Maintaining Your Home

For homeowners, the responsibility of maintaining your home can be simple with proper planning. Just like with owning a car, keeping up with regular repairs and maintenance can prevent major problems from happening. It’s always better to spend a little more time and money to maintain your home now in order to save yourself from any headaches down the road. Taking the steps to keep you and your home in good shape can save money, ensure your loved one’s health and safety, while increasing the value of your home. For expert advice, check out The Housing Hour, a very useful site dedicated to all things home related.

Home Safety Statistics 

Regular home maintenance can be the difference between life and death for you or your family. In the daily news, there are often reports of disasters that could have been prevented. Luckily, you can prepare for the worst by safeguarding your home. Here are a few alarming safety statistics on home damage collected by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Fire Protection Association:

• Each year, fires caused by clothing dryers exceed 75 million dollars! These fires are completely preventable with proper maintenance. To learn more, listen to this Fire Prevention podcast from the folks over at The Housing Hour.
• Garage door accidents injure an average of 20,000 US citizens each year.
• Smoke alarm failure with sprinklers and fire extinguishers causing 15,260 injuries, including 2660 deaths.
• Electrical fires due to bad wiring, fuses, and circuit breakers totaled at 38,300, including 120 deaths.
• Radon poisoning is responsible for an average 14,000 deaths each year according to Environmental Protection Agency

No one wants to be included in the above statistics, and it’s never fun to think about the health and safety risks you and your family may face. The good news is that with proper maintenance and knowledge, you can avoid common health and safety risks involved in the upkeep of your home. If you don’t properly maintain your home, it may be harder to sell and cause you greater problems down the line.

Benefits to Maintaining Your Home

Your home represents your success and hard work, and only good things come from taking care of your investment. There are many reasons why you’ll want to keep up on cosmetic repairs, as well as health and safety prevention.

• Protect the value and integrity of your investment
• The satisfaction of owning a beautiful and well maintained home
• Peace of mind knowing that everything is in working order
• Bring your home’s value up to maximum potential by keeping it in good repair
• Save money on appliance and component repair and replacement
• Prevent avoidable repairs, reducing costs
• Keep your family safe by reducing health and safety hazards
• Improve the look and curb appeal of your home
• Having everything in working order

Energy Efficient Options for Your Home

Go Green and save money by using efficient systems to lowering your utility bill. There are many options that technology offers homeowners to conserve energy. Almost any device can be controlled remotely to monitor your energy usage. Many homeowners are opting to use wireless, cloud based lighting and energy management systems. These popular new systems are not only energy efficient, but they also save homeowners money.