Freeze alarms (also called “high/low temperature alarms”) are one of the best ways to protect your home from costly damage to walls, floors and furniture caused by frozen pipes that leak and burst. Who needs a freeze alarm? Just about everybody who owns a home… Read More
In between football games, apple picking and celebrating Thanksgiving, homeowners need to schedule time for these important home maintenance tasks to prepare for the upcoming winter. Some chores, like changing batteries in your smoke detector, can be done at any time. Other tasks, like shutting… Read More
Before you pack up the car to head south this fall, remember the importance of winterizing your home to protect it from seasonal wear and tear and other potential problems such as freezing pipes, water leaks, break-ins and rodents. Use this handy checklist of winterizing… Read More
Here’s good news for summer homeowners who are about to close up their vacation cottage or cabin for the winter — easy-to-use home monitoring and protection equipment designed to safeguard an empty house. Rather than worry all winter about devastating damage from freezing pipes, invasive… Read More
If it seems like there are more summer power outages than 20 or 30 years ago, you are absolutely right! According to federal databases, the U.S. electric grid has 285 percent more power outages than it did in 1984 when the data collection effort on… Read More
