As energy costs rise, there’s a lot more focus on making our homes more airtight to reduce energy consumption.You can save money when your heating and air conditioning systems run less. At the same time you’ll need to use mechanical ventilation similar to your kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans, to remove stale air and replace [...]
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Winter Home Maintenance Checklist
Like bears who hibernate through the winter, we tend to spend more time inside our homes during the winter months. We hope you were diligent in preparing your home for winter with our earlier checklist as this month we’re focusing on things inside your house, things we often forget about with the hustle and bustle [...]
Holiday Safety Tips
We love holidays and most of us try to do too much and that’s when things happen. If you don’t have enough time, pick half your decorations to put up and leave the others for next year. There aren’t any rules about how many decorations you need and if you’re worried about disappointing the kids, [...]
Home Safety and Fire Prevention
October is fire prevention month so it makes sense to review some of the statistics around fires and the home. More than 500,000 residential fires each year are serious enough to be reported to fire departments. 4,000 people die each year in home fires. 90 percent of residential fire deaths and injuries happen in one [...]
10 Safety Tips for Summer Fun at Home
At Mr Handyman we tend to focus on your home and helping you with maintenance, repairs and small remodeling projects. We value your business and the ability to develop long term relationships with you … so we wanted to offer tips to keep you and your family safe this summer. Summer is when we think [...]
Update on Corrosive Drywall / Sheetrock
We’ve heard about recent quality problems with Toyota cars. We’re not surprised to get a postcard for a recall on our cars and with only a few car manufacturers, they’re able (required?) to keep track of owners and send out recall notices. Our homes are stick built, using 1,000s of pieces of wood, copper, etc [...]
Our Homes: How Safe are They?
People have always considered their home to be a safe haven, where we eat, sleep and relax with our families. We take for granted that our homes are safe but how do we know this? We’re living longer so we expect to see more illness but how do we account for increases in childhood diseases [...]
Lead Paint Statistics You Can’t Ignore
Like you I’m a home owner and a parent. I also own a handyman business so I’ve been struggling with the the EPA’s new ruling for Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP Rule) which takes effect April 22, 2010. It’s too soon to tell how the construction and real estate industries will respond, even with fines [...]
EPA Lead Safe Certification
My Handyman of Lower Bucks County received their EPA certification to perform lead safe Renovation, Repair and Painting (RPP) projects in homes, child care facilities, and schools built before 1978 must be certified and must follow specific work practices to prevent lead contamination. Effective April 22, 2010, anyone performing work for pay must be certified. [...]
New EPA Rules for Lead Safety
Beginning in April 2010, strick new EPA rules go into effect for all renovation, repair and painting projects in homes built before 1978. The rules focus on lead present in paint sold prior to 1978. Lead if swallowed or breathed can poison people, and young children are especially vulnerable.
Damages children’s nervous system causing developmental and [...]
Dave Provost
Bucks County Handyman
(215) 710-0446
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