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Friday, March 21, 2014 The Southern Illinoisan HOME STYLE

Home Maintenance Calendar Do you tend to forget important home maintenance checks? We’ve compiled the major tasks, concentrated in Spring and Fall, to make them easy to remember. Post this calendar in your kitchen for all to see. Or, add the items to your personal calendar to ensure that no small task goes undone.

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Appliance

Exterior

Building Integrity

Safety

Cold-Weather Climate

It helps to attach each month’s chores to a date that’s memorable, for instance, the date of a recurring

credit card payment.

NOVEMBER Clean (and store) garden tools

Clean (and store) patio furniture

Clean gutters and downspouts

Check smoke/CO detectors, fire extinguisher (Daylight Savings, Nov. 2)

Clean refrigerator coils

OCTOBER Check outdoor faucets and drains

Take down window screens, weatherstrip doors and windows

Bleed radiators (steam-heat homes only)

Remove air conditioners

Check attic for insulation

Check roof & chimney for leaks and issues

Trim trees and shrubsMAY

Check basement for leaks and cracks

Check outside walls for damage

Clean gutters and downspouts

Clean deck (pressure wash or otherwise)

Clean refrigerator coils

APRIL Wash windows

Put up window screens/screen doors

Reverse any weatherproofing measures you took before winter

Spring Maintenance Fall MaintenanceMARCH

Check smoke detectors, CO detectors, fire extinguishers (Experts recommend this twice a year, coinciding with the Daylight Savings switch – March 9 this year)

Schedule A/C or furnace check

Water heater – flush sediment and check anode rod

SEPTEMBER Clean the chimney and fireplace

Schedule A/C or furnace check

Pump septic tank

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The outside of your home needs as much

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Here’s a rundown of the most important exterior

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One expert recommends that you make a regular trek around your home; try to look at it like a first-time visitor would. That way, you’re more likely to notice things that need to be taken care of.

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easy to neglect the home exterior. One culprit could be a lack of attention, says Sabine Schoenberg, founder of Green-wich, Ct.-based home improvement site SabinesHome.com.

“You don’t catch whether your driveways or gutters are in bad shape because you go into ‘auto mode’ when you come home for the day,” Schoen-berg says. “You come home so often, that you don’t pay attention to what’s around you.”

Fortunately, there is an easy way to solve this: Every month or every quarter, view your home as if you’re a first-time visitor.

“Every so often you should go around and perform your own visual home inspection,” Schoenberg says. “I know we are all busy, but if you look at your home like a visitor would, you’re more likely to find the cracks in the founda-tion, the cracks around the windows and the stains in the driveway.”

Here, home maintenance experts give tips on how to stay on top of exte-rior issues:

Driveways Lynda Lyday, a contractor, carpenter

and home-improvement author, says that driveways are often one of the most neglected areas of a home. That’s because they are outside in the heat or cold 24/7.

“I’m a big believer in the pressure washer,” Lyday says. “That’s especially true for the concrete driveway.”

Lyday recommends that homeowners should pressure-wash their driveways every few months to wash away oil stains and other unsightly messes. It’s equally important for homeowners to apply new sealer to their blacktop driveways every two years to keep cracks from forming.

Gutters It’s important for homeowners to

clean their gutters at least once every season. Stopped gutters can cause water to puddle along the edges of a home. It can be costly if that water leaks into a residence’s basement.

Lyday says not to forget the down-spouts. Many owners clean their gutters but then forget to unscrew their down-spouts and clean out any clogs in them. A clogged downspout can also result in large pools of water around the edge of a home.

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Underground drain lines Schoenberg says that 99 percent

of homeowners forget to check their underground drain lines. This could be a costly mistake. In older underground systems, especially those made of clay material, tree roots can clog pipes enough so that they are only working at 20- to 30-percent effectiveness.

“That works during most rain events. But if you get a real heavy rain, your whole drainage system might back up into your basement,” Schoenberg says.

Homeowners should hire plumbing experts with drain cameras to look for blockages every few years, she says. Owners with older drainage systems should do this every year.

Decks Wood decks suffer when they are

exposed to either too much sunlight or too much shade. Schoenberg recom-mends that homeowners seal their wood decks every few years to preserve the material and make it last longer.

Windows It’s easy for windows that face north

to become overgrown with mold and mildew. That’s why Lyday recommends

that homeowners every season use a push broom and garden hose to scrub around the base of their windows. This should remove any vegetation or mildew that builds up around them.

For Lyday, taking care of a home’s exterior mostly requires common sense. She believes, for instance, in the power of binoculars.

“Say you need to check on your gut-ters,” Lyday says. “Get a pair of bin-oculars and look up into those gutters. See what is inside them. You might be surprised at what you find. Exterior maintenance is often about this kind of common-sense approach. You need to keep up with it to prevent it from becoming a bigger job.”

The grass isn’t necessarily greener when you spend more resources on your lawn and garden.

Sustainable landscaping can help conserve water and save money, plus you can avoid using expensive and damaging chemicals. Here are some tips for maintaining your gardens with “green” techniques:

1. Instead of chemical-ridden fertilizers, try natural

alternatives, says Sabine Schoenberg, founder of home improvement site SabinesHome.com. Used coffee grounds are especially effective for acid-loving plants such as azaleas, tomato

plants, roses and boxwood shrubs.

2. Don’t throw away the wood ash from your fireplace,

Schoenberg adds. This product works as a natural fertilizer for alkaline-loving plants such lilac bushes, hydrangeas, irises and daisies. It will also help keep rabbits, slugs and other pests away.

3. Wood ash can help with composting, too. If your

compost pile isn’t breaking down fast enough, or if it smells, try spreading some wood ash on it. It will reduce the odor and help break down leaf piles more quickly.

4. This may seem like it goes without saying, but be

judicious about watering the lawn. Only run the sprinklers before the sun comes up or after it goes down to ensure the water won’t simply evaporate off the blades of grass.

5. Choose native plants to reduce the amount of care

they’ll need. For instance, in an arid climate, foreign plants can require a lot of water. Depending on where you live, you might be breaking water-use regulations if you plant the wrong perennials, bushes and trees.

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“Exterior maintenance is often about this kind of common-sense approach. You need to keep up with it to prevent it from becoming a bigger job.”

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Those who plan more ambitious home projects can go beyond the standard screwdriver and hammer to make com-pleting them a breeze.

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Forget the chunky level with hard-to-read bubbles in neon yellow liquid. Use a laser level to hang an assortment of items, such as picture frames, shelves and flat-panel TVs. Rob-erts recommends a laser level for both its usefulness and compact storage.

Protect Your Walls “People put a lot of holes

in walls,” Roberts says, from hanging shelves to pounding picture frames into place. An electronic stud finder can take the guesswork out of the process.

Plus, you can avoid of unsightly pockmarks from a few too many blows from a hammer.

• The screwdriver, hammer and pliers are the trifecta of multipurpose toolbox basics. A screwdriver turns into a putty scraper or mini pry bar. Both a hammer and pliers pull out nails, while the latter keeps them in place.

• A paintbrush is great for more than just touch-ups. Sweep up debris around your workspace and use the end to poke through small spaces.

• An underrated addition to your toolbox is a pencil. Small markings (easily

erased) can be the difference between hanging a shelf correctly or doing it twice. Use it as a general tool to scoop, scrape and prod.

• There’s almost no end to duct tape’s uses. Patch up holes, reinforce binding and make a number of temporary repairs.

• A ball of string or twine can be a lifesaver. Lay out pieces of string to outline your project or measure objects that don’t neatly fit

around a ruler. Bring out the rope for planks of wood and larger materials.

• Cut, file, clip, sharpen and perform dozens of other actions with a real “multitool” like a Swiss Army knife.

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without the right safety products. Protect your eyes with high-quality goggles, your ears with earplugs, your hands with thick but pliant gloves and your nose and mouth with a mask, depending on the project.

Think ahead for which safety supplies you’ll need in a bind – electrical tape, for example. “Very often you see a live wire you don’t know what to do with. The best thing to do is take the electri-cal tape to cover it up,” says Sindi Landman, Shapot’s partner at The Think Tank.

Have a little one at home? Keep chemicals, blades and pointed edges tucked away with child-safe locks, and always have a first-aid kit nearby.

Home improvement blogger Mag Ruffman knows that many people fear power tools.

But as an expert well versed in all things home improvement and renovation, she encourages everyone to give power tools a shot.

An electric drill gets the job done faster, and it also can be used for more than one purpose. Shut off the power and it becomes a

manual screwdriver. Add a paddle attachment, and mixing paint becomes a breeze.

When used properly, electric saws need not be feared, either. Neither will break the bank for most DIYers.

Ruffman especially likes cordless tools for the freedom that they allow users. “You’re not tethered to a workbench,” she says.

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See the Light Whether the power goes out in a storm or a project

calls for investigating a hard-to-see corner, a good flashlight is crucial. Especially in the event of an emergency, you don’t want to find yourself without a reliable light source.

Reliability is one reason that tool experts say you shouldn’t skimp on a cheap flashlight.

Pry It Open Got a stubborn door that won’t stay shut

or open wide enough? A good pry bar should do the trick. Its skinny flat blade gets into the toughest spots around the home.

“You always have a door sticking where you have to pry something off,” Ruffman says. The same goes for tricky cabinets and drawers. A pry bar also does double-duty by removing nails from objects.

Odds and Ends Don’t forget to stock your toolkit with the vital bits and pieces to complete your

projects. Always keep enough fasteners, nails, screws and bolts on hand, and place them all in separate compartments to keep them neat.

Shapot calls Elmer’s Glue an indispensable tool, but your project might call for rubber cement, which is perfect for paper, or heavy-duty super glue that can bind materials like metal and wood.


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When it comes to cleaning the house, many tools and sundry items wind up in the garage. If

your garage, like many others, is not particularly organized, those items may never be found again.

In a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, Lehigh Consumer Products LLC found that not only does garage clutter annoy home-owners, it is literally a pain: Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they tripped over garage items, and 27 percent had hit an object opening their car door.

The key to making the most of this space is to keep it clean and organized.

Time It Right The changing of the seasons is a great

time to look into your messy garage. Whether you roll the task into spring cleaning or use a fine autumn day when you put away lawn and garden tools, a scheduled once-over of this perennially disorganized space is due.

It takes at least a day, maybe more if you choose to paint or install shelves or other organizational systems, says Lisa Jacobs, New York-based professional

organizer at Imagine It Done.The garage and basement are usually

the two biggest repositories of clutter in any home, Jacobs says. “Getting started is the worst part. It can feel very over-whelming.”

It may be tempting to browse the wide array of organization products (from spe-cialized shelving to motorized lifts that store items close to the ceiling) before tackling the collected junk. But, experts say a sort-and-purge of existing clutter should be the first step.

Get Prepped All it takes is one motivated person

to tackle the job, but it’s probably bet-ter if two people can work together, says Denise Lee, National Association of

Professional Organizers, St. Louis chap-ter president.

Heavy objects might require two lift-ers, plus, it helps to have a second opin-ion on sorting decisions, Lee explains.

Anyone pitching in should take safety precautions. Gloves with rubber or leather palms protect against cuts, and eye protection and breathing masks may be necessary if there’s lots of dirt and dust, Lee says.

An ample supply of contractor-quality trash bags (available at hardware stores) and empty boxes are also necessary for the organizing ahead.

Smart Sorting “The aim is to touch each item in the

garage just once as you’re clearing out

everything,” says Scott Roewer, a Wash-ington D.C.-based professional organizer at Solutions by Scott LLC.

Pick up and then deposit in bags or boxes labeled as “trash,” “donate,” “recycle” or “keep.” The “keep” pile can be divided into like categories, such as garden or sports equipment.

An “undecided” box as well as a “to be repaired” bin can be helpful, too, Roewer says.

Everything should go into a box or bag, and then set in one area of the garage or in the driveway.

Check the weather report before leav-ing things outside, cautions Lee.

The floor usually requires a washing down, and “you may want to brighten up everything with a paint specially made for garages,” Lee adds.

A New Plan Now, the work switches from physical

to cerebral. “Consider where you should place things,” Lee says.

Frequently used items should be accessible. Things that need to be loaded and unloaded into the trunk frequently, like sports equipment, Roewer says, should be near the car. Things that must remain out of reach from kids should be placed high.

For those who decide the garage could descend into clutter again without better storage, a bevy of do-it-yourself as well as professionally installed shelving, cabi-nets, tool tables and the like are available.

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If regular cleaning tasks sound tedious to you, imagine a home appliance giving out while your in-laws are visiting.

“The hot water heater will usually expire when you need it the most, during the holiday season when everybody’s using

it,” says Glenn Haege, host of the popular radio program “The Handyman Show with Glenn Haege” in Michigan.

With some regular upkeep, many of these disruptions can be avoided. “Preventative maintenance is always less expensive … than when something breaks down,” Haege says. “It usually breaks down when it’s a stress period, like extreme weather.”

Here are some items that need regular clean-ing, plus a few of the unexpected materials (Tang and food color-ing?) you can use to make them shine.

Dryer Vents Cleaning out the dryer

vent is important for the machine, but it’s also a necessary safety precaution. Lint can build up and clog the dryer vent, which can cause fires. “That’s one of the largest reasons for insurance claims in the United States,” says Charlie Schloegel, gen-eral manager at Schloe-gel Property Solutions, Kansas City, Mo.

You can buy a brush kit and DIY, or hire a professional. Either way, sweep the line from the back of the dryer to the exterior, and then run a vacuum hose to pull out additional lint, Schloegel says.

Dishwashers If dishes are coming out of the dish-

water streaked or filmy, it’s time for a deep cleaning.

The product for the job is surprising: Tang orange drink mix.

The citric acid breaks down excess deposits in the dishwasher, Haege says. Dump the entire jar of dry mix into the dishwasher and run it. Do this two to four times a year, he says, depending on whether or not you have a water softener.

Drains “Obviously people should be care-

ful [of] what goes down their pipes so that you’re not putting excessive food or grease down there,” says Julia Strzesieski, marketing coordinator at Cole Hardware, based in San Francisco.

In addition, maintain the diameter of the drains, where things like hair and soap can build up. Drain openers can be too harsh for this job, so pour one cup of a solution containing bacteria and enzymes down the drain once a month, Haege says, to keep drain walls clean.

Driveways and Walkways If you live in a cold climate, melted

snow can seep into cracks in driveways and sidewalks. If it refreezes, it can break

up concrete even more.Maintenance doesn’t

end with winter weather. “Hose down your driveway and those flatwork areas to get the salt out of them so they don’t continue to break up over the summer,” Schloe-gel says.

Toilets Here’s a fun one.

Take leftover food col-oring from baking or cooking projects, Haege says. “Pour it in the back of the toilet and wait three hours.”

Then, if the color leaks from the tank into the toilet bowl, it’s time to replace the flap-per ball. Maintaining this will save house-holds a few dollars every month.

Refrigerators “One of the biggest culprits of failure

on a refrigerator is a condenser motor,” Haege says. At least twice a year, clean the dust off of the condenser coil, which is located underneath or on the back of the refrigerator, depending on the model. Don’t forget to disconnect the power first.

Locks In the wintertime, use a dry lubricant

on car and garage door locks. This will keep moisture away and allow locks to move freely, Haege says. This is particu-larly useful for garage doors. “The hinges of the door need lubricity in the winter-time, or it puts a strain on the motor.”

Regular cleaning habits will keep your home running as smoothly as a well-oiled machine

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