Quick Fix: Clear Away Soap Scum With Half of a Lemon Soap scum on your shower door can quickly build up and leave your shower looking dingy. And while there are a number of good cleaners on the market for tackling this nuisance, a simple, all-natural solution may be right in your kitchen. Here are tips from Better Homes [...]
How to Maintain Your Water Heater It can be easy to take your water heater for granted — until it stops working and you wind up in a chilly shower. Worse yet, it could stop working and you end up with water all over the floor. Thankfully, a hot water heater does not require [...]
Take care of your tools, and they’ll take care of you. That’s solid advice if you consider that well-maintained tools may make outdoor tasks easier (just try slicing through tough sod with a dull shovel). By properly maintaining your yard tools, you may be able to use them for years. Follow these basic tips for caring for your [...]
After a long, hard winter, spring is finally, hopefully, maybe even desperately, expected to arrive. Here are some home maintenance tips to help welcome the new season. Weatherstripping The Department of Energy (DOE) says weatherstripping the windows on your home is an easy and effective way to help save money on your energy bill. Weatherstripping is a [...]
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, when we set our clocks back an hour. Many of the devices we use to tell time will make that change automatically, but, of course, you’ll have to manually adjust some outliers: wall clocks, clock radios, microwave and stove clocks, car radio clocks, wrist watches, digital [...]
Come Labor Day, after a few months of outdoor fun in the sun, you may start to think about moving indoors again. The kids have headed back to school, leaves are starting to turn color and the days are getting cooler and shorter. During this time when summer is winding down, but autumn hasn’t quite [...]
Below is a home maintenance check list offering spring cleaning tips and advice to get your home's systems in good working order for the upcoming warmer months. Have your air conditioning system professionally serviced. Change/clean HVAC air filters. Clear debris from around the outside air conditioner and remove the cover if applicable. Inspect windows and [...]
