How To Turn Off Your Home Water System When there is a sudden water-related emergency in your home, such as a pipe that has just burst and is threatening to flood the home, it is absolutely important to quickly respond to minimize the amount of damage that your home will face. Because of that, everyone in your home should know how to turn off the water to your house. The key … [Read more...] about How To Turn Off Your Home Water System
Safe Garbage Disposal Repair
Safe Garbage Disposal Repair Can you hear a grating barrage of noises coming from inside your garbage disposal? Or perhaps the blades won’t budge. Your disposal could be jammed, possibly with some kind of too-hard object that isn’t meant to be shredded up by the blades. Garbage disposals are brilliant machines that quickly and efficiently move organic waste out of the … [Read more...] about Safe Garbage Disposal Repair
Fight foundation problems with water
A good reason to water your foundation is to help stabilize the soils that lie beneath it. Clay in the soil expands when wet and shrinks when dry, making it capable of changing the support structure beneath your home. Thus, your home is at risk of foundation problems if it’s built on clay, especially if you live in an area that has long periods of little rainfall. Soils that … [Read more...] about Fight foundation problems with water
How to throw an energy- and cost-efficient Oktoberfest celebration
You don’t have to travel to Munich, Germany, to enjoy a traditional Oktoberfest celebration this fall. Instead, you can plan on hosting a fun event at your own home, inviting your closest friends, neighbors and family members over for a fun evening of German-style beer, food, music and merriment. Of course, the last thing you want is for your big Oktoberfest celebration to be a … [Read more...] about How to throw an energy- and cost-efficient Oktoberfest celebration
The importance of cleaning your gutters
The weather changes and the falling leaves pile up. They remain in the gutters as the days turn colder and winter sets in. The gutters freeze over and then, with spring thaw, melt. If you’ve ignored your gutters over the last, eventually, they’ll pull away from the house. And that’s when the damage will be discovered. The siding, the foundation and even the landscaping can be … [Read more...] about The importance of cleaning your gutters
