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Sepulveda
Building Material
Home Improvement Specialists
by
Tom Morrow
Some of Southern
California's most beautiful masonry structures were constructed
with products from Sepulveda Building Materials in Laguna Niguel.
For nearly
five decades, Sepulveda has provided builders, residents, and
home improvement specialists with masonry supplies, natural stone,
blocks, bricks, barbeques-building materials, and even firewood
throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino
counties.
You name it,
if it's a South Coast construction project of stone, blocks, bricks,
cement, or concrete, there's a very good chance Sepulveda has
supplied the materials.
Sepulveda
is a family-operated business founded by Cornelius "Bud" Connors
in 1960. Since that time, Sepulveda Building Materials has maintained
a commitment to seek new ways to provide innovative, quality masonry
and landscape products at competitive prices to achieve unique
and distinctive décor for all types of projects. Sepulveda is
always upgrading and maintaining its fleet of vehicles to improve
delivery service.
"Bud's" son,
John Connors, took over the company in 1970. Today, the firm's
headquarters is in Laguna Niguel, with four other retail outlets
which service a great part of Southern California.
Sepulveda
has a strong Internet presence (www.sepulveda.com),
and more than a hundred dedicated employees. The company is prospering
with its mission to fill customers' needs for masonry, tile, and
related products with exceptional service and competitive prices.
"We are the
place to come to if you're looking for natural stone, any sort
of tile or landscaping products," says Rick Costa, Sepulveda's
sales manager. "We service building contractors, masons, and home
do-it-yourselfers."
Costa said
one of the hot products today for home improvement is veneer natural
stone.
"Natural stone
weighs 50 pounds per square foot, so if you put it on the side
of a building or house, that's a lot of weight to hold up," Costa
explained. "Thin veneer natural stone is sliced to the point where
it only weighs 15 pounds per square foot, making it far more desirable
in construction and home improvement, and you still have the same
natural stone beauty."
Sepulveda
Building Materials is a one-stop center for just about everything
needed to construct that backyard barbecue, new driveway, patio,
or any concrete finishing, including tools, mixers, and more.
But Sepulveda
isn't just a "fair-weather" construction supply house. "Back when
Mr. Connors first started the business, he noticed there was little
or no business during the rainy season because masons couldn't
be on the job, so he came up with something that could be sold
when things were slow: firewood," Costa said.
Since 1960,
Sepulveda Building Materials has built up a reputation among homeowners,
businesses, and especially restaurants as "the place" to go for
firewood.
"We don't
just supply homeowners, we deliver to a great many restaurants
throughout the southland," Costa said. "We have everything from
a full cord of wood right down to a small bundle. Our wood is
clean, stacked or bundled neatly. All types of wood, soft, hard,
mixed, you name it."
Costa said
during the holiday season a lot of the company's customers give
firewood as gifts.
"I mean,
what do you give someone who has everything?" he said, laughing.
"Every Christmas, we have one customer who has us deliver a half-cord
of firewood to a friend of his, complete with a red ribbon."
He said red
ribbons go with every delivery of gift firewood during the holiday
season, if requested.
"When you
get wood delivered from us, it's all wrapped and stacked," Costa
assured. "We offer a mixture of hard and soft woods, redwood,
oaks, whatever you'd like and we set the pallet down right where
you want it."
Costa says
Sepulveda surprisingly has captured a huge market share of the
higher BTU-rated firewood.
"We cater
to restaurants, offer restaurant-split, which are specific-burning
woods cut to certain sizes to fit restaurant ovens," he explained.
As for masonry
supplies and projects, some of the more impressive public structures
along the South Coast area Sepulveda Building Materials has supplied
include Laguna Niguel's Flower Bed Fountain, Keystone Fountain,
and the Laguna Hills Community Center. Sepulveda Building Materials
also supplied the masonry ingredients for the TSgt. Ted Tanouye
Memorial
at Torrance High School.
Sepulveda
Building Materials maintains a state-of-the art computer system
to coordinate ordering, dispatching and billing, making it one
of Southern California's top supply centers using the e-commerce
market place.
Drop by the
main Sepulveda center at 28092 Forbes Rd., Laguna Niguel, or phone
toll-free 1-888-MAD-ROQS (1-888-623-7677); or go online at: www.sepulveda.com.
Other Southern
California locations for Sepulveda Building Material are located
in Gardena, San Bernardino, Thousand Palms, and Indio.
Sepulveda
Building Materials
1-888-MAD-ROQS
(1-888-623-7677)
www.sepulveda.com
(Winter 2008)
Photos by Rick Costa
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