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How level is your House?

If your home is not level, it can lead to many and varied problems. Some are minor or merely nuisances (cakes in oven are uneven no matter how often you adjust oven height), while other issues can be quite serious such as leading to structural damage. It really depends on how badly leveling is needed and what that entails. If leveling is required, it is advised to hire a professional to take care of it. It’s generally not cheap, but leveling a home is not an area where most people are going to be comfortable with guesswork. It can also … Continue reading →

More Tips For Winterizing Your Home—Pipes and Gutters

So you’ve completed the winterization process on your home’s windows and doors, now it’s time to concentrate on the plumbing and roof. I don’t know where you live, but here in the Upper Midwest meteorologists are warning of an Artic blast that’s making its way down from Canada. They say by the end of the week our daytime highs won’t get out of the mid 20’s. For residents around here now’s the time to wrap the outside hose bibs. Resist the newspaper-and-duct-tape method (once water seeps through the newspaper your covering will be rendered useless, and that’s not saying anything … Continue reading →

Our Condo Story Part 3… The Conclusion

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Part 1 covered our pursuit of our dream of homeownership and Part 2 touched on the horrors of mold. Okay, so listen what happened next… The water damage was along our common wall so we notified our neighbors. They were not having any leak problems. We thought the water must be coming from the roof since there wasn’t any other places it could have come from. We’d had over a month straight of rainy days. With everything that had happened so far, we were not excited about going into the attic. We thought either we’d find a body, drugs or … Continue reading →