All posts tagged "home"
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How to Halloween-Proof Your Home
Halloween is just around the corner. It’s when ghouls and goblins scare and frighten. To be sure it’s safe when trick-or-treaters roam, there are things that you can do for your kids and your home. First, sidewalks,...
- Posted October 27, 2015
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High Humidity Can Make You and Your Home Sick
A common summer complaint is: It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. Too much moisture in the hot summer air can literally turn your home in into a steam bath. Though weather conditions have the greatest effect...
- Posted August 31, 2015
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Gadgets That Will Make Your Home Smarter
In this hour, the Carey Brothers discuss gadgets that will make your home smarter. Also, they discuss great labor day grilling recipes.
- Posted August 29, 2015
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Insulation: All About Insulation
The furnace is running full bore and yet you feel a chill down to your bones. There isn’t a window open in the house and the walls and ceilings are fully insulated. You simply can’t figure out...
- Posted August 28, 2015
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The Secret To Cutting Your Home Insurance Costs
For most people, a home is their single largest investment. Thus, it makes good sense to do everything you can to protect the integrity and value of that investment. This column is dedicated to helping you do...
- Posted August 28, 2015
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How Long Will Your Applicances Last?
Regardless of how perfect your home was when you purchased it, sooner or later everything will need replacing. Assuming the job was done right the first time and routine maintenance is performed, the home is bound to...
- Posted August 26, 2015
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How You Use Water Inside Your Home
In this day and age of indoor toilets and aqueducts it is hard to believe that there is a such thing as water rationing. What’s all this business about water rationing? If you don’t believe that it’s...
- Posted August 25, 2015
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Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting
Even on the best of moonlit evenings, trying to navigate through the garden via path and patio can be a challenge at best and, at worst, the cause of a nasty spill. A house-mounted spotlight here or...
- Posted August 25, 2015
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Is Bigger Better, Or Just More Costly?
All over the country subdivision lots are getting smaller and the houses that are built on them are getting bigger – much bigger. Where a subdivision home in the sixties topped out at about 1,400 square feet...
- Posted August 21, 2015
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Saving Money On Your Utility By Saving More Water
Water can be easily wasted during any of the following activities: • Landscape irrigation • Hosing down walks and drives • Washing automobiles and other vehicles • Dishwashing • Clothes washing • Toilet flushing • Showering •...
- Posted August 21, 2015