5 New Year Home Maintenance Tips
During the holiday season, people’s free time often dwindles. People are shopping for gifts, preparing for their holiday guests, and celebrating a new calendar year. Because of this, the end of the year is...
Category: Cold Weather Water Damage
How to Prevent and Remove Ice Dams
Ice dams are hard to avoid in the wintertime, especially during the beginning and end of winter. They can be pretty to look at but can cause critical water damage to the interior and...
How to Find Frozen Pipes
During the winter months, the temperature may drop to dangerously cold numbers. To prepare for such freezing temperatures, people will bundle up, but your own body isn’t the only thing that needs to be...
Southern Home Winterization Tips
When a northerner thinks of the southern region of the US, which consists of Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, balmy temperatures and mild winters come to mind. In reality, as any southerner can...
How to Handle a Sewage Backup in Your Business
It is a stressful situation for sinks or toilets in a commercial property to be backed-up and overflowing, but this situation becomes even worse when there is actual sewage involved in the scenario. What...
How to Prevent Mold Growth After Flooding
Floodwaters pose as an inherent danger both during and after a flood. Harmful bacteria and hazardous chemicals and toxins swarm in floodwaters, polluting everything with which the waters come into contact. Even after the...
Prevent your Basement from Flooding with These Landscaping Tips
If you experience basement flooding in your home on a frequent basis, then your landscaping may be one of the reasons why. When water accumulates outside of your home, there are several ways that...
How to Protect your Home from the Effects of Spring Storms
The spring season has barely arrived and already many areas of the U.S. have been dealing with extreme weather. The northeast has endured several nor’easters, the southeast has experienced several tornadoes, and the Midwest...
Can Homeowner’s Insurance Cover the Damage from Frozen Pipes?
All throughout the winter, homes are vulnerable to the possibility of burst pipes. Pipe bursts typically occur when the water within the pipes freezes and expands, building the pressure within the pipe until it...
Cold Weather Safety Tips
While we are almost out of this cold weather season, there’s no telling what will come next within the last few weeks of winter. With that, here are some cold weather safety tips to...
