Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Entry Fountain

The Front entry fountain pump seized up and has to be replaced. In addition to the pump it was discovered the motor brackets, impellers, sleeves, and gaskets need to be replaced. We had hoped to have the fountain up and running again quickly but unfortunately we are having problems getting replacement parts as the exisitng parts are 25 years old.

Thank you for your patience while we are working on getting the fountain up and running again.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Updated Paver Report By John Mulder

There have been many concerns about the pavers being bumpy.
The pavers we are considering are “Not bumpy” and are in fact smooth as concrete.

Stains seem to be another concern, along with problems when work needs to be done on water lines, cable lines, etc.

The nice thing about pavers is you can replace them easily without having to do patch jobs. We would keep extra pavers on hand to handle these problems.

Stained pavers from oil could simply be picked up and replaced most often by our own maintenance man Tim. Bigger problems such as sewer lines would also be much easier to repair or replace.

The biggest advantage to pavers, aside from the fact they look much nicer and are easier to repair is their longevity.

With the cost of Oil going up, the cost to replace blacktop is not only going to continually rise but so is the cost to repair the asphalt every few years. The cost today of putting in blacktop is substantially higher than when the road was originally installed.

Pavers virtually eliminate these messy and costly repairs.