May 2016 Home Maintenance Tips

Monthly and seasonal maintenance will not only help to maintain your home running smoothly they also help to protect your investments and prevent costly repairs. Below, you will find several tips and reminders of household maintenance you’re able to do this month of May.

1. Schedule your spring tune up maintenance, now. The temperature must be 55 degrees in order to have your Heat Pump maintenance done, to prevent any harm to your system. Having a service call completed no with the summer temperatures just a round the corner is never a bad idea here in Florida. Trust us when we say “You never want to go with out AC here in the summer time!”

2. Clean and inspect your gutters. Utilize a garden hose to flush your gutter out and make certain that the downspouts are directing water at least three feet away away from your foundation. This quick little tip can also prevent roof issues. When the gutters get backed up, the water has no place to go and it can get underneath the shingles of your roof and then the wood starts to deteriorate and the next thing you know you see a brown stain on your ceiling showing that water has gotten in some how.

3. Never clean your windows in direct sunlight, they will dry too quickly and cause streaks. Wait until an overcast day or later in the afternoon to wash the inside and outside of the windows. Trust this one, Nick can speak from experience, since our house faces the east so we get morning sun in the front of our house and sunsets over the rear of our house. So what he has done is washed the back windows in the morning and the front windows in the afternoon.

4. Dust ceiling fan blades and reverses the blade rotation. In warm weather they should rotate counterclockwise. Goo dfor us here Florida our ceiling fans typically never go clockwise anytime fo the year. But turning them off and dusting off the blades is always a good idea. We typically will do this monthly, we have on our calendar a reminder to change the filters for our AC system so this is always a good time to clean the fan blades too. We normally will already have the ladder out to change the filters.

5. While unpacking your metal garden and patio furniture for the season, coat them in auto polish before setting them out to protect them.

6. Start early on pool openings, together with mars cite and filter inspections.

Hopefully you use some or all of these tips to help maintain your home. If you have any questions please feel free to click here to get in touch with us.