Home Maintenance Tip: Repair Your Torn Window Screens
If you like to open your windows to enjoy the spring weather, it’s time to check your window screens for holes. Even small holes can provide an opening for mosquitoes, flies or yellow jackets to enter your home. Getting bitten by a mosquito while you sleep is not fun! Holes that don’t exceed 3” in […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Clean Your Concrete Driveway
Besides keeping your front yard manicured, cleaning your concrete driveway can improve your home’s curb appeal. Concrete is porous and will collect dirt over time. To clean your driveway, first sweep or blow loose dirt and debris off of your driveway. Next, remove any oil stains with kitty litter or saw dust by covering […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Clean and Seal your Wood Deck
Decks add to the value of your home. To maintain that value, wood decks need maintenance. Now that spring has arrived, it’s time to get your deck ready for those summer cookouts. First, sweep or blow off any leaves or debris on your deck. Then apply a wood deck cleaner following the directions for […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Get an Air Conditioner Check-Up
Winter has slowly turned into spring and summer will be here soon. It’s time to service your air conditioner check-up before summer rolls in with those hot, humid days. You may wonder what a typical pre-season air conditioner check-up involves. A service technician will likely perform the following activities: Check for proper refrigerant levels. Clean […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Breathe Easier and Protect Your HVAC Equipment
Changing the HVAC filter for your heating and air conditioning system is a chore that is easy to forget. Yet, it is one of the most important ways to maintain the health of your family and the health of your expensive equipment. Clogged filters don’t allow adequate air to circulate through your heating and air conditioning […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Too Much Mulch Can Harm Your Foundation
Mulch is a great way to keep moisture in the soil, moderate soil temperatures and keep weeds from getting out of control. Mulch can also prevent erosion of the topsoil allowing rainwater to enter the surrounding soil. But problems can occur when too much mulch is used. It’s not helpful for your plants and […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Prune Shrubs and Trees to Protect Your House
Besides presenting a neat, pleasing and welcoming look for your house, there are plenty of reasons to Prune shrubs and trees that are adjacent to your house. Overgrown trees and shrubs can damage your house. 1. Even though building materials such as siding, brick and trim, are expected to get wet from rain and from […]
Home Maintenance Tip: Clean Your Gutters to Protect Your Foundation
You may be wondering what your gutters have to do with your foundation. Gutter function to direct rain water from the roof to downspouts that discharge the water away from the house foundation. When gutters are full of leaves and other debris, rain water from the roof can’t enter the gutters. Instead, rain water running […]