Last year we had a Landscaping Service do our mulching around our yard and our pool area. If you check out my previous post on Swimming Pool Landscaping, you know I especially like to have the landscape around my pool area looking sweet. It is coming up to that season again when my poppies will be blooming, and the pool area will just be lit up with flowers.
The Landscaping service I had last year, Promarklandscaping.com did an awesome job. Had I not come home while they were mulching, I believe there would have been no sign of them. They got all the weeds, put down a layer of triple ground dark brown mulch edged, and were gone in a day.
Throughout the summer and spring, I had minor weeding to do to keep up with those unwanted plants.
I will be using Promarklandscaping again.
Looking for a PA Fencing company? I know I really need a Fencing company in PA really badly as the fence around my pool, really needs some work. If you look at the video in my post about Landscaping Around a Pool, you can see that we have a split rail fence.
The pool landscaping post is well over two years old, and the fencing around the pool, is in need of not replacing, but of repairing. I probably have about 5 sections that are down, that is the horizontal fence posts have fallen out and are laying on the ground.
Below I have compiled a short list of some fencing companies in the area and in the greater PA area.
Well that’s my short Fencing Companies in PA list. I have heard of most of these fencing companies, but have not had any of them do the fencing around my pool or around my yard.
If you know of another Fencing company in PA that belongs on the PA Fencing Company list, please let me know.
Why review Barkoff on a Home Improvement Blog? Well, if there is a product and it can make your home more enjoyable, then that would be a home improvement would it not? I myself hate having a dog that is continually barking. Not only does it annoy those living in the home of the dog, but it potentially could cause some tension between the neighbors as well.
How does BarkOff work?
The Bark Off has a about a 20 foot diameter radius of working area, but is does not need to be attached to a wall or anything, so it can easily be moved to within ear shot of your barking dog or your neighbors barking dogs for that matter.
The Barkoff runs on a 9 volt battery, but I see that you can buy an optional power charger so it could be a direct charge device.
You switch the device on and choose a high or low power setting. When the dog barks, he hears this high pitched noise which disrupts his barking. When he stops barking the sound stops. When he starts barking the high pitched sound only dogs can hear starts again. Your dog quickly learns that the sound only occurs when he barks, and he thereby learns to not bark.
If you have a neighbor dog that is barking, and is within the twenty yards, you can use the bark off to train your neighbors dog too.
Currently, you can get Two Barkoff dog bark trainers for the price of $10 usd plus shipping and handling.
Similar training devices such as anti-barking collars run up to $70, so the Barkoff is a real bargain.
I was on the Ehousehub Twitter this morning and I came across some really cool home improvement blog posts. One in particular was the home improvement blog post, Effective swimming Pool Landscape Design Tips . Reading the post inspired me to go and take a video of my own pool landscaping. Now I did not do our swimming pool landscape design, since we only bought our current home less than three years ago. However, I have worked as a landscape contractor, so I do know that our landscaping, especially around the pool is pretty nice.
The Plants are spaced very nicely, and there seems to be something blooming at all times of the useable swimming pool season. I think it is really important that when you are out enjoying the pool, you can enjoy the natural surroundings.
Since our pool is located in a very remote area, we don’t require a privacy hedge like many pool owners might desire. I have seen many pools that are surrounded by a tall hedge of arbs or bushes. Ours is just surrounded by our yard, which is then surrounded by fields. We do however have a split rail fence that might have been put in by a PA fencing Company or by the previous owners.
When doing your swimming pool landscaping, as with most landscaping, keep in mind that your mature landscape design will not reach its maximum growth for 2-3 years, so be sure that plants are given ample space to grow. Most landscape contractors have landscape design software that allows them to put in many different arrangements of plants to see what the landscape design will look like when all the plants have reached their maximum growth. This also will allow you to see what a variety of landscape designs will look like around your swimming pool.
Questions to ask your Swimming Pool Landscape Contractor
How many years until the plants mature?
Are the plants hardy enough to withstand pool chemicals?
Will there be plants blooming for the entire swimming pool season?
The Garden Groom my cordless Black and Decker hedge trimmer is not. It’s a far better than the corded hedge trimmer I had been using prior to getting the cordless hedge trimmer for Christmas this past Christmas. Last year I must have cut a good half dozen cords while prunning my hedges with the old corded hedge trimmer.
When I first saw the Garden Groom, I instantly fell in love with it. Sure it has a cord, but it is nearly impossible to cut your cord with the Garden Groom..watch the video on Seentontvexpress by clicking the Garden Groom link at the beginning of the post and you will be amazed. Sure you could go out and buy a gas trimmer or a battery powered hedge trimmer like I got fro Christmas, but it still wouldn’t suck up all the trimmings…way cool..
I was thinking about buying a some tools for the yard, and I was thinking about keeping track of all the projects that I have going on around the house. I was going to start a new blog, but we have had ehousehub as a site since 2006, and it has been doing nothing. So I thought instead of coming up with a totally new site, why not put a blog on the site and use it as my home improvement web blog.
What will be found on the Ehousehub blog?
Swimming pool maintenance info
lawn maintenance info
landscape info
carpentry info
project planning
product reviews
tools sale info
coupons
home improvement videos of me clutzing about.
anthing to do with projects that might be accomplished around the home.
Well that is about it for the first inaugral post on the new ehousehub.com home improvement blog.
