If you carved your pumpkin this past weekend because you got excited, I have some bad news: it’s probably already…
Somewhere in your house there’s probably a square or rectangular panel in the ceiling — a hallway closet, a bedroom,…
You walk past the living room, and there it is: that faint, stale campfire smell drifting out of a fireplace…
First frost is creeping up on most of the country right about now, and there’s one home maintenance task that…
By the first week of August, that white resin chair on your porch has usually gone through some kind of identity crisis. It started the summer crisp and bright. Now it\’s a chalky, grayish-yellow version of itself, and if you run a finger across it, you get a weird powdery residue on your skin. That\’s…
You’ve owned this door for years. It’s always glided along fine, and then sometime around mid-July it turned into a two-hand, hip-check situation just to get out to the patio. If you’re wondering whether the door is broken or you’re just weaker than you used to be, it’s the door. Almost always. Heat Is Doing…
You did the responsible homeowner thing. You noticed the outdoor spigot dripping, you shut off the water, you pulled the stem, and you swapped in a shiny new rubber washer. Twenty minutes of work, mild sense of accomplishment. Then you turn the water back on and it’s still leaking. Sometimes worse than before. Annoying, right?…
Late July is prime time for the annual ritual of shouldering your front door open like you’re trying to break into your own house. If a door that swung fine in April suddenly needs a hip check in July, you’re not imagining it, and you’re definitely not alone. This is one of the most common…
You know the smell. You walk down the basement stairs to grab something out of storage and it hits you — that damp, musty, faintly sock-like odor that seems to intensify the second summer humidity kicks in. It’s not your imagination, and it’s definitely not something you should just live with until fall. That smell…
You expect a window AC unit to drip somewhere. That’s normal. What’s not normal is coming home to a puddle on your windowsill, water running down the wall, or your carpet squishing under the unit like a bad water balloon. If your AC is leaking inward instead of dumping condensate outside where it belongs, something’s…
