Planning a home improvement job? Planting a tree? Installing a fence or deck? WAIT! Here's what you need to know first: Whether you are planning to do it yourself or hire a professional, smart digging means calling 811 before each job. Homeowners often make risky assumptions about whether or not they should get their utility lines marked, but every digging job requires a call – even small projects like planting trees and shrubs.

Saving water doesn’t have to involve the cost and inconvenience of tearing up your yard to install a new irrigation system. It’s easy to save water and reduce your utility bills with simple changes to your landscaping and gardening routine:

Mastering a few basic Excel tools helps tremendously in managing all the data we use in Marketing and Sales. One skill I see people struggle with is how to copy a table from the Internet into Excel. Here is a quick primer for that skill.

Underground Warning Tapes are used for the safety and protection of underground utility lines. The tape is laid above the utility pipes/bundles, providing a warning that there is a utility asset under the tape. There are two primary types: Detectable and Non-Detectable.

Barricade Tape is known by many names: crime scene tape, police tape, warning tape, caution tape, danger tape, barrier tape, to name a few. Regardless of what you call it, you see it used almost every day. Barricade Tape is usually 3” wide and comes in a variety of lengths, the most common being 1000 feet.

Last week we looked at the history of stake flags and their common uses. This week we focus on the anatomy of a stake flag.

When you are driving to work, do you ever wonder why the little marking flags appear on the side of the road or why paint is sometimes marked on the concrete?

At Presco, we call it roll flagging. But people call it marking tape, flagging tape, surveyor’s tape or combinations of these, e.g., surveyor’s flagging tape. Roll Flagging has been used for outdoor marking since before WWII.