Every day, Spahn & Rose trucks leave the Dubuque, Iowa, store to make around 35 deliveries a day. Spahn & Rose delivery trucks from all 24 store locations will sometimes unload building material through second-story windows, and Spahn & Rose employees haul drywall and other materials to exactly where contractors and builders need them—often within hours of an order.
What would that roof look like with some new GAF Timberline shingles? Would your dining room look sharp with new maroon paint? Or perhaps a luscious crème color? How might new CertainTeed siding increase your home’s curb appeal?
Anytime, day or night, any day of the week, Spahn & Rose’s WebTrack app enables contractors and builders to access invoices, review previous orders and make payments. New app features include delivery-tracking notifications and the ability to pay bills with a credit card.
Each day at the 24 Spahn & Rose lumberyards throughout Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, the lumber gets culled. Employees with decades of experience sort through the in-stock lumber and remove any boards that don’t meet the highest quality standards.
Chances are your kitchen needs help—and you don’t even know it. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about renovating your kitchen but aren’t sure where to start. A Spahn & Rose design expert can improve your kitchen in lots of surprising ways. (more…)
A couple in Bettendorf, Iowa, recently visited Dawn Tiesman, a Cabinet Designer at the DeWitt Spahn & Rose location, to consult about a kitchen redesign. They hoped to remodel both their kitchen and an unused formal dining area to update the style of both areas and make the overall space better for entertaining. The challenge: Tiesman had to work within the confines of some support structures. (more…)
“Is the shingle really that color?”
“What’s the siding’s texture feel like?”
“Does that composite decking look like wood?”
It just got a lot easier for contractors and builders to answer questions like these from homeowners who are building a new house or renovating. Contractors in the Midwest can now find in-store samples of a vast range of building materials through the Spahn & Rose Display Directory.
A recent Friday morning started early for Steve Collins, a Driver for Spahn & Rose’s Dubuque, Iowa, location. Rolling out from the lumberyard at 6 a.m. with a load of about 200 sheets of drywall, Collins began the three-and-a-half-hour drive to Merrillan, Wisconsin.
Spahn & Rose paint-matching experts like Regina Digmann, Assistant Manager in the Monticello, Iowa, Spahn & Rose location, don’t need to guess. Using a state-of-the-art paint-matching spectrophotometer, Digmann can tell customers down to a tenth of a percent how accurate the paint match is. (more…)
The Epicor BisTrack system will more effectively coordinate deliveries, ensuring that the right material is delivered to the correct job site on time. It’s common for a single Spahn & Rose store to make up to 50 deliveries daily—and on a typical day, a Spahn & Rose truck travels 200 miles and makes several deliveries.
