Homeowners Blog
The Maintenance Question You Need to Ask Before Buy You’ve spent three decades maintaining your home. And now you are considering options that that will take care of themselves instead of you cleaning regularly. Every ad says “low maintenance”. But what does that actually
When Spring Snowmelt Reveals What Your Gutters Did All Winter You’ve owned your home long enough to know the pattern. March arrives, the snowpack starts melting, and you notice water pooling near your foundation (trust us, you don’t want foundation damage). Or worse, staining
Trees Clog Gutters You bought your home in the suburbs partly because of those mature trees. The shade in summer. The character. The privacy from the street. But if you’ve lived here more than one season, you already know: those same trees are filling
Poor Drainage Leads to Foundation Issues You’ve likely walked past your home’s foundation a hundred times without giving it much thought. But if water pools near your basement walls after a rainstorm, or if you’ve noticed a musty smell coming from your lower level,
Why Your Downspouts Freeze Solid Every February You’ve probably stood in your driveway on a 45-degree afternoon in late February, watching water pour over the front of your gutters while nothing is exiting your downspouts. The sun is out. The temperature is above freezing.
What You Should Be Looking at Right Now You know that feeling when the snow finally melts off your roof and you can see your gutters again? That moment when you realize they’re sagging in the middle, or there’s a gap between the gutter