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Feeling cold? Try weatherizing your home
Winter may not always mean freezing weather along Alabama's Gulf Coast, but January and February still typically bring us our chilliest temperatures. Because we could have a winter weekend in the 70s and the next in the 40s, ensuring your home is energy efficient is a must at the beginning of the new year. What better way to start off the year than saving money, after all?
Improving your home's weather-related energy efficiency, known as weatherization, can mean anything from replacing old windows to installing solar panels. The scope of the weatherization process depends on how comfortable your home currently is, how long you plan to stay in your home, and how much money is heading straight out the window each month. At its most basic, weatherization entails sealing air leaks and improving ins...
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2021 Routine Maintenance Reminders
The start of a new year probably means you made a list of goals. Call them resolutions. Call it brainstorming or a non-binding to-do list. Call it whatever you like, but chances are the list included some type
of home improvement project. Maybe it's redoing your extra bathroom so your Christmas guests aren't as cramped next year. Maybe it's creating a designated play area or room, so you stop tripping over the toys littering the floor.
While you're tackling those big resolutions, remember it's routine maintenance that helps your home thrive each year. Some routine maintenance is pretty commonly advised: change the air filter, test the fire alarms, check the fire extinguisher, have the HVAC serviced, check for leaky pipes and faucets, cut trees and shrubs back, clean out the dryer...
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Try these simple holiday crafts for kids
How long is your Christmas to-do list? Chances are for everything you manage to cross off, you find another item to replace it. So goes the holiday season. But regardless of the fast pace, it's a special time of year, especially if you have young children in the house. Check out the following DIY kids holiday craft ideas to help you check off a few items on your list and channel some their excitement.
Natural Christmas Tree Ornaments
The name says it all. Why buy ornaments when you can recruit the kids to help you make them at a fraction of the cost? Double bonus: you can keep them for long past when sticks and pinecones provide any form of entertainment...
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Holiday home security a must
While you may not be traveling quite as far or for as long as normal during this holiday season, chances are you are still going to be leaving the house at some point. And if that's the case, then you are leaving your home vulnerable to theft during a time when it likely has even more valuables inside than normal.
With the holidays right around the corner, now's the time to begin planning how to protect your home from break-ins this season.
When you think holiday home security, do you automatically think about Home Alone? Not all of us can be masters of home defense like Kevin, but simple security measures can make all the difference. Check out the tips below to help you get a jump start this yea...
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Safety tips for the holidays
A time for friends, family and festivities, the holiday season is right around the corner. And while it may look a bit different than in years past, it will likely include at least some of the normal hoorah of the holidays: decorating, cooking and gift giving. Ensure the Grinch doesn't pay you a visit in the midst of the prep and planning with these holiday safety tips.
Decorating
O' Christmas trees, how lovely are their branches? It's hard
to beat a tree decked out with lights, ornaments and tinsel. Help children hang ornaments and keep any that may look like treats to toddlers or pets high on the tree. Only use lights that were tested from a recognized laboratory to help...
