Patented

In The News

• The Winnipeg Sun - Business Section - April 19th, 2004
  "Brothers Raise Concrete Idea - SlabSetters Ease Paving Block Jobs"
   
• Jon Eakes - Star of "Just Ask Jon Eakes" on the HGTV & DIY Television networks
  "You know that I love Canadian inventions, especially ones that make jobs easier and safer. Here is an invention from Manitoba that allows you to easily install or adjust those heavy concrete patio steps, without bending over! Read through the instructions. You'll only wonder why no one thought of this before."
  Jon Eakes (www.joneakes.com on the SlabSetters product page)
   
• the Herald / Lance / Metro / Times / Headliner - Winnipeg's weekly community newspapers - April 2004
  "Lay cement slabs without scraping your fingers - Winnipeg invention helps prevent injury, strain - and messy work"
   
• The Grand Forks Herald
  "Entrepeneurs market landscaping tool"
   
• Hanley-Wood  - Concrete & Masonry Construction Products Tabloid - May/June 2004
  "jobsite equipment & tools - hand tools - SlabSetters"
   
• Home BUILDER Magazine - May/June 2004
  "TOOL TALK with Jon Eakes"
   
• Transcona Views - August 2004
  "Made in Transcona - A Tool Of Convenience Becomes An Implement Of Local Success"
   
• Concrete Products Magazine - August-2004
  "Landscape Unit Lifters"
   
• Winnipeg's A-Channel Morning "Big Breakfast Show - August 27th, 2004
  Video of 4 minute segment not available at this time
   
• Winnipeg Free Press - Sunday Homes Section - June 5th, 2005
  "Manitoba-made finger saver  - To move a slab, this tool is fab"
   
• Calgary Herald - Life at Home Section - June 3rd, 2006
  "Concrete solutions ease a heavy job - SlabSetters makes light work of sidewalks, patios"