July
2000 Newsletter
- About Us &
June's $100 winner!
- July's $$ Saving
Tip - lawn mowers
- Summer privacy- an
inventive idea
- Dust &
Electrostatic Air Filters
- Our Sponsors
- The monthly funny!
:) "Having Shingles"
1. About Us
& June's $100 winner!
Home-Work is a free referral
service that can help you with any
work you need done around your residential or commercial
property. We have done your "homework" for you
by screening
companies and providing you with the information we've gathered.
You will be well informed before you even meet the company.
Congratulations to this month's winner of $100 towards his
renovation project! The winner is John Kaminsky! If
you receive
this email, you are registered for each monthly draw! Best
of luck!
2. July's
$$ Saving Tip - Lawn Mowers
If your gasoline lawn mower is
old and needs a tune-up, save your
money and buy a battery-operated or electric mower. These
mowers do not pollute the air or the ground from leaking oil and
spilled gasoline.
Using a rechargeable mower will save you money. There is no
gasoline, oil, spark plug and yearly tune-up required. This can
save
a lot over its life. The mower uses only about $5 worth of
electricity
per year. You will be doing yourself and the environment a big
favor.
(Jim Dulley)
3. Summer
Privacy - an inventive idea
If you live in a new subdivision
as we do, you will know what I mean
by having no privacy while in your backyard! You can't even sit
on
your deck and have a barbecue without all of your neighbors
being
able to see and hear you. I was bound and determined this
summer to create a private and secluded deck to offer us a
little
"get-away" from our city surroundings.
I contracted one of our listed companies to build a wrought iron
piece that extends the length of our deck railing and
attaches directly onto the top deck rail. It was the
first one they had ever created, and fittingly we named it
"Deck Art"! It is in the shape of the setting sun-
suitable, as it sets on the west side of our deck.
Embedded in it are places for moss baskets and pots,
offering the rays of the sun as places for the vines to
grow. It is a great home for trailing Black-Eyed-Susans,
Morning Glories (hope you have better luck with these than
I did!) Clematis, Ivy and Sweet Peas. It's a nice
way to break free from the "everything square"
mentality of
suburbia! If you are interested in finding out more, please
call me at 247-1387, or register on-line. Robert would love to
talk to you about
creating "Deck, or Yard Art" for your property!
4. Dust and
Electrostatic Air Filters
Let's reflect on what we breath
in while in our homes....House dust
is a mixture of fibers from fabrics, feathers and other stuffing
material. It also contains bacteria, pet dander, bits of plants
and
insects, hairs and perhaps the worst of all, Dust Mites. The
Dust
Mite is a microscopic crab/spider critter. Approximately 42,000
live
in an ounce of dust and two million in an average household bed!
It is a proven fact that indoor air can be far more polluted
than
outdoor air, and most of us tend to spend over 90% of our time
indoors. This can be a real problem for the folks who have
allergies
or athsma, and for the millions of others that don't realize
they have
a problem.
Having an electrostatic air filter installed in your heating and
air
conditioning system is a cost effective strategy that will help
alleviate this problem. Electrostatic air filters use the
natural
phenomena of static electricity to trap and remove airborne
particles in the airstreams. As air flows through the layers of
static
prone polypropylene grids, a harmless static charge attracts and
holds airborne allergenic house dust.
5. Our
Sponsors
Please visit our sponsors as a
thank you for their continued
support! They offer many home services such as blind cleaning that
you may need done this summer. Let them know you found them
through Home-Work.
Check them out at http://www.home-workcanada.com/sponsors.htm
Remax House of Real Estate, Magiclean Cleaning Services,
Phantom Screens, High Security Lock Co., Pillar to Post Home
Inspection, Realty World Tempo, Handles & More, Paint'N'FauxFX,
Keaco Services, AmeriSpec Home Inspection Services.
6. The Monthly
Funny :-) "Having Shingles"
|A fellow walked into a doctor's
office and the receptionist asked
him what he had. He said, "Shingles." So she took down
his name,
address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.
A few minutes later a nurse's aid came out and asked him what he
had. He said, "Shingles." So she took down his height,
weight, a
complete medical history and told him to wait in the examining
room.
Ten minutes later a nurse came in and asked him what he had. He
said, "Shingles." So she gave him a blood test, a
blood pressure
test, an electrocardiogram, told him to take off all his clothes
and
wait for the doctor.
Fifteen minutes later the doctor came in and asked him what he
had. He said, "Shingles." The doctor said,
"Where?" He said, "Outside in the truck.
Where do you want them?"
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