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Tyler TX Assisted Living Choices

June 26th, 2011

Tyler Texas Assisted LivingWhen choosing among the many Tyler Texas assisted living facilities it helps to know what value each facility offers.

Some elder care facilities in Smith County focus on the cafeteria menu as their primary selling point. You will find some facilities offer mainly heart healthy meals and others have primarly good home cooking menus that aren’t so stricked on “healthy”.

The niches within the elder care industry are independent living, memory care, heart dialisys care, and several care levels in between.

A new trend in assisted and independent living that allows residence an extended stay is to hire outside help for helping your loved one keep track and take their medication.

For many elderly people that would normally go over to a Tyler nursing home because of their memory issues regarding taking their meds they can now stay a little longer in independent or assisted living with the added help.

The costs associated with Tyler Texas assisted living can be handled by the staff that move your loved one in to their facility. They can help you fill out the required paper work so you get things done stress free and timely.

Going over details of benefits offered at each Tyler facility as well as failures regarding code of conduct will assist in you choosing the best facility.

With any elderly care community in Tyler it is always recommended that you go by during the day and night to meet the care workers that will be the ones primarily responsible for taking care of your loved one.

A big smile and strong handshake while looking at them in the eye will usually tell you all you need to know. If none of the care workers seem to give your surprise visit and greeting the time of day you can usually assume they are hiding something if the very least a guilty conscious.

Many of the questions and concerns surrounding elder care choices in Tyler Texas can be answered by an assisted living consultant. We recommend speaking to a consultant to get started today.

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Living Small in Tyler TX

December 21st, 2010
Small homes in Tyler Texas

A Tumbleweed Home

In the past several weeks I’ve come on a couple of stories about a new trend in the housing market. They’re called tiny houses (or Tumbleweeds) and that is really about as straight forward a description as necessary. One of the primary founders and advocates of this new minimalist movement is the owner of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, Jay Shafer.Jay has been living in a Tumbleweed for around thirteen years now. He not only built his own, but has helped many others design and build similar residences for themselves. Many of the designs are mobile (about the size of a travel trailer), but of a more solid permanent construction. As you might have guessed, there is a philosophy that goes along with choosing to “live small.” Part of Mr. Shafer’s motivation for adopting this lifestyle was his own environmental concerns. Many other people who choose to downsize do so out a desire to avoid being simply a consumer or collector of material goods. It’s a way of dropping out of the rat race of modern materialism and simplifying one’s life.

Now I’m certainly no environmentalist. I live in a modest twelve hundred square foot home, (as a teacher I couldn’t really afford a big house anyway), I teach my son not to “mess with Texas,” and I’m a proponent of commonsense conservation. By that same token, I don’t care about urban sprawl; I’m not interested in, or rather don’t believe in carbon footprints, and I don’t really think that most human activity can affect the earth’s climate long term. What I can appreciate about the tiny house craze is the concept of simplifying life, getting back to basics as it were. Theroux would be pleased I think. Living this lifestyle definitely requires the home owner to decide what it is that’s most important to him or her, and to be content with the little things. In this I think St Paul and St Francis would be pleased.

I should also stress that the point of the concept is not to live poorly. While the houses are indeed small, they are also very nice. The amenities that the tumbleweeds do offer are generally top of the line. A small but nice flat screen television, (if that’s what you want); fits far better into this life style then an older, clunky cheaper one. The homes are also designed to maximize the use of existing space. In this they are very smart. As a parent, there is currently no realistic way for me to adopt this lifestyle. However, for the single person, particularly in their twenties or thirties who wants to live an inexpensive lifestyle this could be an intriguing option. Most models sell for around forty five thousand, if the Tiny House Company builds it. Using the company’s design, costumers can build one for less than half the pre-fab cost.

I think this is clearly a concept for people who have pursuits in life other than career advancement, or raising their income, (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Again it’s all about setting priorities. For more information on the Tumble Weed Tiny House Company, visit their webpage at http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com

Tyler Texas Flooring Installation

October 7th, 2009

One of the biggest eye appealing renovations you can make to a house is to replace the floors. Many people never replace the floors because it is a hard job especially when having to scrape up linoleum tile. Wood flooring materials go for very high prices and so the cost of buying the wood flooring material and paying a Tyler TX wood floor installer and contractor to install the material is outside most peoples budget. Having said all of this discouraging news it can still be done however even if you have a tight budget. If your roof is leaking be sure to get your Tyler homes roof replaced by a company like Advantage Roofing before installing brand new wood floors.

Many people go into a store like Lowes, Home Depot, or Homes Plus and get floors priced. We went into all of these stores and what we found were flooring prices way outside our budget for what we were wanting. Tyler Texas Floor InstallerFloors Plus came out to our house and measured our floors and said they would get back to us on a price but we never heard from them again. Actually about 75% of the contractors we had come out to our house for different job like roofing and other things we never heard from again. I try and be polite and direct as to what I want and I am unsure why so many building contractors have such a weird policy of never calling back.

Well I was a bit frustrated with the prices I had been quoted and the difficulty in getting contractors to follow through until I found a wood flooring store with reasonable prices. I went to Lancaster Texas which is very near Dallas and received some price estimates on some wide plank flooring which seems to be the new trend in wood flooring these days. They had several different wood styles to choose from and even had that etched look on some of them. I was surprised that many of their higher end stuff was priced around $4.50 or less a foot. This was quite a bit less than the $7.50 a foot I was finding at Lowes, Ace Hardware, Homes Plus, and other flooring stores I had visited.

The next step in the flooring process was to find a cheap installer that would do a quality job. I found Eliseo with Texas Floor Installer. He was able to install my floors for much cheaper than I was able to find anywhere else. He used to work for a large wood floor installation company but since then he has went off on his own and can price your floor installation much cheaper than a larger floor installation company. Many of these floor installer companies have a large overhead and a building on the side of the highway. They have to pay for all of that overhead with higher prices to their customers. Eliseo works from his house and has a family owned business where his adult members of his family assists in helping him install the floor.

By using Eliseo you are basically using the same contract labor the larger wood flooring companies in Tyler use but without the added expense. Many of the large flooring material companies in Tyler contract out the labor to people and companies like Eliseo. Why tag on several thousand more dollars to the cost of your Tyler Texas wood floor installation when you have a good recommendation from Tyler TX Directory about a wood flooring installer we have used ourselves with excellent results?

You can learn more about Texas Floor Installer by visiting their Tyler Texas flooring website page.