Home Interior Fall Maintenance Tips
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The interior fall maintenance tips is a second part of home maintenance check list series dedicated to routine, seasonal tasks around your house. Don't forget to check Home Exterior Fall Maintenance.
Home Interior Fall Maintenance Tips
- 1. Preventive Maintenance Tips Before the Cold Season
- 2. If you dont feel 100% comfortable with performing some of the following home interior fall maintenance tips - Get a professional help if necessary! Remember - Safety First!
- 3. Evaluate your houses attic for signs of leaks, moisture, a nd mold
- 4. Make sure you check attic vents for contamination and clean them if necessary to improve air circulation.
- 5. Make sure your bathroom and dryer vent discharge to the houses exterior / not into the attic!
- 6. Clothes dryers contaminate your attic with lint, tremendous amounts of moisture, and pose fire hazard
- 7. Cover exposed sections of attic floor with insulation to prevent migration of warmer air from conditioned space into your attic
- 8. Insulate forced air system air ducts located in the attic area
- 9. Have your furnace serviced before winter ask your HVAC guy about combustion air requirements important safety issue!
- 10. Replace air filters on regular basis and check air registers and air ducts boots directly underneath the registers for contamination
- 11. Make sure that whole house humidifiers are clean and functional before the cold season
- 12. Replace clothes dryer plastic vent hoses and clean an entire vent pipe between the dryer and exterior vent termination
- 13. Check non-heated crawlspace area for water pipes, insulate them or install heat tape if necessary
- 14. Dont close crawlspace exterior vents for the cold season if it contains any non-direct vent type fossil fuel burning appliances
- 15. Check your fireplace damper for proper operation and make sure there are no bird nests on top of it. Get your chimney inspected!
- 16. If your fireplace does not include exterior combustion air supplying channel you should consider such installation
- 17. Check MFG. date on smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors! Smoke 10 years max. CO may vary (usually 4-6 years max)
- 18. Replace smoke and CO detector backup batteries at least once per year. More often if necessary!
- 19. Test smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors every week. Install interconnected devices if possible
- 20. To print your home fall maintenance tips list visit: www.checkthishouse.com
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