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Time to Change Your Furnace Filter
We’ve just started on a new year and that makes it a good time to change your furnace filter. You probably recently cleaned the house over the holidays, kicking up lots of dust that—once in the air—gets collected in the furnace filter. Furthermore, with these cold days the indoor...
Home Maintenance Packages
Handyman Services & Home Maintenance Packages Starting at $165 Per Year! Your home is one of the biggest investments you’ll make in your lifetime, and it needs regular maintenance, along with a few seasonal adjustments, to keep its value and keep things running smoothly. Examples include cleaning gutters, tightening...
When and How to Paint and/or Stain Your Home
More than likely your home has a few things that require stain varnish or paint on a regular basis. Spring is the perfect time to start checking your home for spots that need a little touch up as well as touching up the varnish or paint in places you...
Fire Safety Tips for your Lake Country Home
There are many websites out there that highlight the 5 or 10 most common causes of fire, and I urge everyone to take all fire safety tips very seriously. However, since this is a website about building and home maintenance I wanted to take a minute to highlight some...
6 home decorating updates under $1000
Let’s face it, we can’t always afford to make all the changes we’d like to our homes. If you are anything like us, your Pinterest boards are filled with lots of great ideas just waiting for the budget to get started. But there are lots of small things you...
Attic Ventilation
Original roof ventilation goes back to the 1940’s and 50’s when insulation started being used in homes. This is when the original 1/300 ratio of ventilation was established (more on this later), after extreme moisture problems in attics. In the 1980’s when homes started to be closed up tighter...