Fireplace Maintenance
A fireplace can provide warmth to a room and can increase aesthetic appeal. Here are some tips to ensure that your fireplace remains in good working condition and keeps burning safety. Hire a professional to sweep the chimney at least once a year if you use your fireplace often. Every 3-5 years if the unit…
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Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Maintenance
Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are essential home safety equipment that help minimize the risk of smoke and poison gas to humans by alerting their presence. Here are some tips to ensure that your alarms remain in good working condition. Check and test your alarms every month to ensure that they are in good working condition….
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Flexable Duckwork A Problem
Old-school ribbed or flexible ducts are a bad idea. Flex hose can tear on nails or become compressed, kinked, or bent. It’s also dangerous : in dryer exhaust ducts, lint can collect inside the ribbing and cause a fire. The best exhaust paths are made using solid, smooth ducting. Ideally, you want metal ducting that…
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The Best Way To Deal With Mice
Mice find their way into home looking for 2 things; warmth and food. Cold weather often drives them indoors to find shelter, and our homes look that much more enticing if they can find a food source. They gen in through cracks and anywhere there’s a gap: around vents, wires, pipes, windows and doors. Mice…
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Get the Most Savings from Your Ceiling Fan
Buy an Energy Star -certified fan. These models are more than 50% more energy efficient than conventional models. That’s money in your pocket every time you use it. Turn it off when you leave the room. Remember how fans work? They don’t cool air, they cool people. So unless you’re in the room, you won’t get that…
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How to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Clean out contaminates Clean up mold ; use nontoxic cleaners; use low- or no-VOC paint, caulk, and adhesives; and store solvents in the garage. Hire a reputable dust-cleaning company to clean furnace ducts every year or two, especially after a renovation. You’ll amazed when they show you the before-and-after shots of your ducts. (make sure…
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Handling Asbestos
An asbestos removal contractor can inspect products in your home to confirm whether or not they contain asbestos. If they find asbestos, and it’s intact and not deteriorating, you have the surface sealed so the fibers will not be released into the air. If the product containing asbestos is protected behind walls or otherwise isolated,…
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How Dangerous Is Mold?
Mold doesn’t just look bad, it’s bad for you and your home. Here’s why you need to prevent moisture problems around the house. You know those wooden studs that are keeping your biggest investment standing? Mold lives off the cellulose wood fiber in those studs. If you get moisture on those studs and a mold…
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The Best Furnace Filters
I teamed up with 3M to make the best furnace filter on the market : Filtrete air filters. These filters catch 99.9% of contaminants in the air– mold, bacteria, pet dander, dust mites, and other allergens– so you and your kids are not cleaning the air with your lungs. They also allow better air movement…
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How Long Should You Run a Bathroom Fan?
Most People don’t have a clue how long it takes a fan to remove all that moist air you’re creating every time you have a shower. They towel off, brush their teeth or shave, and flip off the fan when they leave the bathroom. I’ve heard experts say the exhaust fan needs to run for…
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