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Mold – The Biggest Threat to a Healthy Home
This blog post is a continuum of the previous posts – Flood Damage, Mold and How to Start Rebuilding your home Floor Damage After a Hurricane or Flood Post-Flood Improper Drying: What Risks Your Home is Facing Since the catastrophic hurricanes have hit Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico, we want to help you understand your homes environment and how to keep it as safe and healthy as possible. That means knowing how to prevent the growth of mold in your home. First, let’s get a better idea of what “Mold” really is – All molds are a type of fungi and they come in a variety of colors,…
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Post-Flood Improper Drying: What Risks Your Home is Facing
Flooding can be a scary result from many different circumstances. Although with this years catastrophic Hurricane Season that has caused countless homes to be subjected to incredibly high flood-waters, there are things in every home that can cause flooding as well. Just think of all the possible aspects of a home that are capable of causing flooding or some kind of water-damage, it may be something as small as nails in your roof that weren’t sealed, slowly leaking for years and years…. with nowhere for the water to go, your homes’ interior structure will soak it all up. It may sound harmless, but eventually, the damage will be visible…
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Flood Damage, Mold and How to Start Rebuilding Your Home
Water is, without a doubt, the most powerful natural force on the planet. It can erode a mountain creating vast caves and caverns, turn massive rocks and minerals into mere sand particles, and worst of all, do a lot of damage to any home. How prepared can a homeowner really be for potential flooding? Knowing ahead of time what documents your insurance company will ask for, gives you a head start when it’s time to re-build. Here are the basic things you’ll need to know, and the documents you’ll need in case flooding ever occurs in your home. DOCUMENTS TO FILE YOUR INSURANCE CLAIM – Protect your important irreplaceable documents-…
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Backyard additions – Great ideas for your homes’ summer project – Part 1
The summer weather is in full effect, here in the northeast, and that means spending more and more time outdoors. Besides the weekend barbecues, and trips to the lake, spending time in your own backyard is sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Finding great ways to stay occupied in your own backyard isn’t a difficult task. If you’re a homeowner, you’ll probably be able to relate that theres always something needing to be done. Weather there’s grass needing to be cut, or weeds that need to be pulled, you can usually count on having some kind of maintenance that is just waiting to be checked off the seemingly endless “to-do”…
