Then LED light bulbs are good enough to light up your landscape, too! If you’ve been enjoying the benefits of landscape lighting for a while, you’ve probably been using incandescent bulbs in your system. But that’s about to change –… Read More
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Could Your Home Be TOO Energy-Efficient?
Once upon a time, even the most well-built homes were drafty to a degree. There were lots of tiny little nooks and crannies that allowed inside air to flow out, and outside air to flow in. Then in the mid-1970’s… Read More
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Snow Mold: A Wintertime Threat to Your Lawn
Bread can go moldy. So can cheese, meat, and many other food items. But lawn grass? Yep, that too. In fact, there’s a type of mold that can develop on lawn grass during the dead of winter. It’s called, appropriately… Read More
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Troubleshooting Common Wintertime Garage Door Problems
Those of us that have celebrated quite a few birthdays sometimes have a tendency to become a bit creaky, cranky and slow-moving during the chill of winter. And the same is often true of our garage doors. If you’re going… Read More
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Lower Your Energy Bills by Insulating Your Garage Door
It’s the largest door to the largest room of your house. We’re talking about your garage door, of course. And if your garage door is like many, it might be one of the biggest sources of heat loss in your… Read More
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Drat Those Darned Drafts! Four Easy Tips for Finding Them.
If you’re living in a drafty home, wintertime can be particularly rough. It sometimes seems as if you just can’t stay warm. Even after piling on so many layers of clothing that you feel like the Michelin Man, those darned… Read More
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Four Simple and Free Tips for Keeping Your Home Warm
If you’re like lots of people, wintertime presents you with the never-ending struggle of choosing between cost and comfort. You’re continuously faced with the decision of whether to jack up the thermostat and stay comfortably warm, or choose thrift over… Read More
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Doing Your Own Snow Removal? Be Careful Where You Dump That Snow!
It happens countless times every winter: some hapless homeowner suddenly finds himself ticketed and fined for improperly removing the snow from his property. How the snow is removed isn’t the issue, of course. It’s where the snow is dumped that… Read More
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Don’t Forget About the Tons of Snow Overhead
Snow on your driveway, snow on your walkways, snow on your porch steps – it’s all a big pain in the rear. Unless, of course, you use TLC’s snow removal services to take care of keeping that snow cleared. But… Read More
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Your Home’s Final Frontier
“Space. The final frontier.” If you’re a Star Trek fan, you recognize those four words from the beginning of every episode of the original series. Space may be the final frontier on a cosmic level. But in your personal world,… Read More