Tips & Links
We've done some research for commonly asked questions regarding the topics below.
Protecting Your Home From Fire:
Fires are the second leading cause of accidental death around the home. Due to unique behavior of smoke, fire restoration may not be simple. It is important to have an experienced restoration team on your side. A fast treatment will help reduce smoke and soot health hazards. A fire loss can result in complex damages because of the unique behavior of smoke. A trained professional should survey the loss site to determine the extent to which fire, smoke, heat, and moisture impacted building materials and contents.
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Weatherizing Your Home:
Don't wait until you pack up the lawn furniture to prepare your home for winter. To save money later, think now about weatherizing for the cold days ahead. Because many of the steps you take to prepare for winter save energy year-round, you'll be making your home cooler and more comfortable in summer as well.
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Finding The Right Contractor:
Your home may be your most valuable financial asset. That's why it's important to be cautious when you hire someone to work on it. Home improvement and repair and maintenance contractors often advertise in newspapers, the Yellow Pages, and on the radio and TV. However, don't consider an ad an indication of the quality of a contractor's work. Your best bet is a reality check from those in the know: friends, neighbors, or co-workers who have had improvement work done. Get written estimates from several firms. Ask for explanations for price variations. Don't automatically choose the lowest bidder.
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Tackling Small Projects Yourself:
Once you have completed a small home improvement project, you will be able to determine what you are capable of and what tasks you would be willing to try yourself. You may get the home improvement itch and take on everything yourself; you may decide that you lack some skills and would rather hire a professional to do the job. Without trying a home improvement project yourself, you will never know what you are capable of.
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Improving Your Curb Appeal:
A large percentage of home buyers decide whether or not to look inside a house or take it seriously based on its curb appeal—the view they see when they drive by or arrive for a showing. You can help make sure they want to come inside your house by spending some time working on the its exterior appearance. It's difficult to look at our own house in the same way that potential home buyers do, because when we become accustomed to the way something looks and functions, we can't see its faults. Decide right now to stop thinking of the property as a home. It's a house—a commodity you want to sell for the highest dollar possible.
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Building A New Home:
Everything you need to know about buying, financing, building, maintaining or remodeling your home is right here. The link above will help guide you through every stage of home ownership and also may help you understand more about home building and the environmental and community growth issues facing our neighborhoods.
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