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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The Christmas shopping season has begun early this year in most stores, and that can especially be seen in a lot of home improvement stores. Home improvement stores are usually aiming for two holiday markets: the person shopping for that perfect holiday gift as well as the homeowner who is looking for new decorations to be used before the holiday. A lot of the larger hardware stores go all out during the holiday season, carrying a wider selection of lights and electric Christmas decorations than most other retail stores. …

This summer my wife and I spent a fair amount of time and energy on increasing the “curb appeal” of our home and the last official exterior home improvement we’re performed this year was purchasing one of those fancy new metal house number plaques!

Our old house numbers sign before we painted our house.Our previous house numbers were more than likely original to our house: they were black metal letters that were screwed …

Carpenter bees are large bees that are often mistaken for bumble bees and are known for their destructive and annoying habit of burrowing into dead wood. For homeowners around the world this means that any piece of exposed wood on the outside of home could become riddled with small almost bullet-like holes that serve as the burrow from which eggs are hatched. Wooden decks, wood shingles, dead trees and wooden house eaves and fascia are all prime targets for carpenter bee holes. The holes that the carpenter bees drill will rarely cause any sort of structural damage, …