Post Tagged with: "home"
Hot Topic! 9 Ways to Prevent Youth Firesetting for Arson Awareness Week.
May 7, 2013 10:12 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet HomeIt’s Arson Awareness Week and this year’s theme is reducing residential arson. One of the main motivations for home arson is curiosity and these types of fires are most often set by children. According to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), fires set by children are responsible for more than 100 fire-related deaths, nearly 1,000 burn [...]
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Do You Know Your Flood Risk?
March 21, 2013 9:23 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At Home, SeasonalAccording to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), floods are the number one natural disaster in the country. Good thing that this week (March 17-22) is National Flood Safety Awareness Week. Wait, you had no idea about Flood Safety Week? I can’t blame you; there have been plenty of motorcycles and basketball games to distract [...]
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Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Come Home.
March 1, 2013 5:25 pm Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At HomeGood night, sleep tight. We all know the rest of the rhyme. When I was little, my dad used to say that almost every night before I went to bed. What used to be a silly poem to me is now a serious fear when traveling. If you’ve encountered bed bugs while traveling, like my [...]
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8 Tips for Keeping a Fire Safely in its Fireplace
January 30, 2013 9:05 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At HomeIf you’re like my husband, you like having a crackling fire in the fireplace while you’re watching a movie on a cold winter’s night. There’s definitely something alluring about having a fireplace in your home. According to the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association’s (HPBA) 2011 statistics, fireplace ranks second among the top features buyers seek [...]
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Happy Bubble Wrap® Appreciation Day!
January 28, 2013 2:37 pm Home Sweet HomeWhat? You didn’t know about this celebration? It’s celebrated the last Monday in January every year — since 2001. Let me introduce you to the most addictive or annoying day (feelings directly correlated to whether you’re popping or you’re listening to some pop Bubble Wrap). Here are the basics from Fastpack Packaging. Bubble Wrap is the brand [...]
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Radon: The Silent Danger
January 21, 2013 10:34 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At HomeIn January 2008, my husband and I were “this close” to purchasing our first home. After a couple of months of looking, we found a home that we loved, in a charming neighborhood and in our price range. It was missing only one thing from the checklist of amenities we wanted in our home (oh [...]
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The Ice Dam Cometh?
January 4, 2013 11:51 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At Home, SeasonalI have a weird fascination with icicles. During the winter, I like to travel around certain neighborhoods and scope out the size of icicles hanging off of houses. While they can appear to be “beautiful,” I recently learned how truly ugly they can be. Not only are icicles a sign of inadequate attic insulation, it [...]
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Ten Days of Holiday: Foremost Specialty Dwelling
December 13, 2012 6:04 pm Conversation Thread, Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, SeasonalDon’t know which way to turn for homeowners insurance? Not sure what company wants you? Rest assured and choose Foremost Homeowners. We specialize in policies that are customized with you in mind. Your home isn’t standard and your insurance policy shouldn’t be either. You need specialized coverage that will take care of the things that [...]
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6 Ways to Secure Your Home When You’re Away
November 12, 2012 10:00 am Featured Articles, Home Sweet Home, Safety At HomeDid you know that statistically a burglary occurs in the United States every 14.4 seconds? (At least according to the FBI.) As a season full of holiday-related travel approaches, are you doing what you can to adequately secure your home while you’re gone? According to data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, burglaries accounted for [...]
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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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