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Landfill Attack!
Would you like to get paid up to $50.00 for recycling your old refrigerator, freezer or conditioner? Well, Ask Lon.com found a resource that picks up these items for free then assures the professional containment of greenhouse gasses during the recycling process and also reduces the amount of hazardous material entering our landfills. Everyone’s a winner!
Click here for complete details: http://www.arcaincutility.com/
Window AC Removal Service
AC Removal:
Don’t do it yourself! Have it done professionally… call Ask Lon for a free estimate!
Do it yourself?
Deck Refinishing – The Cheapest Bid
We presented a bid to refinish eight decks for a condo association and were informed that someone offered to do it for 40% less than us. I reworked the numbers and felt that our price was reasonable. As a cost saving measure The Condo Association selects the lower bidder. Conclusion: the decks need to be redone; the contractor splashed stain/sealer onto the roof, metal flashings, gutter, AC unit, door threshold(s), painted wood trim and recently painted metal railing. Stain/Sealer cannot be removed from a rubber roof, and it will cost the association far more than our original estimate to complete the remaining repairs. BTW, lowest bidder did not have insurance.
Not good!
Power Washing Decks, Fences or Siding Using a Green Cleaner
We have field tested a nice outdoor cleaning product. It removes dirt, mildew, algae and fungus stains on a range of outdoor surfaces, including wood and composite decks, fences, concrete, masonry, brick, stucco, outdoor furniture, roofs, siding and some fabrics such as awnings and vinyl plastics. It is an effective, oxygen powered cleaner concentrate that is biodegradable and gentler than chlorine bleach-based formulas.
It’s not inexpensive, when compared to more traditional products, and still requires a lot of elbow grease, the proper scrub brushes and a professional grade power washer for decks and fencing but it is less harmful to pets, shrubs and trees.
We have learned several things to improve its performance and we recommend you follow the manufactures instructions on the back of the bottle before you give Thompson’s® WaterSeal® Oxy Foaming Action Exterior Multi-Surface Cleaner a try. Or have Ask Lon! Remodeling and Handyman Services do the cleaning for you just like this Condo Associations has…Next up – the fence!
Another simple “Green” solution…
Please join us in this important “Green” effort. It’s so simple!
Click here to find a drop-off center in your neighborhood: http://m.call2recycle.org/
Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!
Note: Americans purchase nearly three billion batteries annually, and about 179,000 tons of those end up in landfills across the country.
Remodeling, Repair and Handyman Services
Lon and Pam’s Dream Home
Over the last few years, seems that people are staying longer in their existing homes. Even the rate of home entertaining and stay at home vacations has dramatically increased. Makes us wonder why then, do so many people wait to make home improvements until they are ready to sell? Whether you’re planning to stay or prepping to sell – please take a moment to view our latest “before & after” video and discount offer. Please give me a call to schedule a Free Estimate and thank you for your continued support.
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Lon Thomas Owner/Operator Ask Lon! 5632 Church Street Morton Grove, IL 60053 (847)636-0771 www.asklon.com———————————–
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Door Repair and Door Security Up-Grades
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Door Repair and Security Up-Grades by Ask Lon!
Being burglarized is a terrible experience. I know because it has happened to me. So, I’ve shot a video showing how to install an inexpensive door security up-grade to help lessen the likelihood of it happening again. Additionally, in the past 3 weeks I have been contacted by 3 different customers (one of them even had ADT Security) about break-ins.
In security this philosophy applies: “If you and a friend are being chased by a bear you only need to outrun your friend.” So let’s make your home visibly more challenging to break into.
Pervasiveness:
- 85% of all break-ins are through a door
- It takes 10 seconds for a burglar to kick-in a door
- An experienced burglar is gone in less than 12 minutes
- Police response time to a typical home alarm is often greater than 10 minutes
- 38 percent of assaults and 60 percent of rapes occur during home invasions
- One in five homes undergoes a home invasion or break-in
- There are more than 8,000 home invasions every day in North America
- In 48 percent of home invasions, victims sustain physical injuries
- Victims age 60 or older make up 17 percent of home invasion victims
Thankfully, added protection does not cost a fortune!
Actually nothing can be done to assure that the professional burglar will be kept out of your home but the good news is that most thieves are not well equipped and therefore look for the quick and easy targets. When they see a solid properly installed lock and door system, and kick one of these door frame supports, they generally move on to a door without them.
It costs approximately 3 times more to repair a door then it does to install improved door security.
Ask Lon combines different systems to make life more challenging for the professional burglar and to help outwit the beginner. Call me now @ 847-636-0771 to inquire about scheduling a free estimate.
Sincerely,
Lon Thomas Owner Ask Lon! 847-636-0771 Info@asklon.comTip of the Week! Naughty verses Nice?
Question: “Lon, which is better for the enviroment artifical or a real cut tree?”
Answer: “Nauty verses Nice” The nice option is to consider a living potted tree to be transplaned on your property or dontated to the local parks department for spring planting. But if that’s not feasible… Real cut trees are considered a carbon-nutral purchase for several reasons:
- For every real Christmas tree harvested, up to three seedlings are planted and last year 60 million trees were planted by farmers
- 500,000 acres of production Christmas trees provide the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people
- Real trees are recyclable – a critical step, please don’t’ throw them in the garbage!
Roughly 80% of artificial trees are produced in Asia. Made of non-biodegradable materials which eventually find their way to American landfills where they remain for centuries. When you factor in the energy consumption, pollution discharged, packaging and shipping; well it’s simply not worth it for generations to come.
Real trees are a renewable resource when delivered to a recycling center. Below is a list of local recycling centers where your tree may become:
- Chipping material used as mulch or to sustain hiking trails
- Stabilization of shorelines or new fish habitat
- Cook County uses recycled Christmas trees to rebuild housing structures for natural wildlife that have been destroyed through urban development.
Below is a list of Recycling Centers in Chicago or check your village community web site for local drop-off locations. Drop trees off anytime “Just throw your tree on the pile,” they advised.
Chicago Christmas tree Recycling Sites: Bessemer Park 8930 S. Muskegon Ave. / Clark Park 3400 N. Rockwell / Forestry Site 900 E. 103rd St. / Garfield Park 100 N. Central Park Ave. / Grant Park 900 S. Columbus / Humboldt Park Boathouse 1369 N. Sacramento / Jackson Park 6300 S. Cornell / Kennedy Park 11320 S. Western / Kelvyn Park 4438 W. Wrightwood / Lake Meadows Park 3117 S. Rhodes / Lincoln Park Cannon Dr. at Fullerton Ave.(Parking lot east of Cannon Dr.) / Margate Park 4921 N. Marine Dr. / Marquette Park 6700 S. Kedzie / McKinley Park 2210 W. Pershing Rd. / Mt. Greenwood Park 3721 W. 111th St. / North Park Village 5801 N. Pulaski Rd. / Norwood Park 5801 N. Natoma / Portage Park 4100 N. Long / Riis Park 6100 W. Fullerton / Rowan Park 11546 S. Avenue L / Sheridan Park 910 S. Aberdeen St. / Warren Park 6601 N. Western Ave. / Wentworth Park 5625 S. Mobile
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