LakewoodAlive Announces 2016 Knowing Your Home Series

We are excited to announce the kick-off of the third season of our home maintenance and sustainability workshop series, "Knowing Your Home." Knowing Your Home is an education series that is focused on best sustainability and home maintenance practices empowering residents to tackle necessary repairs and improvements.

We will start the season off right with our friend Aaron Westerburg of Inspection Tech on Thursday, February 25 at Buckeye Beer Engine, 7 p.m. The workshop, titled “Planning and Prioritizing Your Repairs” will assist residents with planning their upcoming repair season. He will spend time highlighting the major systems of a house (heating, plumbing, electrical, roofing etc), costs of maintaining and replacing those systems and how to determine when and how to replace them.

Aaron will also spend some time discussing how to plan your repairs for either selling your home or deciding what to take on when buying a home. The workshop is designed to be an over-all approach to deciding what repairs to do, and what to expect when tackling those repairs, ultimately providing you with the proper tools to feel empowered and prepared when dealing with your home maintenance and repair projects.

Knowing Your Home: Prioritizing & Planning Your Home Repairs

Thursday, February 25th 7-9 p.m., Buckeye Beer Engine

Presented by Aaron Westerburg, Inspection Tech

The Knowing Your Home series will continue throughout the repair season and will offer approximately fifteen workshops that will cover all aspects of home maintenance and repairs.

The series will continue in March with two workshops:

Knowing Your Home: Pruning Trees & Shrubs in Your Landscape

Saturday, March 12th 10 a.m.-12 noon, Lakewood Women’s Pavilion

Presented by Bob Rensel and the Keep Lakewood Beautiful Tree Committee

Knowing Your Home: Kitchen Remodeling

Saturday, March 19th 10 a.m.–12 noon, Cleveland Lumber

Presented by Cleveland Lumber & Lou Wenner

Thank you to our generous sponsors: Citizens Bank, City of Lakewood, Cleveland Lumber Company, First Federal Lakewood, Remax Beyond 2000, Third Federal Savings & Loan.

In lieu of charging for these events, we are asking for participants to either consider making a donation to LakewoodAlive or bringing cans of food or non-perishable items for the Lakewood Community Services Center. We appreciate your support.

Please visit LakewoodAlive.com or give us a call 216-521-0655 for a full schedule and more information regarding our Knowing Your Home series or the Housing Outreach Program.

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.