Home maintenance tasks and guides for every season – spring, summer, fall, and winter.
The first week of spring maintenance starts before you pick up a single tool. I did my first post-winter walkthrough at my 1971 home with my phone camera and a legal pad. I wasn’t fixing anything. I was just looking. And what I found in that one hour walk changed how I understood the house….
Pest can get in gaps in your foundation, open flues, and any warm space they can find. I know this because my house has given them plenty of options. My 1971 home came with a collection of foundation cracks, an unused chimney that turned out to be a very popular address for mice, and enough…
Spring home maintenance checklist season hit my 1971 Maryland hillside home like a freight train. One week it was cold and manageable. The next week the humidity was pushing through the walls and I was standing in my living room wondering why the house felt like a greenhouse. Turns out the previous owners had left…