Radon Pros

Installing a bicycle hoist can be a great way to increase usable space in your garage.
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Garage 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

Install a water leak detector to alert you if your sump pump fails. Some models can even send alerts to your cellphone.
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Sump Pump Suggestion

Microwaved foods should be allowed time after microwaving for the heat to continue to spread and dissipate. This is called 'standing time', but it is actually when up to 20% additional cooking occurs.
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Microwave Oven Tip

This article discusses how to avoid common household plumbing problems.
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Avoiding Common Plumbing Problems

Consider installing energy-saving dimmer switches for the light switches in your home where you want to be able to adjust room lighting needs.
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Lighting Suggestion

Keep baking soda handy near your stove, as this can be used to smother a small fire. NEVER pour water on a grease fire, as it can cause an enormous fireball to erupt.
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Stove Cooktop (electric) Suggestion

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

Have you ever noticed your clothes dryer feeling cold in the winter and warm in the summer? If so, you are wasting energy, and here is a solution.
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A Better Sealing Clothes Dryer Vent

Although marble is, well, hard as a rock, its lovely surface can be easily damaged if the proper precautions are not taken.
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Marble Floors: DO's and DON'Ts

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

If you haven't already, test your water to see if it is "hard," and if so, you may need to add a water softener to allow your dishwasher to perform better.
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Dishwasher Suggestion

You should have A-B-C type fire extinguishers everywhere in your home that there could be fire hazards, such as: kitchen; laundry with dryer; workshop; and garage.
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Fire Extinguishers Suggestion

Adding indoor plants in your home will naturally remove carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the air.
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Health & Safety Suggestion

Consider installing a bicycle hoist to increase useable space in your garage.
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Garage Suggestion

Regardless of the ages of your household members, it's a good idea to install LED night lights along the entire path from each bedroom to the bathroom.
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Bathroom Suggestion

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

Don’t allow ivy vines to grow on your wood siding. Ivy works its way between wood siding, opening joints, causing damage to the structure of the wall, and increasing the risk of wood rot.
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Wood Siding

Always turn off or cancel the program timer on your microwave before opening the door on your microwave. Sudden opening of the door can cause the unit's safety fuse to blow.
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Microwave Oven

If your refrigerator is more than 10-15 years old, consider upgrading to a new, higher-efficiency refrigerator.
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Refrigerator/Freezer Suggestion

Your home computer, like any important appliance in your home, requires routine maintenance.
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Important Care for Your Home Computer

Block direct sunlight from hitting your freezer, and keep heat-producing appliances (for example, toaster ovens) away from your freezer.
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Freezer (stand-alone)

If your washer still has rubber water supply hoses, you should consider replacing them with high-quality, reinforced stainless-steel braided hoses.
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Washing Machine Suggestion

Consider installing sun-control window shadings or reflective films on your south or west facing windows.
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Windows Suggestion

Consider installing either a battery or a water-powered back-up for your sump pump. Power failures tend to occur when you can need your sump pump the most, like during thunderstorms.
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Sump Pump Suggestion

Use a surge protector anywhere in your home where you have delicate, expensive equipment such as computers, printers, routers, televisions, etc.
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Electrical Suggestion

Consider installing chlorine water filters for your home, either as a whole-house filter, or least at each shower head, where breathing chlorinated steam mist creates the greatest health hazard.
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Plumbing Suggestion

To help save energy, consider upgrading to light-colored, loose-weave curtains, that will allow more daylight to come through.
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Drapes & Blinds Suggestion

Installing corner-mounted doorway fans are a great way to circulate warm air from your fireplace into adjacent rooms.
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Fireplace (gas) 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