Maintenance
Winterizing Your Seasonal Home
November 13, 2012 2:03 pm Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Maintenance, SeasonalIt’s a necessary task for any seasonal home owner, and you still have time to get it done: preparing your seasonal home for the rigors of winter. Properly planning now can help you avoid damage and expensive repairs in the spring. The best preparation is to develop a checklist of tasks and then follow it [...]
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Spiders! Making Your Home Their Home.
November 9, 2012 11:32 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Maintenance, Safety At HomeI’m guessing I’m not the only one who doesn’t want to share their home with eight-legged strangers. When I see those creepy spiders crawling across my floor I immediately feel like I need to check under every chair, table and rug for the rest of their families. Of course, in the part of the country [...]
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Keep Your Home Healthy with Gutters
September 14, 2012 2:31 pm Conversation Thread, Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, MaintenanceEvery time I’m in my house and hear the rain start to pound on my roof, the only thing that goes through my mind is…gutters. Were you expecting me to say, lush greenery or a beautiful rainbow? The fact is, my home doesn’t have rain gutters and it needs them, badly. My husband built our [...]
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It’s Time for Spring Cleaning!
April 11, 2012 11:49 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, MaintenanceI’m getting ready to tackle my favorite yearly task — spring cleaning. (If only there was a font that denotes sarcasm.)I’d rather be carefully plotting my plans to procrastinate and ignore my spring cleaning.But since magical spring cleaning elves don’t exist, I’m making my list. Fortunately, Foremost’s My Great Home website has an easy-to-follow checklist [...]
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Tornado Season is Here – Get Your Home Ready with Tips from Foremost Insurance
March 23, 2011 6:46 pm Home Sweet Home, MaintenanceTornadoes can uproot trees and hurl heavy objects through the air. In fact, tornadoes are classified by their intensity on the Fujita scale ranging from F0 (weakest) to F5 (strongest). To minimize damage, Foremost Insurance encourages you to prepare your home before a storm hits. “Advance planning will help protect your belongings and, more importantly, [...]
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Prevent Dangerous Mold from Growing Inside Your Home; Helpful Tips from Foremost
March 18, 2011 6:43 pm Home Sweet Home, MaintenanceThe temperature is rising and the days are getting longer, signifying spring. As you think about cleaning out the garage or washing the winter off your windows, take a moment to consider one of the most damaging household hazards that arises out of warmer temperatures: mold. Mold occurs naturally. Outdoors it plays a positive role [...]
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