Norton West and Co

11/15/2015

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"Ïf it ain't broke, don't fix it!" This is what I heard from a home owner recently! How does this apply to home repairs, your car repairs, your boat repairs? ... The adage goes, "...an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Surely, if Benjamin Frank...
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11/14/2015

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11/14/2015

""Ïf it ain't broke, don't fix it!"" This is what I heard from a home owner recently!

How does this apply to home repairs, your car repairs, your boat repairs? The adage goes, "...an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Surely, if Benjamin Franklin was still here today, he'd fix it before it breaks.

So, your father gave you this sage advise before you owned a home or car. Sage, my foot! Do not extrapolate this into your approach to a life perspective.

Why this has very limited benefit for your life and approach to keeping life and physical assets functioning:
1. It is well documented that PREVENTIVE Maintenance cost less over the product life-cycle than waiting until something breaks down and then fixing it. This involves "lost opportunities."" You are on your way to your wedding and your car breaks down because you ignored the oil leak showing on your driveway. You are 20 nautical miles off-shore fishing and your outboard quits. You "saved"money this year by skipping the spring tune-up. You toilet just overflowed down through the floor into the condo below you and caused massive water damage and mould drew in the walls. You ignored the funny squeaking sounds coming out of the toilet lately.
2. Preventive maintenance is standard best practice in any commercial property setting or commercial marine setting; however, home owners do not commonly treat their largest lifetime asset (their home) with the same respect that you do your car maintenance or your office building maintenance. It is time to get hooping!

Put it on a Preventive Maintenance Plan to SAVE MONEY. We can Help
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40 years experience with residential, commercial repairs and remodeling. Norton West, our founder, is educated as an engineer and has an artist's eye for color, texture and design. Our specialty service is Home Preventive Maintenance Plans which provide peace-of-mind and better resale value

07/09/2015

Here’s a favorite post of ours from the past: On my off days, I am going fishing!
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01/08/2015

Here’s a favorite post of ours from the past: Get your imagination working. Your next house...or tree house.
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12/13/2014

Do not take my word for it. Truth is you can pay now for regular home maintenance or pay MORE later when there is an emergency like a roof leak of water damage or a break-in to your home because you haven't done maintenance on old faulty home entry locks. We are setup to handle your home maintenance on a schedule. Outsource your honey-do list to us and relax while you are saving money. http://nortonwestandco.com
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Preserve home value by following maintenance schedule A common reason many people to rent rather than buy is home maintenance. When the roof leaks or the air conditioner stops working, they like knowing they can call the landlord or property manager to remedy the situation. Head up to your attic and…

11/29/2014

Color, texture and design. We change the way you look at things. Reimagine how you use interior space, then work with us to reimagine your kitchen or bathroom design. This is how we can help. Ask for an estimate today.

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11/01/2014

Pay attention to the skilled jobs comments here. We have a long time mismatch between the open jobs going begging and the people laided off from old technology manufacturing job who do not seem to have the ability to retrain at this point in their lives and our govt and educational institutions are not offering what is needed..."The recruiting specialist Express Employment Professionals said there are now acute shortages of IT workers, systems analysts, cybersecurity experts, auditors, compliance officers, accountants, automated-mill operators, machine maintenance technicians, and welders, across much of the United States.
"We're getting multiple orders in manufacturing. They're hiring by the tens, twenties and hundreds," said the group’s chief executive Bob Funk.
It is a split-level jobs market. Huge numbers of people have been left on the scrap heap by the effects of the Great Recession, the result of skills wastage and hysteresis, or overtaken by technology. Many of them will never get a job in their lives again. This is a social tragedy – and it is worldwide – but it is not something that the Fed can treat with monetary stimulus.
It is structural, not cyclical, to use the jargon. Janet Yellen has bent over backwards to draw as many of these people as possible back into the system, but she can only do so much...."
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Photo: Alamy The Third Taper Tantrum has been postponed, perhaps. It has not been averted. The US Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten. Dallas Fe

10/31/2014

Some new ideas to improve your home security system. Technology at its best.
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10/05/2014

So what is a Home Maintenance Plan and how can it save you money and bring you Peace-of_mind?

Put your home preventive maintenance on a monthly schedule to save money, gain peace-of-mind, and boost your home resale value. We cover most of Cumberland County and Northern York County in Southern Maine. We visit once a month on a per-arranged schedule for 12 months. You prepay the annual subscri…