02/09/2025
Ensuring your new, newly remodeled, or existing home remains in prime condition through all seasons:
Congratulations on acquiring your new dream home or finalizing the renovations you've been planning (big or small). Now that you've reached this significant milestone, it's essential to concentrate on preserving your home's optimal condition and preventing potential problems. Fortunately, maintaining a brand-new or newly renovated home is relatively effortless. Here are our top ten recommendations for keeping your home in exceptional condition.
1. Open your blinds during the cold season. It's easy to keep your blinds closed during the winter months to help keep the heat in, but it's also a great idea to open them up daily! Why? To allow your home to breathe and prevent window condensation from ruining your blinds. What's the fun in snuggling up on the couch early in the morning with a hot cup of coffee and a comfy, cozy blanket if you can't see the beautiful winter weather out your window?
2. Change the batteries in your smoke/CO2 detector once a year. Replacing the batteries in your smoke/CO2 detector is one of those things that's easy to forget, but still needs to get done. Here's a good rule of thumb: Whenever you change your furnace filter, change your batteries too.
3. Clean the patio door slider of debris. Without a doubt, the most forgotten-about yet dirty part of the home is the patio door slider track. Sticks, leaves, and plain old dirt blow into the track, gumming it up and making it harder for the door to roll back and forth. It's a good idea to clear it out at least twice a year and re-lubricate it to keep the slider running smoothly.
4. Scrub down your patio or deck. You clean the floors on the inside of your home, so why not clean the ones on the outside? Taking the time once a year to really scrub down your patio or deck keeps dirt, grime, and mildew from discoloring the surface and making it look old. Given all the abuse the exterior of our homes take, it only makes sense to give them a bath once in a while.
5. Lubricate garage doors. Lubrication is one of those things that will always wear away over time, so if your garage doors start to squeak after a while, you can hit it with a lubricant like WD40 to bring it back to smoothly running along like new.
6. Clean your gutters. This one is pretty self-explanatory. Not only does cleaning dirt and leaves from your gutters help them to drain better, but it also removes kindling from your roof that could easily catch fire.
7. Clean out dryer vents. This is similar to cleaning out gutters. Lint can build up in dryer vents and pose a fire risk, so it’s best to clean it out regularly. It is recommended to do this at least twice a year.
8. Look at faucets and drains. While there shouldn’t be any problems with the plumbing in your new or newly renovated home, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep an eye out for something unexpected. From time to time, look at the drains and faucets in your house to see if you notice anything wet or dripping. If you do, contact a plumber to come and fix the problem.
9. Install a water leak detector. Another, more advanced, way to prevent potential water damage in your home is to install a water leak detector. These systems are able to tell if water is present in the home and let you know, so that you can either turn the water off if you’re there, or let someone know to come by and turn it off if you’re away.
10. Keep your sink water dripping on very cold nights to keep water from freezing and busting pipes. You might also want to wrap your pipes in insulation if it's going to be very cold.
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