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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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
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Shopping For a Light Bulb? Your Choices Have Changed.
Along with death and taxes, change is an inevitable component of life. We each have to deal with a certain amount of change as we make our way through our lives. And though change is sometimes of our own choosing,… Read More
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Measure Your Light in Lumens, Not Wattage
A form of technology that you’ve used all of your life is going away. Old-style incandescent light bulbs – the technology that Thomas Edison invented more than 130 years ago – are being phased-out. That’s happening because of the requirements… Read More
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How to Care for Winter-Damaged Trees
That snap, crackle, and pop you hear on an icy winter’s morning might not be the sound of your Rice Krispies becoming soggy. It might be the sound of your tortured trees succumbing to their unbearable loads of snow and… Read More
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Doing Your Own Snow Removal? Don’t Forget the Fire Hydrant!
Just a reminder: If you’re doing your own snow removal, don’t forget to clear around the fire hydrant if one happens to be located on your property. In most municipalities, it’s the law. And it’s common sense everywhere. House fires… Read More
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Garage Cleanup: A Great New Year’s Resolution
It’s the beginning of a brand new year. It’s a time when we wish fond farewells or good riddance to the past year, and set our sights upon the future. It’s a time when we customarily pause our hectic lives… Read More