jack and JT Snow Fund! Also, now is the time to get an estimate on building an outdoor room. If you wait until the weather gets any nicer, you're screen room, patio or deck won't be complete before summer. While Spring and Fall are the prime times to get use out of your outdoor room, the addition of roof insulation and ceiling fans can extend the time you will spend there this summer. If you add a fireplace or infrared heaters, you'll expand your spring and fall outdo

Heartlands Home Show Special The St. Louis HBA Home and Garden Show opens on Thursday, February 23rd and runs through Sunday, February 26th. Heartlands will be in booth 716 so be sure to come by and see us. If you need free tickets for Thursday, call us at 636-728-0003. Our home show special is $25 off each single retractable screen door and $50 off each French retractable screen door. In addition, you can get another $25 off each door ordered at the show. On top of that, we will donate $25 to the Jack & JT Snow Fund for each retractable screen door sold now through March 31, 2012. This is the best time of year to order a screen and the lowest price you'll see, with the added benefit of knowing that a donation will be made to a worthy cause.

What is a retractable screen door? It's the product that put Heartlands on the map but has actually been around since the 1920s. I've heard there are some original units still in use too! It fills the need to have screens on an opening when you want to let fresh air in, without having them be there when you don't. It's especially useful on French doors, where you might have done without screens in the past. Basically, retractable screens work in a similar way to the old roll up shades many of us grew up with. An extruded aluminum housing is mounted on the side door frame. A pull bar with a handle, is attached to the screen which is attached to a spring loaded tube inside the housing. Tracks are mounted on the top of the door frame and inside a sill adapter at the bottom, and the pull bar, followed by the screen, glide through those tracks. On the opposite side, a magnet is mounted which catches and holds to a magnet hidden inside the pullbar. When not in use, the s

2012 marks the 10th anniversary for Heartlands Building Company. In 2002, owner Larry Brost started Heartlands Home Products offering retractable screen doors. Soon, offerings were expanded to retractable roll screens and screen rooms. As the company grew, so did it’s expertise in all types of outdoor rooms, additions and homes. In 2010, we redesigned our website to reflect our increased capabilities and showcase our beautiful work. Today, Heartlands is a premier custom design/builder in the St. Louis area, responsible for projects ranging from those retractable screens to award winning outdoor rooms with features such as outdoor kitchens and stone fireplaces. Our customers are discriminating and we vow to live up to their high expectations of creative design solutions and exemplary workmanship. This is Heartlands' first blog entry. Check back for helpful hints about planning an outdoor living space, building project checklists, before and after photos of projects, and