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Storm Windows Provide Inexpensive Protection From Season’s Unpredictable Weather
As everyone who’s ever lived a day in Iowa knows all too well, the weather can go from pleasant to crazy without a second’s notice. Iowa’s famously unpredictable spring weather and its often fierce rain, wind and hail storms can ravage unprepared houses. Fortunately, a simple, smart, inexpensive storm defense system can enable your home’s […]
Best Spring Basement Flooding Defense Is A Good Offense
In your front yard, once mighty snow mountains are melting. In the side yard, ice glaciers are turning to watery mush. In the back yard, hardy early spring rains are naturally constructing a small river. The thaw is on in full force. The signs of changing seasons are everywhere. Exiting Stage Left is the lousiest […]
Is Your Roof At Risk Of A Career-Ending Injury?
As winter 2019 turns your block into a snow globe yet again with another one of its “greatest hits” and your back screams in pain with heavy lift, it’s only natural – trust us, folks – to yell “Enough Already!” to Old Man Winter. If only the pain of this Iowa Winter of Discontent ended […]
How To Beat The Iowa Winter Home Pipe Freeze
As the thermostat plunges further toward zero, the nervous Iowa homeowner prays to St. Sebaldus, the Patron Saint of Fighting Cold Weather, that her home’s aging water supply pipes can withstand the latest polar plunge of a relentless Iowa winter. For many Iowans with older homes, this is a heartbreaking fact of brutal Iowa winters. […]
Behold Savings Power of New Year’s Home Energy Resolutions
These Easy-To-Keep 2019 Efficiency Goals Will Keep Money In Your Wallet & Out Of Your Bill The invisible dollars we don’t see floating from our homes and out of all wallets can be mind-blowing when we finally sit and break down what our home’s energy usage is costing us. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports […]
Beware The Most Deadly Fire Season of Year
Don’t Let Your Family Become A Tragic Holiday Statistic The heartcrushing headlines could come from Any Town, Iowa. December 23, 2017 DAVENPORT, Iowa: Kelsey Clain and her four children perish when their mobile home catches fire. Authorities report the Clain family had no working smoke detectors in their home. Christmas Day, 2017 BLUE GRASS, Iowa: […]