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What Can Rust Do For You?

Rust can be a terrible thing for a homeowner. It will eat through your metal roof and siding, it will cause the rebar in your cement to swell and crack the cement, it will make the nails in your walls and roof pop out and cause discoloration where the rusty water...

Preventing Your Windows From Leaking

Have you ever had a home energy audit? You might have paid a professional to do it, or followed a do-it-yourself plan that you found online. Either case, the result might very well have told you about shortcomings in your insulation. The most likely problem in many...

Armor For Your Home

When you think of metal siding, you might get the picture in your mind of a metal shed or a storage location, and this might have been the most common applications in the past. You will find, however, that the price and quality of metal siding has improved greatly...

What’s On Your Floor?

What type of flooring do you prefer? Have you ever considered laminate flooring? You might remember it being used quite extensively several decades ago, but it has gotten some additional interest in recent years, especially because of it being friendly to the...

How To Protect Yourself

Our human bodies are very fragile, and it doesn’t take much to damage something that is vital to your everyday life, especially if you work with chemicals or power equipment. This is why there are many different types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to keep you...

Are You Living In A Greenhouse?

When your home heats up a lot in the sunlight, this might lead to an increased electricity cost in the summer. There are many factors that come into play with this, but a large amount of heat is generated from the sun shining in through your windows. It is the same...

Are Your Receptacles Safe?

Children are very curious, and they will explore things that could get them into trouble. Unfortunately, there are a multitude of things that could prove dangerous to young children inside your home, even when you try your best to keep them safe. Electricity can be...

Why You Should Have A Pool Alarm

Having a pool at your home is the dream of many kids. When the summer days get hot, they enjoy the cooldown that a pool offers, and of course playing games in the pool can offer hours of fun. But this doesn’t mean that you should leave your kids unsupervised in the...

Where Is That Smell Coming From?

Having a strange smell coming out of your kitchen sink can be very disturbing. However, if you have a garbage disposal in your kitchen sink, it is very possible that it is the source of the stink. A very common problem with these types of appliances is that food...

Keeping Elderly Ones Safe

Some of us have parents or other elderly relatives living in our home with us. While this is a very noble thing to do, it is important that our home is a safe haven for them, and not posing an unnecessary risk. Often, the reason why we take in elderly ones are the...

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