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Thanks for visiting our home improvement blog! Here you'll find some great information on saving money, staying comfortable in your home, and keeping your family healthy and safe in all seasons and weather. From furnaces to air conditioners to energy audits and carbon monoxide, our blog will keep you up to date.

Top 10 Home Improvements To Help Sell Your Home

Think home improvements will substantially increase the selling price of your home? You may want to think again. Some renovations not only fail to improve resale profits, but could actually detract from your home's overall value. Here are the Top 10 home improvement s that can increase the value of your home and help you sell a little faster.

10. New Windows and Doors
New windows and doors can offer energy-efficiency and are visually appealing, but they don't necessarily translate into a return for you. Your return on investment is only about 35%

Breaker, Breaker... Who's Got the Breaker?

 

Locating a breaker when you have a circuit overload can be a real problem. Usually it’s the darn hair dryer or the microwave that seems to always leave us in the dark.

What's That Funky Smell?

Yo Buddy! We definitely can’t blame that one on the dog. A rotten egg smell coming from our water faucets can happen for a couple of reasons. In this case, it’s happening when using the hot water only, so that means the problem lies within our water heater.

Feeling Dry & Flakey?

Many of you have either portable humidifiers or ones like this one attached to your furnace. This is a whole house humidifier and does require a little maintenance once a year so you can keep your home more comfortable and your heat turned down a little lower.

  This type of humidifier is piped into your homes water lines and it feeds itself so you don’t ever need to fill it. The water runs across a filter pad inside and as the furnace runs, the warm air blows across the pad and brings the humidity up into your home.

Does a Water Heater Need Maintenance?

Water heater maintenance is easy to overlook because the tank just sits there and has no moving parts to worry about. But inside, two things are constantly attacking your water heater: sediment and rust.

Most steel water heater tanks are lined with glass to prevent rust. But the glass lining is never perfect, and the constant temperature fluctuations cause it to expand and contract, causing very small openings. When water eventually penetrates the lining, the tank begins to rust. The good news is, there are ways to minimize the damage.

Alarming News

As wintertime quickly approaches, the thought of your furnace or electricity going out while you are away from your home, cabin, or office, would be nothing short of disastrous! Frozen and busted plumbing pipes can flood a home in an instant leaving thousands of dollars in damage that could have otherwise been easily avoided.

A Freeze Alarm can give you peace of mind and save you countless thousands in repair damages. Here’s how it works.

Concerning Hot or Cold Rooms

Doesn’t it seem like there’s always one room in your home that doesn’t quite act right when it comes to staying the proper temperature?

 You walk over to try and feel any air coming out of the register and find that there’s not enough for even a warm thought. If this is the case, a simple duct booster fan could be your warm, affordable solution.

 These booster fans are just as simple as they sound. Just like this one here, they fit right into your existing heat piping and can deliver twice as much air flow as what you were previously getting.

Wintertime Warmth

A lack of humidity in our homes can cause breathing problems, dry, itchy skin, damage to the woodwork in our homes and feeling all around much colder than we normally should. A “whole house” humidifier is a wonderful solution to feeling better and saving money.

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