Posts tagged home maintenance
Dave Nichols :: Nursing Your Wood Fence Through a Cold, Hard Winter
5October 25, 2010
. . . Unfortunately, there's a price to pay come spring when the sun reappears and sheds light on all of the deterioration your yard has experienced throughout the winter. This is especially true if you have a wood fence, which can really take a beating in cold, rainy weather. Even worse, much of the damage that occurs to a wood fence during the wintertime tends to fly under the radar. Homeowners often don't even realize there's a problem until months later, when they suddenly find rotting support posts or insect-infested knotholes. [ . . . ]
@SLSConstruction :: Stopping the Killers — Carbon Monoxide & Fire
7October 4, 2010
Unfortunately, during the fall and winter seasons is when we see an increase in fire & carbon monoxide fatalities. Based off the latest estimates, there were over 40,000 Carbon Monoxide cases requiring some form of hospitalization or care, and 5,000 deaths in the last year. And as I mentioned in another article entitled Everything we owned in 2008 there were over 2700 fatalities related to fires. [ . . . ]
@DaVinciRemodel :: A Kick Ass Fall Maintenance List
2September 28, 2010
The Ultra Lite maintenance list is intended to inform DIY homeowners about general home maintenance. The list suggested above is by no means a complete list of items that need maintenance in a home. The list above is only a compilation of maintenance suggestions based on our experience in homeownership, homebuilding and remodeling. [ . . . ]
Freak on Nature :: The Fall Maintenance Edition
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Reading lengthy like some recipe for destruction (or Lindsey Lohan's rap sheet) -- the fall maintenance checklists are just about the corner. And here in the Mid Atlantic area, fall is coming on the heals of a late summer that saw things spontaneously combusting << that's no lie . . . multiple reports I swear. And my feelings tell me that we certainly can expect heavier than regular rainfalls . . . but anyway . . . who knows. [ . . . ]
Troubleshoooting a Chainsaw that Won’t Start :: My Chainsaw and Me
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She wouldn't start, I mean -- I tried and I tried, then I sat her down and I went about tending to other things. OK, I do not use my chain saw enough to think that I have actually earned the right to name it.
. . . But . . . I tried again. [ . . . ]
If only you could drive your house up to the home center
3December 1, 2009
These conditions are due, in part, to the temporal and fading nature of things. Much as a car's odometer rolls with every tenth of a mile accumulated - your home loads on mileage, too, with each passing year. Short of noting proactive discretionary improvements, and extending beyond the mechanical equipment found in your home, all parts in, on or of your home will wear and ultimately fail (if left unchecked). [ . . . ]
