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.

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.

Different Foundations

     Are you thinking about getting your basement waterproofed?  The different types of foundation of your house would determine the product ACCA would use to waterproof your basement.  There are 6 main types of foundation.
     One type of foundation is poured concrete walls.  This is the most common among houses today.  The second type of foundation is concrete block walls, which were most frequent 1940-1975, but are still used today.  Another type is stone walls, which are most likely in older homes.  The fourth foundation type is monolithic foundation walls, which could be blocked or poured walls. Those four foundations are probably the most common ones in houses today, but they are also wood foundation walls and precast foundation walls.
     If you call or e-mail ACCA to schedule your free estimate; our dealers, during your appointment, can farther explain to you want kind of foundation you have and what kind of waterproofing you would need for your home.
     Call ACCA at (812)479-8905 or toll free at (800)477-7340 or e-mail at info@accabasement.com.

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