This is the second of two installments of creating an efficient home maintenance schedule. Check out the first post here. As a homeowner, you can prevent a large majority of tomorrow’s problems by maintaining your home today. Regular home maintenance can boost your property value, reduce stress, and reduce the amount of money you spend on minor and major home repairs. If … [Read more...] about Preventive maintenance calendar: annual home maintenance
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10 small steps to get more peace at home
In her new book, “Shouting Won’t Help: Why I — and 50 Million Other Americans — Can’t Hear You” author Katherine Bouton says “The sad truth is that many of us are responsible for our own hearing loss,” caused by “the noise we blithely subject ourselves to day after day.” So much of this noise is right inside your house. Not only can it physically impair your hearing, but it can … [Read more...] about 10 small steps to get more peace at home
Preventive maintenance calendar: monthly home maintenance
As a homeowner, you can prevent a majority of tomorrow’s problems by maintaining your home today. Regular home maintenance can boost your property value, reduce stress and reduce the amount of money you spend on minor and major home repairs. Whether this is your first home, or you need to start a new regimen of good home maintenance habits, it’s time to learn what to maintain … [Read more...] about Preventive maintenance calendar: monthly home maintenance
Pros and cons of induction ranges
Induction ranges are all the rage in kitchen upgrades today. Home makeover shows love them! You can’t flip the channel on your TV without seeing a shiny new kitchen fitted with an induction range, so who could blame you for dreaming of putting one in your home? The process of induction happens by directly heating a cooking vessel instead of allowing heat to transfer from coils … [Read more...] about Pros and cons of induction ranges
Induction cooktops: an introduction to efficiency
It seems cooking on induction cooktops is all the rage these days. Its combination of technology, design and energy efficiency has induction cooking poised to take over from traditional gas or electric cooktops. But what exactly is induction cooking and how does it work? What is induction cooking? Simply put, induction cooking is any cooking process utilizing the process of … [Read more...] about Induction cooktops: an introduction to efficiency
