Knowing Your Home: The Visible House
Have you ever wondered what was going on behind your walls? Maybe it is just me, but sometimes I get to thinking about how our homes are like our bodies. There are systems in place to take care of everything that we need to keep getting up out of bed every day. Your home has similar systems; your heating system pumps hot and cold air throughout your home, your soil stack removes used water away from the home and water pipes bring in clean water. As long as everything is tuned up and running as it should, your home continues on everyday pluggin’ along keeping you sheltered and safe from the outside world.
LakewoodAlive has partnered with the City of Lakewood to provide an Open House opportunity for residents to tour a home that has been gutted down to the studs. This unique opportunity can provide a visual of what happens behind the plaster and drywall. It will also provide a wide open view of historic building practices. We will have an expert available to answer your historic building questions as well as city officials who can discuss future plans and available programming. You will have an opportunity to review plans for future work and learn what energy efficiency improvements will be made to help ease the burden of utility costs.
We hope you will join us for this wonderful workshop on Thursday, September 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. at 2147 Dowd Avenue in Birdtown. The workshop will be set up more like an open house. We encourage you to bring your flashlight so that you can really see into the nooks and crannies. There will be a guided tour that begins at 6:30 p.m. that will highlight the historic building practices that were used and their significance.
We are super-geeked for this open house; we hope you will enjoy it as much as we do.
Knowing Your Home is an educational series that is developed through the Housing Outreach Program at LakewoodAlive. The mission of the program is to work with homeowners to connect them to resources so that they are able to maintain and sustain their homes. LakewoodAlive also offers the PaintLakewood! Program, contractor evaluations and one-on-one consultations to help make home maintenance repairs easier. We encourage residents to contact us with any housing issue or need that they may have so that we can work together to find a solution. Visit our website at www.lakewoodalive.com or call us at 216-521-0655.
Allison Urbanek
Allison Urbanek is the Housing Outreach Director for LakewoodAlive. Allison is a housing advocate and enjoys working with homeowners to help make homeownership easier. She and her husband Dave, live in Lakewood and love being a part of the Lakewood community.