Hey, it’s blowing my own horn a bit, but I recieved a nice testimonial from a customer I’ve had for 30 or so years and I wanted to share it.

This is from Rona from Cambridge:

“Dennis Foley has helped me renovate a small Queen Anne house in North Cambridge over the past thirty years.  He has installed garbage disposals and dishwashers; he has gutted and rebuilt the kitchen, two bathrooms, and assorted other rooms; he has replaced hot water tanks and toilet stacks, installed a wood-burning stove, and reclaimed a front porch – so I guess you can say that he has done it all – even including the kitchen sink!

Dennis is particularly creative in solving problems encountered in old houses – somehow, he has always been able to find relatively simple solutions to what seem to be insoluble problems.  He understands budgeting constraints and he has always been willing to think through alternative approaches and to identify trade-offs that can help lower costs.  I have long relied on his judgment about where the money needs to be spent on any given project.

The quality of Dennis’s work has never varied – the plumbing doesn’t leak, the windows don’t leak, the chimney doesn’t leak.  Those are strong statements since some of the work is now twenty to thirty years old.  He has always been honest and straightforward and accountable and most importantly, accessible in an emergency.  I wouldn’t trust my home to anyone else.”

This is the reason for my tag line, “A Name You Can Trust!”. I may not always be perfect, and I have been wrong a few times, but you can trust we always have YOUR best interests at heart.

On top of that waste of money is the environmental disaster that bottled water is. That’s right, a disaster. If you fill one of those small bottles close to 1/3 full of oil, that will represent how much oil is consumed in the manufacture and distribution of that bottle. That’s crazy, especially when you think of how much we rely on foreign oil and all it’s attendant problems. look up bottled water on Wikipedia and read down to the environmental costs of all this bottled water consumption. Your throwaway water bottle contributes to that.  Plus, those bottles are clogging our landfills and showing up as pollution islands in the ocean. These bottles will last for thousands of years. Google water bottle landfill and read some of the articles. It’s amazing.

You can have an under counter water filter in your home and buy a refillable water bottle to carry with you. I use a stainless steel one that will last forever and is easily cleaned. It would actually be better than the soft drink companies filter, because they use reverse osmosis, which wastes 3 gallons of water for every gallon produced. That’s crazy too, and we won’t install them for that reason. We can install an undercounter filter in your kitchen,

a whole house filter and also a  chlorine removal shower head.

It makes sense in so many ways that I’m surprised everyone doesn’t have one!

In my house I also have an Instant Hot water dispenser, so I can make one cup of tea or coffee without using a coffee pot or boiling a pot of water. The water for the instant hot is filtered, so it tastes great as well.