Utilities
- Town Transfer Station – annual fee
- Town of Amherst – water & sewer
- WMECO / Eversource – electricity
- Comcast – Internet service
- USA – individually contracted trash, recycling, compost pickup
- Surner Furnace – oil delivery
- natural gas – Red Gate not plumbed for natural gas
Local Suppliers
- Summerlin – for flooring
- Cowl’s – local hardware, paint, etc.
- Native Plant Trust / Nasami Farm – native plant nursery
- stones – Delta Sand & Gravel
- Wagner – woodchips
Services
- pests
- Complete Pest Control – Stanley; semi-annual termite bait, mouse bait, inspections
- Rocky from Problem Wildlife – bat-proofing, 2019-2020
- Roof – replaced 2020; annual maintenance Shumway Roof
- Shumway Roofing through 80s …
- replaced with composite by Young Roofers …
- switched back to Shumway in 2020
- Basement systems
- Surner Furnace – Furnace, Oil Tank, HVAC, Heat Pump; annual furnace servicing; oil re-supply
- sump pump – Leader; became DryZone Basement
- radon
- appliance repair
- Amherst Glass – window replacement; conversion to double-panes; etc
- Jay Watson – construction projects
- UMass students – spring clean-up, etc.
- Green Man / Dan Griffith – stonework … Matt Essig grandson taking over
- trees – Bartlett
- locks – Amherst Lockworks
- chimney – Geoffrey Kensweth, the Chimney Sweep 413-626-9134
- plumber
- Western Mass Rotorooter – Mark Dansereau – snaking front kitchen
- real estate agent 2012 – Christine Lau
- inspections 2012
- general inspection – Harvey Sansoucy at Friendly Inspections
- radon inspection – Ahearn
- air quality & mold – Forbes & Wheeler
- lead inspection – none. Ann Crochiere, Aclin Inc., lead testing.
- chimney – Steven Sosz masonry evaluated chimney ; fine shape
- yardwork, household stuff:
- UMass Jobs Board
Major Work
- 1980s – sunroom – Wright Builders
- ? – furnace replaced
- 2011 – Leader Basement sump pump system installed; water heater replaced
- 2012 – renovations / Handyman Hank Barstow
- 2012 – chimney cleaning / Geoff the Chimney Swift. Geoff@thechimneyswift.com
- 2014 – Conway study
- 2015 – pink bathroom floor / marmoleum from Summerlin Floors
- 2015 – back bathroom sliding door – Bill Johnson
- 2018 – American Installations – vapor barrier in basement crawl spaces; insulation elsewhere
- 2018 – oil tank replaced; Surner
- 2017 – entry hall re-tiling / Teagno
- 2019 – chimney re-built / Chris Domian, Domian Masonry
- 2019 – heat pump / Surner
- 2020 – roof replaced / Shumway
- 2021 – basement remodeled / Jay Watson
- basement floor polished
- 2023