The weather outside is getting frightful, and now is the time to prepare your home for the long winter ahead. Winterizing your house now will protect it from harsh conditions and freezing temperatures, and when spring arrives you won’t need to worry about repairing any winter damage. Note, home winterization should not be confused with [...]
During the winter months and dropping temperatures, homeowners often discover that there are easier ways to install an indoor swimming pool in their house. Of course, when the pool is directly related to a frozen pipe, even the exuberance of the children is difficult to ease the feelings of holiday stress that immediately follow the [...]
House fires are very dangerous. But, unlike tsunamis and earthquakes, they are often preventable. Most of us have heard fire prevention rules since we were in second grade, but have buried some of them along with several state capitals and the name of the 25th President (and yes, we had to look that up too). [...]
Halloween often provides a perfect opportunity for youngsters endowed with an over-abundance of energy and an under-abundance of wisdom to make a royal mess of things. Since it’s be a safe bet you won’t find them armed with cleaning materials the following morning, here are some useful cleaning tips. Shaving Cream/Silly String So your car was Black [...]
There’s a dark blot on your carpet. The million dollar question is “Is it a spot or a stain?” When it comes to stuff on a carpet, these terms are not interchangeable. A spot is a bit of dirt or something that can simply be removed, and a stain is a spot with some type [...]
Unless you locked yourself in a walk-in freezer, you’ve noticed that this summer was REALLY hot. Like magic, news outlets began to talk about diminishing outdoor air quality. However, while concerns about ozone and increasing outdoor pollutants are valid, where are you usually when it’s really hot? Inside! Interestingly, indoor air contains between 2 to [...]
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It’s that time of the year again. The time when flowers bloom, allergies increase, people fall in love… and your house begs to be cleaned from top to bottom. We were going to write a painfully long and detailed post guiding your spring cleaning devices into every crevice imaginable when it hit us that all [...]