Tag: Monthly Home Maintenance Tips

How Is Your Indoor Air Quality?

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. It’s the Holiday Season! Are you entertaining this year? Family coming in for Christmas? Indoor air quality is always important but even more so during these cold weather months when your furnace is on and who knows what may be blowing in your […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For December

Subscribe to the Home Remodeler Blog for home remodeling and maintenance tips. Here are your Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For December: General walk through: Check/add salt to water softener. Check smoke and fire alarms. Change or clean furnace air filter. Check temperature and pressure gauges on boiler. Check windows, storm windows, doors and garage door […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For November

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 the leaves have fallen. Remove leaves from window wells and yard. Winterize […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For July

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 and reseal asphalt driveway, if applicable. Run drain cleaner through all drain […]

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. Check basement for dryness; run dehumidifier and check sump hole and pump, if applicable. Apply water treatment to treated exterior wood […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For May

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 out and filled. Trim trees and shrubs away from roof and siding […]

Monthly Home Maintenance Tips For April

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 hot water heater for proper ventilation. Check/add salt to water softener. Check […]