3 Important Tips to Protect Your Electrical Equipment during Thunderstorms
Power surges that occur during thunderstorms and heavy rains pose a major risk to your electrical equipment. A power surge can destroy your appliances in a fraction of a second. When lightning strikes nearby, it can cause a spike in your home’s electrical wiring. The spike usually lasts for a brief time but it can
Troubleshooting Guide for Defective Water Heaters
A water heater is an essential household appliance that warms up the water used in cooking, bathing and various other household chores. Water heaters come in two varieties – Electric and gas. Electric water heaters use electricity to heat up the water. Gas water heaters, on the other hand, run on gas to fuel the burner
5 Factors To Diagnose Your Water Quality
The quality of drinking water greatly affects your health. Consumption of unsafe water results in various disease and illnesses. Although the water may appear clean and safe to drink, it may still be polluted. The only way to find out about whether you are drinking clean, safe water is to conduct regular water quality checks.
Why Protect Your House with an External Surge Protector?
Did you know that power surges in the US are responsible for millions of dollars of property damage every year? Few people know that power surges cause long-term damage to household items. Most surges are very brief, lasting about a millionth of a second. However, over time they cause cumulative damage to the household appliances.
Plumbing Maintenance 102 — How to Keep It Safe During the Winter
Winter will soon be upon us, and with it come a multitude of potential plumbing problems. These can range from frozen and cracked pipes to leaks and flooding. Fortunately, there are many DIY options that homeowners can adopt early to prevent or at least mitigate the likelihood of winter plumbing mishaps. These include the following:
Plumbing Maintenance 101: The DIY Checklist Every Homeowner Must Have
In a perfect world, your plumbing would be a onetime, lifetime investment. Unfortunately, this never happens, and unless you perform regular maintenance checks and replace the parts that leak, sag, and nag at your comfortable life, you will be spending more in the long run. You can easily keep plumbing disasters at bay by performing
4 Essential Furnace Repair Tips That Can Save You Money
Are you experiencing trouble with your heating system? Then you are not alone. Every year hundreds of Americans complain of faulty furnace that does not produce the required heat to warm the rooms. Even the most well maintained heating equipment can break down or have issues. Major problems with the heating equipment can only be
5 Signs of Water Leaks in Your Home Plumbing
A report by EPA claims that around 10,000 gallons of water is wasted every year per household in the US due to water leaks in homes. Plumbing leaks in homes increases water bills by around hundreds of dollars. Some of these leaks are not easily noticeable and require a bit of searching to find. In
Why NOW Might Be a Good Time To Replace Your Air Conditioner
Summers have been hectic for your AC units. For the past several months, and years before, the “solar-mighty Sun” has been chugging heatwaves at us, and our beloved cooling friend. Add to this the various atmospheric inversions that raptly amplified the summer heat and turned the already blazing summer scorching — and we can just
The Impact Humidity Can Have on Your AC
Humidity can send your energy bills skyrocketing by wrecking havoc to your air conditioning unit’s coils, and more. So, are we going to share various ways of reducing humidity in your home? No, and that’s the irritating part. Your AC units, according to the climate outside, may or may not need humidity to function properly.
