It’s cool in most of the country now and that means it’s time to go through the last few steps needed to get your home ready for winter. For those of you who have window AC units you should almost definitely take them out and store them properly inside. However, the question of whether you need to cover a central AC unit still remains a murky one, with a lot of “heated” debate on both sides.

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Ahh, another sunny day with mild weather! Late summer into early fall is the perfect time of the year to begin on home improvement projects for many different reasons. The mild weather between hot summers and cold winters make indoor and outdoor home improvement projects easy to start and even easier to finish. The long sunny days of summer are nothing but memories but that doesn’t mean you have to stop improving your home.

For me, home …

One of the chores I hate the most in the fall is collecting leaves and putting them in leaf bags by the curb, as required by my township. Some towns allow you to just put your leaves in a pile in front of your house, but in my municipality we have to put all our leaves in paper lawn and leaf bags or large plastic bags during one or two weeks in the late fall and the township will send trucks around to pick them up.

I can’t just dump my leaves in a compost pile or even shred them …

I spent the day getting my yard ready for winter and one of the big projects I had to do was clean out some of my gutters. As you may remember, I actually installed some relatively cheap gutter covers a few years ago and I’ve had pretty good luck with them for the low cost. They blew off once in the spring and this August we had a rough storm come through that actually blew my garage gutter right off the house. I replaced the gutter, but the cheap gutter cover was cracked and I never …