Facilities Maintenance - Protecting Your Pipes from Freezing Temperature

When we experience freezing temperatures in our typically warm, humid climates throughout the South, many residential homes and businesses are left wondering how to prevent frozen pipes. Greenup Industries specializes in In-Plant Property Management including Plumbing and Septic Maintenance, so we’ve asked our experts for a few tips that might help you when temperatures dip closer to freezing.

Safeguard Your Pipes
During freezing temperatures, your pipes are at high risk. If they freeze over, they can sometimes burst causing a lot of financial strain to fix or replace. In order to avoid this, let your sinks drip overnight. This helps prevent pipes from freezing. In addition, open cabinet doors to kitchen and bathroom sinks to allow warm air to protect and circulate around plumbing. Keep doors, windows and garages closed during these times, too, to better insulate and warm plumbing.

Exterior Pipes Need Different Protection
Spigots and outside pipes and plumbing require a bit of a different approach when preparing to prevent freezing. Wrap outside pipes in small towels and let drip if necessary. 

Prevent Frozen Septic Tanks 
Septic tanks freezing over can be an unimaginable mess for your business or home. To avoid dealing with what could be a severely foul occurrence, take the following precautions. Empty your septic tank. Yes, this is regular maintenance, but not always the first task people jump at when temperatures are already uncomfortably low. If a full tank freezes, this could cause a septic tank to burst. Another thing to consider is cracks and open areas. Be sure to inspect for any potential leaking as this could also invite more liquid to seep into the tank and cause bursting. And of course, keep water moving through the system if possible. Water in motion won’t freeze, so if your business is closed due to inclement weather, be sure to check back in daily and induce some motion through the system.

Greenup Industries is a full-service maintenance provider throughout the Gulf Coast Region. Let us help you prepare or fix issues concerning your plumbing. Contact us at info@greenupind.com or call us at 225-283-4843.

Large-scale projects simplified through ease of process

Without effective onboarding, it takes service vendors and their employees longer to get up to speed and drive profitability for your business. When your company struggles to manage onboarding tasks, there are several consequences, including:

• Slower third-party turnaround time, which may impact future revenue opportunities.

• Improper third-party vetting, which leads to increased legal compliance risks.

• Wasted time and resources, taking your attention away from higher priorities.

Greenup Industries, a provider of maintenance and third-party procurement services, provides a full range of onboarding solutions, maintenance and staffing services, as well as specialty construction services, to a diverse client base. Greenup Industries can solve your onboarding problems in five steps:

Step 1: Attract the best subcontractors to your organization.

Step 2: Evaluate potential subcontractors.

Step 3: Hire and onboard subcontractors.

Step 4: Provide on-site supervision to ensure quality work.

Step 5: Free your organization from subcontractor headaches.

During the past five years, Greenup Industries' strategy has been to identify opportunities to retrofit and change systems so they work more efficiently.

"We first realized that one of the most impactful ways to cut costs in facilities management is to have our vendors join the Greenup team," explained Rodney Greenup, CEO of Greenup Industries. "We now have thousands of experienced, qualified and vetted vendors and can offer our clients safe onboarding, quality control, oversight and indemnity for our services."

For 30 years, Greenup Industries has provided professional and specialized services and procurement support to a diverse clientele. A trusted construction and project management partner, Greenup Industries has built its solid reputation by addressing the needs of the oil and gas and telecommunication industries, as well as government agencies.

Through its proprietary software, Greenup Tracker, all of Greenup Industries' vendors are managed in the same consistent manner. Each vendor chosen to participate must be capable of performing quality work and be insured. Geared toward continuous improvement, Greenup Tracker significantly increases your project's prospects for success.

Before onboarding, vendors must sign an indemnity agreement, submit to drug testing and have a clean safety record (no safety incidents within the past 12-36 months). To ensure accountability and quality assurance, a Greenup representative escorts the vendor to the worksite and tracks the on-site training.

Greenup Tracker also provides vendors with an efficient system and reliable terms for payment.

"We developed Greenup Tracker to solve two different sets of problems," Greenup said. "For our clients, we wanted to reduce the amount of time spent administering contracts, tracking vendors and entering data manually from multiple monitoring systems. For our vendors, we wanted to standardize and ease the process of getting them onboarded, vetted and paid. The system is a win-win for everyone involved. Preferred vendors gain access to multiple jobsites and can easily add a work order, check on the progress of any job and monitor their payment status with ease."

For more information, visit www.greenupind.com or call (225) 283-4843.

Streamline processes with Greenup Tracker

For 30 years, Greenup Industries has provided professional and specialized services and procurement support to a diverse clientele, addressing the needs of the oil and gas and telecommunication industries as well as government agencies. Now, with the release of Greenup Tracker, its proprietary software that allows for a more streamlined process, Greenup Industries seeks to further solidify its reputation as a trusted solutions provider.

"We developed Greenup Tracker as a two-pronged solution," explained CEO Rodney Greenup. "For our clients, we wanted to reduce the amount of time spent administering contracts, tracking vendors, and entering data manually from multiple monitoring systems. For our vendors, we wanted to standardize and ease the process for getting them onboard, vetted, and paid. The system is a win-win for everyone involved."

During the past five years, Greenup Industries' strategy has been to identify opportunities to retrofit and change systems, so they work more efficiently.

"We first realized that one of the most impactful ways to cut costs in facilities management is to have our vendors be a part of the Greenup team," Greenup said. "Now we have thousands of vendors and can offer our clients so much more: safe onboarding, quality control, and oversight, and the assumption of liability and indemnity, to name a few."

Quality and accountability

At Greenup Industries, all vendors are managed in the same consistent manner. Each is vetted and must be insured and capable of performing quality work. Before onboarding, vendors must sign an indemnity agreement, submit to drug testing, and have a clean safety record (no safety incidents within the past 12-36 months). To ensure accountability and quality assurance, a Greenup representative escorts the vendor to the worksite, and any on-site trainings.

Ease of process

Greenup Tracker provides vendors with an efficient system and reliable terms for payment.

"Through Greenup Tracker, you can easily add a work order, check on the progress of any job and monitor your payment status with ease," Greenup said. "As a preferred vendor, you can gain access to multiple job sites and immediately see the impact of growing your business."

Greenup Industries is one of the largest third-party-services trading houses in the U.S. and has offices established throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Currently, Greenup is looking to expand to Florida and in the Mississippi Valley toward Missouri.

"As we grow, we stay mindful of our goal to provide the finest-quality services to our clients, to continually improve performance, and to add value to whatever services we provide," Greenup stated.

For more information, visit www.greenupind.com or call (225) 283-4843.

Facilities Maintenance - Commercial Lawn care makes the First Impression

Throughout the South, winter often means we don’t have to focus much energy on lawn care. When considering your commercial business, first impressions are too important, so just because the freezing temperatures we’ve recently had have given us an excuse to focus our efforts on the inside, doesn’t mean we should start planning for the spring. Remember, the first thing clients and customers see when they arrive at your business is the exterior.

Here are 4 Key Benefits of Lawn Care Planning

Appearance 
The way clients and visitors perceive your business can make or break your success. An office/building with properly maintained landscaping ensures positive first impressions to clients and their networks. Those who see a well-maintained exterior will view your business as professional, fostering a sense of trust. Regardless of what services or products your company offers, if people see you take pride in the appearance of your business, they will associate your brand with high quality.

Safety
As always, safety is at the top of our minds at Greenup Industries. When landscaping is unkempt, this poses a potential danger to those going through your doors. Taking care of your lawn and landscaping means taking care of your staff, clients, and potential customers.

Save Money 
When you work with a lawn and landscaping business, like Greenup Specialty Services, you’ll get a professional opinion on what your business needs. Working with professionals to establish a budget and recurring maintenance allows you to save money long term. Work with Greenup Specialty Services to determine which types of plants, trees, and other foliage work best in your climate and terrain to avoid having to replace them later. Greenup Specialty Services can discuss and work with you on how to implement a design that works best for your business.

Establish a Landscape Management Plan 
There are plenty of benefits to establishing a landscape management plan. In addition to the aforementioned, a plan establishes a routine for commercial landscape maintenance care. This will help you and the property owners prepare for the upcoming seasons and anticipate what type of work needs to be done to keep the outside neat and manicured. A wonderful benefit to having a plan is that you can work with the lawn care service providers to adapt and better the landscaping over time, allowing for strategic cultivation that increases property value.

Greenup Industries is a full-service maintenance provider throughout the Gulf South Region. We specialize in taking away the headaches of facilities maintenance. If you would like more information, contact us at info@greenupind.com or give us a call at 225-283-4843.