Spring is the perfect time to give your home a thorough once-over and tackle any maintenance tasks that may have accumulated over the winter months. Taking care of these tasks in the spring will help ensure that your home is in top condition for the rest of the year....

Here quick guide to the basic tools needed for a homeowner. This list is by no means exhaustive and could easily be added onto depending on your needs. Feel free to ask me about any other tools that you might find useful. 1.  Plunger A clogged sink or toilet...

If you live in an older home, you might not have as many electrical receptacles as you would like, and you might even find that there are a lot of ungrounded receptacles. Unfortunately, there isn’t always an easy way to fix this. If there isn’t a ground connection...

There are many different things you can do to improve the appearance of your home, some taking more time and effort than others. The walls inside your home make a huge difference in the way your home looks, and usually this will involve painting your walls, but some...

One very common reason why children or seniors are hurt in their own homes is falling. Falling can be made a lot worse, however, if it happens on stairs. Thousands die each year from falling down stairs in the US alone. You should keep your stairs safe by paying...

When your toilets and sinks start backing up, you don’t always know what the cause is. There are many different things that can be behind a clogged pipe, but if it is your main sewer pipe that is blocked, you will see a problem with every single drain in your home,...

Water has many unique properties that help in nature. It is able to climb up the inside of huge trees through capillary attraction, and because of the way it expands when it freezes, ice will float on the surface of water instead of sinking to the bottom. While these...

The sun is very far away from us. It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the light from the sun to reach us, but amazingly it still has a huge impact on our lives. Without the heat from the sun, life couldn’t exist on the earth. In recent decades, some have also begun...

Typically, December is a very busy month for many people with a lot of time spent indoors with family and friends. Naturally, more time at home means an increased risk of accidents within the home so, we thought a few safety reminders would be a good idea. Here are a...