winter projects

End of Season Primping and Easy House Touch-ups, Part 2

  • Posted on September 23, 2019
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End of Season Primping and Easy House Touch-ups, Part 2 In our last blog we started with end of summer projects to get your home ready for the fall and winter months. We covered the Kitchen and Bathrooms.  In this blog we are going to cover the outside and the rest of the inside of the house. So we will begin with the Laundry Room: Clothes Dryer Vent Pipe: Did you know that the accumulation of lint in the vent pipe on clothes dryers cause 15,000 fires annually? To prevent a dryer vent…Read more …

End of Season Primping and Easy House Touch-ups, Part 1

  • Posted on September 18, 2019
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End of Season Primping and Easy House Touch-ups, Part 1 Now that summer is winding down, it’s time to start thinking about getting your home ready for the fall and winter months ahead.  The following are some of the tasks that are easier to take care of during the end of summer rather than during the fall or winter.  We will start with the kitchen and Bathrooms. Refrigerator Coils: The condenser coils job on a refrigerator is to remove heat from inside the motor; and when they get dusty and dirty, it can…Read more …

Add a Gardening Room!

  • Posted on December 21, 2017
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Now that the weather is getting a bit tricky outside it’s time to start thinking about taking activities inside.  One way to do this is by adding a Gardening room to your basement.  It can be an inexpensive way to extend your love of gardening to a year-round activity even in the wild and unpredictable Chicago climate!All you need at minimum is about an 8 by 8 foot wide space. First thing we do is lay an easy to clean tile floor, preferably with a drain, but it is but necessary.  Next up…Read more …