Catching water leaks early can save you thousands of dollars. So it's a good idea to install electronic leak detectors everywhere in your home where there could be water leaks (water heaters, washing machines, air conditioners, etc.).
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Basement Suggestion
For your hallway electrical outlets, installing automatic-on backup lighting can be very helpful in case of power failures.
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Lighting Suggestion
When your power goes out, you'll be glad that you have all of the right emergency supplies available at your fingertips.
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Maintaining Your Emergency Supplies
This article explains how to keep bedbugs from infesting your home, and the do's and don'ts for getting rid of them.
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Keeping Your Home Safe From Bedbugs
If your HVAC equipment is more than 15 years old, consider replacing your heating and cooling equipment with higher efficiency units.
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Energy Audits Suggestion
Here are some tips for taking care of your storm windows, so they do their job and stay in good condition.
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Storm Window Care
Use a wireless freezer thermometer alarm to alert you to temperature variations. Especially for when power failures cause food to warm up into the "danger zone" and are then re-frozen.
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Refrigerator/Freezer Suggestion
Just having CO detectors in your home is not enough . . . they need to be installed in the correct locations.
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Properly Placing Your Carbon Monoxide Detectors
To increase the energy efficiency of your traditional wood fireplace, consider installing a top-sealing chimney damper.
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Fireplace (wood-burning) Suggestion
Installing a leak detector alarm on the floor near your washer can help prevent a small leak from causing expensive problems to your home.
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Washing Machine Suggestion
Consider adding a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for your home computers. A UPS will help keep your hard drives from being potentially damaged during unexpected power outages, and will protect better than a surge protector.
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Personal Computer Suggestion
Whether you use your oven every day, or just once in a while, here are some tips that will help you save energy when you are using your oven.
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Oven Energy-Saving Tips
Use felt or other fabric pads under the legs of all furniture (especially chairs), and periodically check to see that they remain clean.
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Hardwood Floors Suggestion
A child can drown in as little as two inches of water. Install locks on your toilets, and never leave water in buckets, bathtubs, etc.
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Child Safety Suggestion
To help prevent cross-contamination from bacteria, never put cooked food on a plate that previously held raw meat, seafood, poultry, or eggs.
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Kitchen Tip
Adding a backup cellular phone connection to your security system will allow your security system to keep operating even if your landline phone line is cut.
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Security System Suggestion
This article explains why, and the easy steps you can take to clean your smoke detectors.
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Why and How to Clean Your Smoke Detectors
To keep water away from your home's foundation, make sure that all roof gutter joints are properly sealed.
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Roof Gutters Tip
If your kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans are not cleaned regularly, they can breed mold, smell, and stop your fans from working efficiently.
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Removing Nasty Gunk from Your Exhaust Fans
Here are ideas for adding new bathroom features, saving energy and water, improving safety, and making it more beautiful.
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Bathroom Makeover Ideas
Using refillable water bottles are much more environmentally friendly than using single-use plastic bottles.
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Green Suggestion
To help save energy, consider installing motion sensors on any outside lights that are easily forgotten.
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Outdoor Lighting Suggestion
Instead of a cut tree, consider buying a living holiday tree that you can plant outside after the holidays.
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Holiday Lighting Suggestion
Adding centrally-monitored smoke alarms will usually help lower your homeowner's insurance premiums by 5% or more.
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Insurance Suggestion
An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires, and a photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires.
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Smoke Detectors Suggestion
If you have stairways in your home, you may be able to create more storage space for your home by adding cabinets or shelves under your staircase.
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Basement Suggestion
Consider re-upholstering your furniture to restore its look and sitting comfort.
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Furniture (upholstered) Suggestion
To save energy and maintain recipe cook times, minimize the number of times you open your oven to check your food. Each time the oven is opened the temperature can drop 50-100 degrees F (10-38 degrees C).
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Oven (electric) Tip
To save energy, place lamps in the corner of the room instead of against one wall, so that more light is reflected into the room.
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Lighting Tip
Let dishes air-dry instead of using the drying feature of your dishwasher. Not using the drying feature of your dishwasher reduces its energy usage by about 50%.
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Dishwasher Tip