Summer Home Maintenance Checklist
Here’s a home maintenance schedule to help you and your home get through the summer no matter the climate where you live. Check off our summer home maintenance checklist to keep track…
Keeping cool will entail some work – stay indoors with this summer home maintenance schedule:
Inspect ceiling fans making sure the blades are well balanced and rotating in the right direction for proper cool air dispersal.
Repair stuck or sticking windows and doors.
Spray lubricant or silicone to sliding window tracks to withstand the constant opening and shutting. But first apply a good degreasing cleaner to the track, …
When you go to sell your home, you will find that potential sellers are very interested in your bathrooms and kitchen. This is because the kitchen is a central meeting and gathering place in any house and a fair amount of time is spent in the bathrooms as well. Additionally, the guest bathroom needs to look nice as all your guests will use it and it is a reflection of you.
Our concern during the redecoration has been limited to the living room and the bedroom, ignoring the bathroom completely. It was usually only after the tiles behind the tub ballooned into a mess that the homeowner would pay attention to it. Nothing, however, ever remains the same. Bathrooms are not considered a corner of the house which can be ignored anymore. The idea of a bathroom has gone through an immense change in people’s mind lately.
For most homeowners even the simplest repair may seem daunting. They can be baffled by something as routine as changing a light bulb. Small wonder now that we are converting to fluorescent lamps from the old incandescent, in an effort to go “Green.” They don’t even follow the same rating system they we are all familiar with. The question becomes “where to begin?” But this article isn’t about light-bulbs, it’s about stepping back, taking a deep breath and putting your brains together with your muscle to tackle the basic home maintenance tasks that most of us must cope with routinely. …
Residents of any house must be ready to face the challenges of any emergency. The residents must prepare themselves accordingly. There may be an emergency due to some plumbing disaster. You must take necessary actions and do essential security measures to know how to avoid plumbing disasters.
Getting home at the end of a long day normally means that you are tired out and don’t want to have to deal with anybody. All you want to do is to shut the door behind you and not hear or see anything. Whatever is happening on the busy street outside should stay there, but sometimes – especially if you live in an older home – insulation might not be your friend. You might have to consider sealing a window or two at the least.
Remodeling your entire bathroom can be an extensive and costly task. Thankfully, there are many small updates that can be made that will make just as large an impact on the look and function of your room. These small updates require little time, little knowledge of home improvement and won’t burn a hole in your pocket.
Like taking care of yourself and staying in shape, taking care of a home is much the same in that it requires constant dedication and a long-term focus. In some areas across the country homes are subject to some of the hottest and most humid summers in the nation, whereas in other areas it is the cold and snow that tend to be bad. Other natural elements that act to degrade a home’s exterior are UV rays from the sun, rain, wind and natural erosion.
Now that the federal government’s efforts at tinkering with regard to the marketplace for affordable homes has started to show its effects, we are faced with a glut of cheap homes in the United States. Complicating matters is the fact that unemployment remains very high, so people who might otherwise absorb that supply are still unable to afford to buy any of the cheap houses for sale.
