For over 100 years, Smucker’s has been helping make people’s meals, snacks and recipes better. It all started in 1897 when Jerome Monroe Smucker pressed cider from his mill and, shortly after, sold his first jar of apple butter from the back of a horse-drawn wagon. Today Smucker’s offers a broad range of fruit spreads, […]
General Contractor, Frederick May, put us to work this spring at Roger’s Elementary in Wolfe Co. Kentucky. It was great to be back in the mountains where, Max Combs, owner of BES, and technician Rodney Isaacs are from, and even better, had us working with Mark Benham, the Project Manager, from Breathitt Co., where Max […]
Kentucky is famous for three things, horses, basketbll and bourbon, now, in a close third you may find beer. Craft beers are more popular than ever and BES along with Caten/Waller Properties, have just cleared the way, removing any and all hazardous materials from a beautiful “rock house to make room for Rock House Brewing […]
After many decades of service, many pounds lost and many bodies built, Lexington is saying goodbye to the Jefferson Street Fitness Club. Bluegrass Environmental, contracted by owner Glenn Perkins, got a work out in the popular Lexington gym, by removing any and all hazardous materials, such as, asbestos, from the pipes and floors. If you were […]
Bluegrass Environmental and Evergreen Environmental have many things in common. They’re both Environmental companies, they’re both located in Lexington, Ky. and the list goes on and on, but the most important thing they have in common is that they are both owned by Christians, and this week these two companies came together in Columbia Ky. […]
Bluegrass Environmental is pleased to be working, again, with the Lexington V.A Medical Center in Lexington, Ky.. We have done environmental work for the V.A. before and it’s always a pleasure to help keep safe, the men and women that have kept us safe, from any mold, lead and asbestos dangers that still are found […]
There are over 3,000 manufactured products that are known to contain asbestos. Recent reports estimate that over 30 million homes and commercial buildings, within the United States alone, contain some type of an asbestos-containing product. The only way to truly remove the threat of asbestos exposure and its dangerous health effects is to remove all […]
Products containing asbestos should only be handled by a licensed asbestos removal contractor like Bluegrass Environmental Services. Removing asbestos materials in your own home is strongly discouraged. In most cases, asbestos must be removed entirely; however, in some instances asbestos abatement may be accomplished through encasement or encapsulation. Ultimately, the process depends on the location […]
Below is a list of some of the most common products that at some point were manufactured with asbestos. Adhesives, Cements, Mortar, Sealers Adhesives Bonding Cement Caulking Cement Duct Adhesive Fibrous Adhesive Finishing Cement Furnace Cement Insulating Cement Joint Cement Masonry Cement Mastics Mortar Plastic Cement Sealer Topping Cement Welding Rods Asbestos Paper, Rollboard, Millboard […]
Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of wind that circulate at the base of cumulonimbus, or less frequently, cumulous clouds. The column formed typically stretches between the base of the cloud and the surface of the earth in the familiar shape of a cyclone. Tornadoes are a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens on every continent of […]