Tag Archive | "winter"
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Got melted snow in your basement? A lot of people do with weather cycles like this. I guess you could just call the melted snow “water”, but anyone with a wet basement just calls it annoying. When there’s a foot of snow outside and the sun and warmer temperatures melt inches of snow in one [...]
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If you live in most any part of middle-America and it is February 1, 2011 as you read this, and you also DON’T own a snowplow, you will most likely be inside your house for the next couple days. If you’re like most people, you’ll use the time to relax with your family, catch up [...]
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What would you do if a water pipe inside your home burst due to freezing? What would you do if, as you sit here at your computer, you hear a strange noise, then the sound of water running, and find a pipe under a sink or elsewhere shooting water all over the place? That water [...]
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It’s winter (not technically, but it’s December). Typically from December through February, depending on where you live of course, there’s not a lot of rain coming down. Snow, sleet, and ice take over during the cold months, so why would an otherwise functional roof start to leak in the middle of winter? The answer is [...]
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Winter often presents homeowners more hazards than other seasons, in more ways than one. Dangerously cold temperatures, ice, snow, and freezing rain…yes those aspects of winter can all be harmful, but the heating bills that accompany the cold season are the most hazardous to our checkbooks. Looking at a thermometer that reads 24 degrees, I [...]
