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How To Reduce Maintenance Between Tenants
Tenant turnover is where rental properties quietly lose money. It’s rarely one major repair.
Winterizing Your Irrigation System: A Guide
As the crisp autumn air signals the coming winter, it’s time to prepare our homes and gardens for the colder months. One crucial task that often gets overlooked is winterizing your automatic irrigation system.
How Does Subscription Home Maintenance Work?
Buying your first house is one of the most significant financial decisions that you’ll ever make. Years of saving and planning are what got you here. While this can give you a sense of pride and ownership, a house comes with its own set of responsibilities. One of them being maintenance.
Maintenance 101: 4 Ways to Keep up With an Aging Home
Owning an older home does not have to be a challenge. Thankfully, there are resources available to help keep up with an aging home.
How to Winterize Your Lawn Mower
Tweet Months of inactivity can take its toll on your lawn mower if you simply store it without preparing it for the colder weather. Winterizing your lawn mower can be
5 Lawn Sprinkler System Maintenance Tips
It can cost homeowners thousands of dollars to have a lawn sprinkler system installed, with hundreds more spent on repairs when something goes wrong. That, “something goes wrong” can best be avoided by caring for this system on a regular basis.
Furnace Troubleshooting, Tips and Tricks
You wake up earlier than normal one morning and soon realize that your home is colder than it should be. Your overnight thermostat setting is at 62 degrees, but a quick check of your thermometer shows a room temperature of 48 degrees and falling.
What You Need to Know About Snow on Your Roof
A fresh blast of wintry weather has hit your area and once again you’re digging out walkways, your driveway and clearing snow away from your house.
How to Replace Your Toilet
A cracked toilet bowl means one thing: you will need to replace your toilet in its entirety. The toilet cannot be repaired, but it can be replaced and just maybe you’ll want to tackle this job yourself.
How to Replace a Fluorescent Ballast
A fluorescent ballast is an ideal workroom or laundry room lighting fixture, providing much needed lighting in areas where space is at a premium. Such fixtures are fairly simple and can be replaced if evidence of failure has been found.
Should You Power Rake Your Lawn?
Tweet Cooler weather means your lawn may be ready to be power raked. As you finish raking your leaves this fall, you’ll be left with a lawn that will soon
7 Lawn Mower Care Tips
Tweet As fall winds down, you’ll be making your last few passes across your lawn until next spring. Fallen leaves may now be a factor, which means you can either
You Can Pressure Wash Your Vinyl Siding
Tweet How to clean your home’s siding. My neighbor was worried that the vinyl siding he installed on his house last year would not be able to hold up under
When Considering a Home Warranty
Tweet Is a home warranty worth it? If you are buying or selling a home, a home warranty may come up in the price negotiation, something the buyer may want
How to Pressure Clean Your Deck
Your deck provides months of outdoor living pleasure for you and your family, enabling you to entertain guests, spend time with your children or grandchildren and avoid the hassles of dealing with the lawn and bugs just to have access to the great outdoors.
