Did you know that every year, almost one in 50 homes experiences a frozen pipe issue serious enough to warrant an insurance claim? The smallest fissure in a water pipe can send hundreds of gallons of water per minute flooding into your home, leading to significant and costly damage. Compounding this issue is the fact that the first bouts of …
Childproofing Your Home for Holiday Guests
If you have never had young children living in your current home, it’s very likely that you haven’t childproofed the way you would if little feet were running up and down your halls. Maybe you haven’t had this to worry about in quite some time, or maybe you’ve never lived in a home where such safety measures were needed. But …
There Goes the Neighborhood….Affecting Your Home Price!
How does your real estate agent decide on the right selling price for your home? What do they see that you don’t when they advise you on which houses in your search area are priced above or below market value? Whether you’re in the market to buy or sell a home, or both, it helps to understand how factors that …
How’s the Air in There?
With the days getting shorter and temperatures dropping, chances are you will be spending more and more time inside your home. As you prepare for winter, one thing you might not have thought about is your home’s air quality. Over the last few decades, the number of synthetic chemicals used in products for the home has increased drastically, and the …
Curtains, Blinds or Both?
Did you recently purchase a new home, and now you’re in the midst of redecorating and replacing fixtures left by the previous owners, or decorating a new build from scratch? Or maybe you’ve just decided to refresh the look of some rooms in your home by updating your window treatments. Should you go with blinds, curtains or both? Some rooms …
Save the Roof!
Your home’s roof is one of its most important and expensive assets, and the item the average homeowner dreads replacing more than anything else associated with their home. The nationwide average cost of a new roof is around $10,000, and while most roof replacements can be completed in 3-4 days, the expense, noise and mess associated with this project can …
What to do With All That Candy!
re you already dreading the leftover Halloween candy that will be crowding your cupboard for the next several months? Halloween is just over a week away and most of us are doing the candy math, trying to decide how much we should buy so that our bowl never runs empty, but we also aren’t left with mountains of candy come …
Fall Home Maintenance Tips
It’s fall in Atlanta, with winter just around the corner. While we don’t expect subzero temperatures or months of snow shoveling in our neck of the woods, we can expect frosty mornings and a flurry or two as the year winds down. Before the warm and sunny afternoons fade away, now is a great time to tackle some of the …
To Rake or Not to Rake?
To quote a meme travelling around the city lately, Atlanta’s weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper! Most of us are thrilled to have temperatures that finally make it feel like fall, and even the windy and rainy days are a welcome reprieve from the steamy summer that overstayed its welcome. But of course, …