Winter Maintenance Tip: Pruning Trees and Shrubs

Pruning Trees and Shrubs

Pruning trees and shrubs in winter have multiple impacts on your home. Keeping those trees and shrubs close to the home trim can help with any potential damage that could occur from falling branches or winds driving tree branches into the home. Trimming these branches can also help to manage overgrowth where burglars could potentially hide.

Cutting and trimming certain trees and shrubs can also support a Read More


Keeping the Energy Alive with In Home Fitness Spaces

Home Fitness Spaces

This time of year gets us focused on so many goals and processes. We look at a fresh year as a way to commit to our health. Reviewing our eating habits, reviewing our activity level and overall goals, basically losing a few pounds from the holiday indulgence. After all, bathing suit season is just around the corner.

One area of the home that we assess is our workout area and what is available to us to get ourselves headed for a healthier course. Here are some tips to identifying home fitness spaces.  Read More


How to Prevent Icy Threats to Your Home

Icy ThreatsExtreme winter weather can be dangerous. Ask the millions of Americans who dealt with the frigid conditions caused by the Polar Vortex. From icy sidewalks to cars buried in snow, sometimes Mother Nature shows no mercy. But if slippery sidewalks and sub-zero temperatures aren’t bad enough,

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Air Conditioners and Winter Heating Tips: Are You Letting Cold Air In?

winter heating tips

Guest Blogger, Nancy Parker

In the summer time having a few window air conditioning units can seem like a godsend. However. when winter time comes those same units can be a great hole in your home’s winter wardrobe. If you have air conditioning window units then you may be letting unnecessary cold in and your hard earned heat out. Ultimately,  Read More


What does Energy Star really mean?

It comes up often, how do appliances and home solutions secure an Energy Star ranking? And what is the value of Energy Star appliances and equipment to my home? A solution must meet minimum standards defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. The list of standards can be found here.  One of the standards listed is the ability to measure energy efficiency effectiveness. Another standard is that the products need to be labeled energy efficient.

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