Tag: Monthly Home Maintenance Tips

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For May

Subscribe to the Remodeler TV Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For May: General walk through: check exterior gardens, downspouts and extensions, foundation landscaping. Make sure water drains away from foundation. Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke/fire alarms. Check window wells; make sure they are cleaned […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For November

Subscribe to the Remodeler TV Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For November: General walk through; Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke and fire alarms. Finish fall clean-up: Check gutters and downspouts for any final leaves. Clean and flush all gutters and downspouts after most of […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For July

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For July: General walk through; trim shrubs and weed gardens, check for disconnected downspout extensions. Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke and fire alarms. Change/clean air filter in furnace if using central air. Caulk cracks […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For June

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips for June: General walk through – check exterior gardens, downspouts and extensions, foundation landscaping. Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke and fire alarms. Change air filter, close dampers on lower returns if using central air. […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For May

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For May: General walk through; check exterior gardens, downspouts and extensions, foundation landscaping. Make sure water drains away from foundation. Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke/fire alarms. Check window wells; make sure they are cleaned […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For April

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Spring is finally here! Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips for April: General walk through: Check gutters and downspouts for water back-up. Make sure water properly drains away from foundation. Check for water leaks in basement. Change/clean air filter in furnace. Check […]

How To Improve Indoor Air Quality

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. It was the coldest February on record in many parts of the country! When your family is inside for long stretches and your furnace is always running, indoor air quality can be a concern. Dust mites and other allergens may be blowing into […]

How To Choose A Furnace Filter

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. If there’s a newer car in your garage, chances are it’s equipped with a pollen filter on the climate control system. Shouldn’t the air in your home be as clean as the air in your car? In this segment from the Carrier Consumer […]

What You Need To Know To Keep Your House Warm

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Baby, it’s cold outside! A good indication of homeowners’ concern about this cold snap is the huge response to our last post on keeping your water pipes from freezing. A big part of that equation is a dependable, efficient-running home heating system. In […]

How To Improve Indoor Air Quality

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Indoor air quality is always important but even more so during these cold weather months. Your furnace is always on and dust mites and other allergens may be blowing into your home through your HVAC system. In this episode from the Today’s Home […]