Archive for Home Maintenance
Deck Restoration
While a deck can add style and a comforting place to entertain, it is far from a maintenance free addition. The proper maintenance is necessary to protect the life and appearance of your deck. It is a common misconception that pressure treated wood, which is the wood most often used for decks, requires little maintenance. [...]
Simple Understanding of Insulation
Most Homeowners don’t really understand how important the insulation is needed to give you comfort and reduce those energy bills in your home. Below is some simple info on insulation. How Insulation Works You need insulation in your home to provide resistance to heat flow. The more heat flow resistance your insulation provides, the [...]
Storing your Lawn Equipment for the Winter
How many people actually maintain their lawn equipment and store them properly before the winter season hits. In this article, I will show you how to perform some common routine maintenance on your gas powered mowers, weed trimmers and spreaders to insure they will operate properly for next spring. Mowers Fill the gas tank on [...]
Cleaning your Stainless Steel Appliances
Stainless steel has become very popular in many households these days. If you have this metal alloy that has become popular for sinks and appliances, you have a great surface that doesn’t corrode or rust easily. Stainless steel is easy to sanitize and clean. It actually isn’t stain-proof, it simply stains less than other steel. [...]
Preparing your Fireplace prior to Winter
With Winter around the corner, now is probably a good time to get that fireplace in shape for this season of sitting by the fire with a good book, spouse or significant other. Even with our mild winters here in the Dallas Fort Worth area, the Chimney Safety Institute recommends that homeowners who light fires [...]
Fall Chores can be Healthy
It’s time for the Fall season, which means the annual chores need to be done. Many of us put these chores off as long as possible. From raking, to cleaning the house, to splitting firewood, to getting ready for the holidays, these tasks need to get done. Many of these fall chores are physically exhausting. [...]
Hidden Reason to get a Home Inspection
Just another example of why you should get a home inspection prior to spending your hard earned money on your dream home. As you can see by the picture, a shoddy repair job would have given a few clues something wasn’t right. As a buyer of a house, what would you have done next? Part [...]
Draining a Water Heater
Very few homeowners realize the need to drain a few gallons of water from your water heater twice a year. Regardless of the type of water heater you have, gas or electric, water heaters can develop a build up of sediment at the bottom of the tank. This build up can cause the water heater [...]
The Truth about Replacing Windows
I’ve listened to some outrageous claims from window replacement companies. The usual sales tactic is how much return on your investment by replacing your windows you’ll get. The fact of the matter is the new windows could take anywhere from 13 to 20 years to receive your investment back. Unfortunately, a lot of consumers believe [...]
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning-is your Family Safe
If you have fuel burning appliances in your home, you owe it to your family to have CO detectors installed. Carbon monoxide detectors are great devices to use when fuel-burning appliances are used in the home. They can be very useful for keeping watch on the CO levels in the home. Carbon monoxide (CO) can [...]
