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Easy Ways to Increase Home Health and Safety
Keeping your home healthy and safe helps you to be prepared in case of emergencies. You're also making sure that the spaces in and around your home are a safe environment for family and friends. Your home is where you want to be able to relax, knowing that you and...
3 Signs of Mold In the Home
Look for These Signs of Mold In The Home Mold can be dangerous to your health and home when it spreads throughout your living spaces. Pay attention to these signs of mold in the home to keep it from becoming a problem for you and your family. 1. Moldy Smell You can't...
Why You Should Order a Pre-Listing Home Inspection When Selling Your Home
When preparing to sell your house, you probably have several tasks to take care of before listing it. One thing that you might not have considered is getting a pre-listing home inspection. Read on to learn why this is a step worth taking and how it can help your real...
8 Ways You Can Heat Your Home More Efficiently This Winter And Save Money
During winter, your expenses increase from the cost of heating your home. But, there are some things you can do to save you money on utility bills while still keeping your home comfortable. Here are a few things to consider to heat your home more efficiently this...
4 Steps to Prepare Your Fireplace for Use
As winter approaches, gathering by a warm fire might seem like the perfect way to spend an evening. However, a fireplace should never be used for the first time without taking some precautions first. Here are 4 steps to prepare your fireplace for use. The Parts of the...
Infrared Thermal Imaging In Home Inspections
You have likely come across the term thermal imaging, especially if you're in the market for a new house. Thermal imaging is a tool that some home inspectors use during home inspections. This technology offers deeper insight into the home inspection by showing...
The Dangers Of Radon In Your Home and What You Can Do About It
What Is Radon? Radon is a radioactive gas that can be found in homes across the United States. Living with high levels of radon poses a risk to your health; one of the long-term dangers of radon in your home is cancer. It's important to know the levels of radon in...
Tips for Creating Healthier Indoor Air Quality
Poor indoor air quality is not good for you or your family's health. Breathing in particles that come from pet dander, dust, pollen, pollution, mold spores, and chemicals may make you sick. If your indoor air is polluted, it can affect your nasal passages, allergies,...
5 Ways to Keep Your Home Cool for Less During the Summer
As summer temperatures rise, so do utility bills as most of us choose to run our air conditioners more often. We have five pieces of advice to keep your air conditioning costs lower than they otherwise would be. Whether it's basic maintenance or strategic positioning...
Top 3 Home Inspection Tips for Home Buyers
Your home inspector plays a crucial role in a successful real estate transaction. If you think of your home inspector as a partner in your home-buying experience, he or she could save the day and help you end up with the home you want. The prospect of getting a home...
Loose Electrical Outlets And Switches
Loose Electrical Outlets, Receptacles, And Switches Cause a House Fire An outlet is lights, switches, smoke detectors, and receptacles. However, many recognize the term outlet as a place to plug in a lamp or another electrical device. According to the US Fire...
Six Tips To Keep You Warm And Save Money
Six Tips To Keep You Warm And Save MoneyThe windows of older homes can be very drafty and if you, like many do not intend on opening them during the winter, purchase window kits and seal them up until summer. 3M and Frost King make a clear plastic film that can be...
AFCI’s Verses GFCI’S
AFCI’S VERSES GFCI’SUNGROUNDED OUTLETSIf you own, rent or are planning to purchase an older home then you have heard plenty of stories around ungrounded electrical systems and outlets. One of those stories is the high cost of updating the branch circuits to grounded...
HVAC Filters and Why You Should Change Them
HVAC Filters and Why You Should Change Them The purpose of the filter in your heating and cooling system is more than just cleaning the air so we breathe better. Its purpose is also to keep the coil (much like a car radiator) clean so the unit...
What Can I Do To Stop Mold Growth
What Can I Do To Stop Mold Growth Control the moisture. Your bathroom may notbe connected tot he light switch that operates the light. So remember to turn the fan when you take a shower. If you do not have a bathroom fan then open a window, the top sash is best...
Black Mold Health Effects
What are the heath effects of Mold? Black mold, black mold, black mold. That is all we here but there are several different molds that are black in color and while their health effects are uncomfortable they are not deadly.Every time we breathe we inhale...
How does mold grow?
How does Mold grow? As mentioned before mold needs four things to grow or produce spores. A food source, such as drywall, wood, fabrics, dead plants or any organic material. Mold requires the right temperature, right moisture content and spores...
What Is Mold?
Mold is a naturally occurring living organism found in virtually every environment. It grows when the humidity is 60% or higher, if there is a substance for it to eat (like drywall), if the temperature is between 40 and 100 degrees, and if mold spores are present....
Methods for Attaching a Deck to Your Home
LedgerLOK versus Lag Bolts Received a phone call today regarding ledger bolts being used for attaching a deck to a house instead of lag bolts. Here is what I found: Many years ago, it was standard practice to attach a deck to a house using nails, and for years, there...
The Cost of a Home Inspection
Home inspectors use many factors to determine the cost of a home inspection. Items such as the finished square footage versus unfinished areas and travel time. Other considerations are: Does the home have a basement or crawlspace? The property's age, the number of...