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Hello,
Today we have some tips about preparing your home for fall and winter. Hope you find them useful.
Thanks for reading,
Susan
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Checklist for Maintaining Your Home
Implement a regular inspection program of home maintenance to help prevent major repairs and to protect your home's value. Remember to disconnect the power source of any electrical or gas system before inspecting, cleaning, or repairing it.
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Prepare for Winter Before It Arrives
By Darlene Dipo
Even though we are still enjoying warm weather and winter seems far away, now is a great time to begin preparing. If you do a bit at a time before winter hits the tasks are not at all overwhelming.
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Prepare Your Home Against Winter & High Energy Costs
"One of the best ways to prepare a home for the winter weather and high energy costs is to take time now, before winter arrives, to do some simple home maintenance.
The first and most important step in weatherizing a home is to stop air leaks. If air leaks aren't stopped first, other weatherizing measures like insulation will be a waste of effort and money. Stopping air leaks in a home can save as much as 40 percent on your home's heating and cooling costs."
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Firewood Buying and Storing Tips
By Fisher Swanson
It's always best to shop for firewood before you need it. Sometimes you can find great deals in the spring and summer, before people are thinking about cool weather and warming their home. Good places to find postings of wood for sale are: Your local newspaper's classified ads. Grocery store, church or post office bulletin boards. Signs posted around the neighborhood.
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We tend to ignore the roof until it begins to leak. Leaks are expensive and can cause extensive damage. Check your roof for possible damage every spring and fall and after heavy winds, hail, or an ice storm.
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Chimney Cleaning and Inspection
If you have a wood-burning fireplace you need to have the chimney cleaned and inspected yearly. Also only burn fully dried hard woods to produce the most heat output. Having the chimney inspected is an expense, but well worth avoiding a fire!
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Check the grading around your house and make sure that the ground is sloping away from your house. Make sure that no plants or dirt comes into contact with the wood siding of your house. Inspect your foundation for cracks and patch any that you find. Also, check the siding of your home for mildew. It can be removed with a solution of 1 part chlorine bleach to 3 parts water. If any of the bleach water gets on to your plants, make sure you rinse them well as soon as possible.
If you have any more tips for inspecting a foundation, please post them.
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Winter Weather Preparedness Tips
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is encouraging everyone to take preventive measures to ensure their safety and reduce the risk of winter storm damage to property.
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Fall Lawn Check Up
By Ellen Brown
As fall approaches, it's easy for lawn care to get cut short by bad weather. After Labor Day, families get busy with school activities and people start turning their attention toward indoor projects, Even the most passionate gardener starts to look forward to a break from yard and garden duties. Fall is a critical time to give your lawn a check up. If you can motivate yourself to spend a little time on lawn care this fall, you'll see it pay off in a lush, green way next spring.
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Preparing Your Garden for Fall and Winter
Tips to prepare your garden for the fall and winter. Post your ideas below!
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September's Garden To-Do List
By Ellen Brown
The shorter days and cooler nighttime temperatures of September are once again signaling that the end of another summer growing season is drawing to a close. It's not officially fall yet, but the tail end of summer is certainly here. As our vegetable crops start to dwindle and our summer perennials start to fade, are garden to-do list can get long quickly if we don't keep on top of things.
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It's not fun, but it's worth doing at least once a year. If your home has a crawl space, crawl around down there and look for bugs and moisture. Be sure to crawl under the bathroom and kitchen and look up at the sub-flooring for watermarks. If you see any then you have a significant leak that needs to be fixed. Also tack up any drooping insulation. If your floor is insulated, be sure cover every inch of your body and wear goggles and a face mask before venturing into the crawl space.
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