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Summer And Winter Maintenance Tips For Your Home
Summer And Winter Maintenance Tips For Your Home
Because of unpredictable weather, many homeowners are forced to spend extra money to overcome the after-effects of a harsh climate. However, conducting maintenance processes at the right time can save your home and surroundings from damage.

Owning a home is everyone's dream. Many people built their homes with modern designs and styles and include high-quality materials for their homes. Also, new interior designs are available to increase the beauty of your home and surroundings. Along with building your home in modern style, it's also important to maintain the beauty for years. Because of unpredictable weather, many homeowners are forced to spend extra money to overcome the after-effects of a harsh climate. However, conducting maintenance processes at the right time can save your home and surroundings from damage. Following are the top maintenance tips that must be followed in our home to prevent unwanted money loss and house destruction.

Winter Maintenance Tips For Your Home

Winter plays a significant role in your home and surroundings. The Winter season may adversely affect your home in the form of heavy snow, wind, flood, and heavy rainfall. It's very difficult to cover the loss due to a flood or snow and make your home back to normal. Therefore, you must take essential maintenance procedures to prevent huge destruction as a result of bad winter. Here are some winter maintenance tips for your home:

1. Check Your Drainage System

A clogged drain is the main problem faced by many house owners. This appears as a small problem and may cause serious damages including slow water drainage, corrosion, flooding, and, in extreme cases, sewage backup and costly repairs. Pull out the specks of dirt by using a convenient shovel and dump the whole waste only in garbage bins, not on your lawn, and completely flush out all gutters with a hosepipe. Check your basement for water damage stains and resolve them as soon as possible.

2. Clean Your Dryer

The dryer is the main thing in use mainly in the winter season. Clean the lint filter and remove the build-up lint from the dryer to increase efficiency. Replace the filter at the right time. 

3. Check Your Electrical System

Electrical maintenance is essential for reducing both money loss and avoiding accidents from a spark. Check the main service panel for sparking, and inspect the wire breakage and ensure they are well insulated. Use a multi-meter to test power flow through the electrical circuits and if you find any trouble, hire a qualified electrician and conduct all electrical works. Also, check all your electronic devices, especially the heating system. 

 4. Seal Leaky Doors and Windows

Water leakage is a major problem due to heavy rain and this may be due to the gap between the doors. Installing Bronze weatherstripping or Adhesive-backed EPDM rubber meets in the middle lasts for a long time.

5. Check your insurance coverage

Every house owner takes an insurance policy while buying their home. However, many of them fail to check the important coverage added in their policy. You must check whether your policy has coverage for any natural calamity like snow, flood, heavy wind, etc. And purchase the right home insurance policy including the important coverage.

6. Prepare for Winter Storms

Freezing rain, blizzards, severe storms, sleet, etc are common in the winter season. A heavy storm can destroy your home and surroundings. So taking emergency precautions are necessary to withstand that heavy climate. Power outages are the major risk of a heavy storm, so you must arrange a generator system, a stash of batteries for lanterns and flashlights, etc. You cannot charge your phones in case of a power outbreak. So for getting alert messages, it is better to have a solar-powered or battery-operated radio in your home. 

Summer Maintenance Tips For Your Home

Many people don't take urgent maintenance tips in summer as they believe that summer may not cause huge damage to your home and surroundings. Like heavy snow, strong ultraviolet rays also cause some damage to your home and surroundings. Also, summer is the best time to clean your whole home and surroundings. Here are some checklists for the summer season.

1. Check your A/C

A high-quality air conditioner is essential in the hard summer season. Make sure that your air conditioner has the ability before those ultra-high temperatures kick in. Also, clean the filter of A/C and test the working of your air conditioner. 

2. Clear out the clutter

The summer season is the best time to clean all your drain. Deep cleaning the whole house and surroundings can be done easily in the summer season. 

3. Beautify Your Yard

Every homeowner plans to enjoy their summer in the backyards. First, you should remove all the dead and unwanted plants from the yard and do weed control processes. Lay flower beds and let your plants retain moisture. 

4. Save Energy

You can save more money during summer by using solar energy. Using solar power is the most effective way to reduce your power bill. Therefore, install solar panels and save money as well as energy.