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Warm & Dry Bathrooms


Ever wonder what is was like a hundred years ago when homes didn’t have central heat or plumbing? Bathrooms remain a luxury for millions of people around the world while most Americans can take a nice, hot shower (or bath) every day.

Our bathrooms take good care of us, so we should take time to keeping them working properly, to protect our homes. We make lots of short trips to the bathroom so this room gets more wear and tear than any other room in our house. Your bathroom has many moving parts – the sink (or maybe 2), the toilet and most have a shower, bathtub or both.

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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 [...]

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Winter Home Damage: Find, Clean & Repair


Spring is a beautiful time of year with new, fresh colors outdoors and the birds chirping to wake you up in the morning. For many of us it means we can get out in the garden and do what we love, working in the dirt and making things grow. Spring is about new things, new [...]

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Umbrella’s and Staying Dry


When it’s raining and you need to go out, you’re likely to pull out your raincoat or an umbrella. Just like an umbrella protects you from getting wet, the roof of your house directs the rain to the edges of the roof. Siding is like a raincoat providing a barrier so that water runs down [...]

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Basement Flooding & Cleaning Up


Most home owners assume their home is water tight, until the water gets in. If your home is normally dry, the water is coming in due to water rising in the ground surrounding your home, below the basement floor and in the soil pressing against your foundation walls. This water is under hydrostatic pressure and [...]

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Home Emergencies: Shutting off the Water


Water emergencies are the number problem home owners have to deal with. Whether water is coming in from outside, or there’s a plumbing leak inside your home … you want to handle water problems quickly. The reason? Water or high levels of moisture can continue to cause damage, often hidden damage, which increases the risk [...]

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Flashing Keeps Your Home Dry


Flashing refers to the material that seal seams where building materials meet. You always want to direct water down to the groud so it doesn’t get into your home and cause damage. It’s important as water damage remains invisible for years and  repair costs increases as the scope of the damage gets larger. You should [...]

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Doors, Windows & Weep Holes?


Great care is taken in home construction to keep the water out (or inside the shower, tub or sink). From the peak of your roof, shingles are laid down in an overlapping fashion to keep water flowing down … and the same is true of siding. You might be more aware of gutters or rain [...]

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Water Damage: Doors that Lead to Decks (Part 6)


Every exterior door is vulnerable to water damage. They are exposed to rain falling straight down, to water coming off the roof when there aren’t gutters or a rain diverter and there is splash back from the step just below the door, generally just 8 inches lower than the door threshold.
Many home owners think today’s [...]

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Water Damage: Front Doors and Splashback (Part 5)


Front doors play an important role in the curb appeal of your home. They reflect the personality of the house, along with the family that lives there.
The challenge for us today is we rarely use our front doors. They are a legacy from the days when homes lined streets and we entered a house from [...]

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