Thanksgiving

ACCA Companies has a lot of things to be thankful for this year. Here is just a simple list of the things ACCA is grateful for.

First of all, we are grateful for the quick recovery that Doris Popham, CEO-Emeritus and co-founder of ACCA.  After her stroke Doris is making a healthy improvement.  We are thankful to have her in lives and thankful for how she has touched us with her love without the years.

Second, we are thankful for you!  Our customers are wonderful to us and we appreciate serving you and the tri-state community since 1956.

Third, our employees are a HUGE part of ACCA’s success we are very grateful for their hard work.  We had a luncheon on Sunday to thank the employees for their hard work and dedication to ACCA Companies.

Thank you and have a safe, and healthy Thanksgiving.

Hapy Thanksgiving!
Joe, CEO; Paige, Daughter; and Pam, Aunt at
Employee Appreciation Lunch at Kipplees 

Halloween Weekend

Happy Halloween!

Have you gotten rid of your creepy crawlers yet?

Is your basement a Dungeon?

ACCA can help!

     Happy Halloween Weekend! ACCA has new lettering and tombstones outside their office just in time for Halloween! Make sure you drive by and check it out!  Nothing wrong with having a little fun at the office for Halloween!

     With all the raining days, Evansville has had lately have you checked your basement to make sure it isn’t a Dungeon?  Make sure you check it out make sure there are no leaks or water on the ground! If there looks like a problem, make you call an ACCA professional to come take a look at it.

     Make sure the creepy critters don’t get to you this Halloween either!

Social Media

     ACCA Companies has recently started to use social media! Did you know you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Foursquare, YouTube, MerchantCircle and more?  ACCA would like to make our connection with you over the internet!
      Learn information through our blog, but you can also just quick information about what we are doing that through quicker forms.  If you “like” us on Facebook you will just to look through pictures and be able to see updates from ACCA.  Our Twitter handle is @ACCACompanies.  Make sure you follow us for quick 140 characters or less information.  By using these forms of media, ACCA would like to better communicate with our customer and other businesses.  Now make sure you “check-in” to ACCA.

Where is ACCA Located?

     ACCA Companies, Inc. is a company with professional waterproofing and pest control.  ACCA specializes in using modern systems to waterproof your basement or crawl space.  In the other blogs, why having a dry basement and crawl space has been exampled, and tips for what to look out for. But how do you get your appointment and who will be your waterproofing specialist?
     ACCA is right off

Morgan Ave

across from Showplace Cinemas East, but you do not have to come here, ACCA can come to you.  Give us a call at (812)479-8905! If you are needing waterproofing, either Joseph Popham or Karie Craig will come out to help you with your basement or crawl space problems.
    

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Check Out Your Crawl Space

     ACCA Basement Systems does not just do basements, but ACCA waterproofs crawl spaces as well.

     The effects of Groundwater in dirt crawl spaces can cause a big problem in your house.  The earth is damp, in crawl spaces that are dirt; your crawl space will never be completely dry.  As a homeowner, you can never dry the earth.  If you have a dirt crawl space, water vapor will most likely coming from your crawl space, and going into your home.  The Groundwater can seep and run through many crawl spaces, the water will probably not directly affect your house, but the water in the air will.

     Groundwater can seep into your crawl space causing in to seep into your home.  The water can go through cracks in poured walls.  It can also go right through brick walls and under the footing.  If the water is not noticed it can sit there in puddles.  If water is just sitting in a puddle in your crawl space the damp air will go up into your house which is similar to the Stack Effect that was talked about in another post.

     Make sure you look at your crawl space to see if it is a dirt crawl space, or you can call the experts at ACCA to take a look at it.  There could be a problem even if you can not see it.  ACCA will do a FREE inspection of your crawl space!

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Pest Control, 4 dollars? Yeah Right.



Pete and Doris' Business Cards

      Can you imagine a time where hiring Pest Control services would cost you 4-5 dollars?  ACCA can reminder, when ACCA Companies started their most expensive client was at 8 dollars and 45 cents a trip.

     ACCA Companies was founded in 1956 by Ernest (Pete) Sr. and Doris Popham.  The company started out as Pest Control and then moved into waterproofing.

     “It rained and a (pest control) customer’s basement was under water, so Pete wanted to help them out by fixing their basement,” says Doris Popham on how they got into the basement waterproofing business.  Pete would do anything to help people, so he started to do more businesses and it became an out-of-house waterproofing company wearing his khaki on khaki uniform.  From the years on until 1974, ACCA Companies was run out of Pete and Doris’s home, where Doris Popham still lives today. In 1974 they bought the office that ACCA works out of today (4501 E Morgan Ave) across from Showplace Cinemas, back then it was not Showplace, it was a drive-in movie theater.

     In 1959 and 1960, Pete and Doris celebrated the birth of their 2 kids, Joseph and LaQuita.  Joe and LaQuita attended St. Bens Grade School then Reitz Memorial High School.  Joe graduated in 1977 and attending Indiana State University.  LaQuita graduated from Memorial in 1978 and then attended University of Southern Indiana playing both basketball and softball of the university. In 1981, Joe started working at ACCA in the pest control and starting to work his way to selling waterproofing.  LaQuita started in 1983 doing office work and being a pest control tech.  In 1994, Pete retired and the business was handed over to Joe and LaQuita.  The business is still running in full force today with the same principles as they were when Pete started the company.

More Fun Facts

     Joe and his wife, Mary, were blessed with their two kids in 1988 and 1990.  When they were still too young for school, Pete did not want them to go to daycare, they spent their time at the ACCA office beign watched but their aunt, LaQuita (who they still today call Nana) and their grandma, Doris.  They old toys are still at the office today.  Rachel and Paige attended Holy Rosary then Reitz Memorial High School.  Rachel graduated in 2007 from Memorial and will graduate from Ball State in Special Education this winter.  Paige graduated from Memorial in 2009, and is studying PR and Advertising at University of Southern Indiana while working at ACCA part-time in the office.  The family business continues.

TGIF

Thank Goodness It's Friday!
     Are you thinking of buying or building a new house? Yes, it is always nice to look at the physical parts, the aspects of the house that people will see and make them feel like they are at home.  The homeowner will go for the things that make the home beautiful, but you have to remember what will make the house last longer.  One feature that will help is looking to make sure, if you are building, to protect your basement ahead of time, or if you are buying to look at the features of the basement.
     Providing a coat on the basement walls and making sure they have a proper drain around the bottom of the foundation could really improve the lasting time of your home in the long run.  Your home would be a lot healthier, the air will be a lot cleaner when dry, and the value of your home could possibly go up.
      Make sure you call ACCA for your free estimate on your basement or crawl space.

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