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Measuring Your House For Renovation – Step 1

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Details On How To Make An As-Built Home Survey- Step 1 One of the tough things about owning an As-Built measuring company is that almost nobody knows what As-Built measuring is!  So I am constantly trying to explain to friends, family and new people that I meet what it is that we do.  But… one…

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Starting the day off right – the Bustation Declaration!

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How We Get Fired Up To Make A Fantastic As-Built Survey For You HOW IT STARTED: We have always liked to think of ourselves as a fun company.  Whether it’s company parties and events, office jokes and pranks, or just the lively discussions and laughter that you hear on a daily basis, it’s clear that the…

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Summertime is time to Remodel!

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Use Summertime To Prepare For Your Renovation It is well-known that the best time for carrying out operations that require a lot of outdoor activity is during the summer. This is due to the warmth, sunshine and lack of rains that comes with the season. The dry summer periods have also always been the friendliest…

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Should you outsource your As-Built surveys?

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The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Your As-Built Surveys For many years, it has been common practice in the architectural community to outsource related professional services such as structural calculations, interior design, and model development to other firms. But for one reason or the other, As-Built drawings have not reached the same level of ubiquity as…

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Men of the Mustache

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Does The Mustache Belong In Today’s Work Environment? I can’t believe it has been more than 8 months since my last blog. During that time, there has actually been a lot going on with PPM. We’ve hired 4 new employees, revamped a bunch of our internal systems, and completed some really amazing As-Built projects. But…

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PPM Brings As-Built Services to Bay Area

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PPM Opens Office In Oakland To Service Northern California Clients After more than twelve successful years serving the local architecture and design community in Southern California, I am thrilled to announce that we at PPM now offer our complete range of services in Northern California as well. As of August 1st, we have opened a…

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As-Builts have a new home – we’ve Moved!

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PPM Expands Capabilities and Staff With New, Larger Offices Well, it was a good run at 3645 E. 4th St., but after five and a half years PPM has moved on to a new headquarters.  Over the last couple of weeks, we have settled in to our new location at 3750 Anaheim, which is still…

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How Accurate do YOUR As-Built Plans need to be?

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At PPM, Good Enough Is Never Enough At Precision Property Measurements, most of our clients are architects, designers and facility managers that work on remodel projects. For every new project, one of the first decisions they need to make is how to obtain an accurate set of a As-Built drawings. Many times, there are no existing…

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As-Built Surveys across the USA

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PPM As-Built Surveyors, National Coverage With A Personal Touch When PPM was founded in 2002, we were a small company in Huntington Beach with no employees and only a handful of landscape architect clients. At that time, we had no idea if there were any other companies that were doing As-Built surveys, or even how many…

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