Janice Roosevelt’s Blog

“Very happy with results. Sold my home. did a great job kept us well informed and worked hard to get the right buyer .”
Joseph W Gonczi, Seller 

“Tenacious, informative, knowledgeable, and friendly.Janice helped us a lot when we moved from the UK. She kept us informed about the market and available houses and we very knowledgeable about the whole as a whole. Janice was very personable and approachable. I would have no hesitatation in recommending her to friends. If we decide to move, Janice would be our first ‘port of call’.”
Jacqui Mitchell, Buyer 

“Excellent, effective, successful.Easy and comfortable working with Janice. Developed effective marketing campaign that got us the desired results. Short time on the market in a buyers market (and I was the seller). Excellent experience.”
Roberta Levine, Seller 

“Janice has been a real professional during the process. She worked with me on professional and personal aspects of the house buying experience. She provided community insights, school information, shopping, and even directions to various places. My entire family enjoys Janice and considers her a friend not just a realtor. I also felt that she had our best interest in mind and helped us make the best choice for us.”
Harold Yeldell, Buyer 

If you loved the unusual and original jewelry, pottery, clothing, paper products and home decor at Equinox in downtown Kennett, then wait til you see the shop in larger digs in the shopping center along Route 1 nearT.J. Maxx. They are carrying Lily Pulitzer, Vera Bradley, and some great yoga clothes. I bought a woven embroidered belt made in Turkey that is soon to become my favorite.

The jewelry is beautifully displayed with lots more room in this new store. Definitely this adds a bit of panache to the row of that includes Famous Footwear, Staples, T.J. Maxx, an eyeglasses store, dry cleaners, tanning and beauty salon, and Superfresh.

If you want to be in highly ranked Unionville-Chadds Ford School district but don’t want to spend a fortune, email jroosevelt@comcast.net or call 610-388-9684 for a computerized list of homes for sale under $350,000. Please leave your full name, best contact phone number and email.

Crayola Factory
30 Centre Square, Easton, PA
“At The Crayola FACTORY, you’ll be immersed in color and creativity - a place where there’s no limitation to creativity and imagination. You can color, draw, paint and create with the latest Crayola products without the worry of cleanup afterwards. Each creative space invites you to play and explore while learning and having lots and lots of fun. See how Crayola Crayons and Markers are made. Learn about the history of the Crayola brand. Explore dozens of interactive projects and activities. This is not the real manufacturing plant, but instead a visitor center that allows the child inside each person to unleash its creative spirit. Each quarter, themes and projects change, giving visitors a variety of projects to create throughout the year.”

Linvilla Orchards
137 W. Knowlton Rd., Media
http://www.linvilla.com“Linvilla Orchards is a 300-acre farm dedicated to agriculture, entertainment and education. We raise our own fresh fruits and vegetables that you can pick yourself or purchase in our Farm Market. Our bakery features our world-famous pies. Visit Pumpkinland, take a hayride thru our fields and orchards, catch a big fish in Orchard Lake, cut your own Christmas Tree or play in our Playland Playground. Our festivals focus on our most popular crops and feature costumed characters, games, contests and music. Linvilla Orchards is The Family Farm for Family Fun.”

Air Ventures Hot Air Balloon Flights Paoli
www.air-ventures.com “Offering hot air ballooning flights over beautiful Chester county Pennsylvania…flight certificates are available for sunrise or sunset. Enjoy a champagne toast and hors’oeuvres after viewing the earth from above. Splash and dash in a pond, or touch the tops of the trees in a unique form of flight. Experience new heights with Air Ventures experienced pilots, professional crew and state of the art balloons! Individual, couple and group rates are available on one hour flights daily.”

The Environmental Protection Agency recognizes that a truly energy efficient home must not only have certain features, but must be inspected and tested to to be sure that everything is in place. If this is done, they will give their prestigious ENERGY STAR certification to the home. The ENERGY EDGE is an important part of these standards.

A Home Energy Rater can provide a miles-per-gallon number to your new home before construction begins. The ENERGY STAR Program requires that a high enough energy rating be achieved that the home will use 30% less energy for heating and cooling than the base comparison house.

If a builder includes the ENERGY EDGE, and includes several items such as high efficiency heating or air conditioning equipment, foundation insulation, or high performance windows, he can earn the ENERGY STAR certification

Many homeowners often complain of leaky windows. In fact, they are holes in the wall so a source of all the leaks in a house, right? Not necessarily. Using advanced diagnostic equipment such as blower doors and infrared scanners however,   windows are rarely a major contributor to an air leakage problem. Although even small window leaks can be a problem to someone who is sitting next to such a window.

All window manufacturers must meet Federal standards for air leakage. There are windows that are less leaky than others, but no brand of window is excessively leaky. The only area of window leakage that is not controlled in a factory is the installation, and in fact many window problems we find are due to improper installation. Most windows have a nailing flange, and manufacturers installations instructions usually call for caulking of the flange to the exterior sheathing.

This is a very important step and it is necessary that your installer understand what is required. The idea is that a continuous bead of caulk is installed around the window where it joins the house so that there is no possibility of air getting around the window flange and into the wall. The caulk bead should first be applied to the window flanges just before installation, then after the window is installed, it should be touched up to make sure that it is continuous on the sides, at the corners, and along sills that may not have flanges. If the window has no flanges, then caulking should be applied under brick molding or other members to again complete the continuous bead of caulk completely around the window. Alternatively, a good grade of tape such as 3-M or Venture red tape, or the new Tyvek tape can be used at the flange, as long as they are installed so that they are continuous.

Manufacturers do not want foam installed around the interior frame-to-rough-opening joint because, despite careful installation, there is a good chance the foam will expand and distort the window frame. A proper caulk bead at installation will do the same job with no danger of distortion.

For more information, call 800-908-7000 or email info@energysvc.com

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