A Home for All Seasons Part 3: Fall

Fall is a busy time to get your home ready for winter. This third installment of our four-part series takes delves into the tasks of autumn. In warmer climates, fall doesn’t require much, but here in the mountains we need to get our homes and...

A Home for All Seasons Part 2: Summer

Summer is the time for beautiful gardens and landscapes. Just like nature, your home flows with the seasons. Each season has a unique set of tasks that help keep things looking and working their best. Planning routine home maintenance tasks for the right time of year...

A Home for All Seasons Part 1: Spring

Springtime has its own set of tasks, from cleaning to maintenance. For some folks, home maintenance can be a mysterious and daunting set of tasks. At times it seems like a homeowner’s work is never done. What to do? You can’t ignore it. In a home, things...

Electrical safety tips every homeowner should know

Electricity has a “dark side” that can injure or kill you if you don’t respect it Electricity is something we don’t think about much. In fact, we take  for granted that it is there for us when we need it. Most importantly, we rarely...

How to avoid accidental home disasters

Accidental home disasters can be very costly. Many are preventable. This is the time of year that natural disasters – hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, to name a few – are on many people’s minds. There’s another type of disaster that most...

How to protect your home from lightning

Lightning strikes can do some serious damage to homes. What is lightning? It’s a visible jolt of static electricity that can occur within a cloud, cloud-to-cloud, or between a cloud and an object on the ground. How serious a threat is lightning?...