Keeping Your Air Clean: 11 Factors that Impact Your Indoor Air Quality Part 2

Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), results from the smoke that others have to smell when tobacco products like cigars and cigarettes are burned. The health effects of smoking are well known: lung cancer, cardiovascular disease (strokes and heart disease), sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), more frequent and severe asthma attacks, and […]

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Keeping Your Air Clean: 11 Factors that Impact Your Indoor Air Quality Part 1

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

What is Indoor Air Quality? Indoor Air Quality, aka IAQ, or indoor environmental quality, is a term used to describe the condition of air within a building like a home, school, or building. According to the EPA, Americans spend about 90 percent of their time indoors, and the concentration of pollutants can be two to

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Inspection Tools: What Your Inspector Carries With Them Part 1

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

Tools are the most important things that your home inspector will bring with them to your home inspection to assess the condition of your home, along with expertise. Did you know that the home inspection is non-invasive, meaning it does not take apart or move anything within the home either? The home inspection is a

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Experts Say Appliance Shortage Won’t End Anytime Soon, And Ovens and Dishwashers Still Hard to Find With Hot Housing Market

Home Buying Tips, Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic quickly created conditions for a national appliance shortage last year, and it continues one year later. Experts have long been seeing how the pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of a supply chain spread out across the world. On the demand side, home sales are swift, and homebound families have been renovating,

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Fall Home Maintenance: Get Your Home Ready for Fall and Winter

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

Once Labor Day weekend is here, it is important to do theses fall home maintenance projects to take advantage of the still nice warm end of summer, beginning of fall weather inside and outside your home, to get it weather-ready for fall and winter. Here is a simple checklist for you to help get you

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Easy Spring Cleaning and Decluttering Tips For a Sparkling Home Part 2

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

Spring has finally arrived, and while Mother Nature is still giving us cold rainy and windy weather on some days, spring is definitely in the air. Now is the perfect time to start your annual spring cleaning time. Let us help you with these easy and quick spring cleaning and decluttering tips that will make

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Easy Spring Cleaning and Decluttering Tips For a Sparkling Home Part 1

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Top 10 Water Heater Mistakes and Code Violations Part 2

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

6. Lack of combustion air: This is a major topic, and we won’t be able to cover everything here. Combustion air does a few things: It provides oxygen for the fire, ventilates the appliance, it feeds an open draft hood to maintain draft, and it replaces the air leaving the building with fresh outside air

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Top 10 Water Heater Mistakes and Code Violations Part 1

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

Ever wondered how to properly install a water heater? Worried about making some mistakes? Here are some common water heater mistakes, and some could even become life-threatening. For many people, installing a tank water heater may be easy, however, these are often the people who actually fail the inspection. Indeed, a water heater can be

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Here is Your Ultimate Spring Cleaning 2021 Checklist For Next Year

Home Maintenance Tips / Jay Brzezinski

The Today Show featured a mega ultimate spring cleaning list to start your 2021 off right come this spring. Each section features a specific and detailed cleaning checklist, from your bathrooms, your kitchen, your bedrooms, to your living room, and more. To quickly jump to the spring-cleaning checklist you’re looking for, click on the links

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