There is a lot more to owning a home than decorating it and making sure you have the latest upgrades. If you want your home to continually grow in value, you must maintain it. It seems simple enough, but many home owners do not maintain their homes regularly like they should be. Maintaining a home does not mean just keeping it clean, keeping the yard groomed and making upgrades here and there when necessary. Those tasks are important, but they are only a few tasks that should be included in your home maintenance checklist.
A new level of deep cleaning
Cleaning is an important part of maintaining a home, obviously. When most of us think about deep cleaning we think of tasks like scrubbing the bathrooms, dusting the blinds, organizing closets and mopping. These are tasks that might not be done every day, but at least every week. According to My Home Ideas, deep cleaning should mean much more. In order to keep a home in top shape, along with the tasks listed above, other tasks such as cleaning tub stoppers and drain holes should take place. Not only does this keep our appliances working regularly, it saves us from gagging when the drains have to be unclogged after years of built up hair and debris start to settle. It is also wise to clean out aerators, outdoor drain gates and other areas you normally would not think of, but can do damage to a home if they are not regularly cleaned.
Safety checks
A home should be a safe place, and it should be prepared for when accidents happen. Regularly check your fire extinguishers to make sure they are fully charged, and replace them when necessary. Change filters in your heating and air systems to keep the air clean and void of harmful toxins that dust can carry. Test smoke detector batteries and replace them when necessary. Check toilets, sinks, tubs and water heaters for leaks to prevent major flooding. All these checks should take place at least on a monthly basis so you can rest assured that your home is a safe place to be.
Scheduling maintenance to ensure it gets done
It is easy to become overwhelmed with all the maintenance that needs to take place when owning a home, which is why it is wise to create a maintenance checklist so you know exactly when certain tasks need to take place. As mentioned above, safety checks should be conducted monthly, but there are other tasks such as cleaning the grills of a wall furnace or the grease filter on a range hood that do not necessarily have to be done each month. Creating a list helps homeowners stay on task and keep their home safe and running efficiently. Maintaining a home might seem like a lot of work, but it is well worth the effort because it will definitely save homeowners money by preventing potential problems that can be costly.
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Source: myhomeideas.com/how-to/weekend-projects/home-maintenance-checklist
Again, it has been while since I last wrote. I was actually keying up to write about some of the new anime shows I have been watching on WordPress but I just read today that there’s malware in some peoples blogs. I am going to refrain from using it until I know it has been solved; I have no idea if I am one of the people whose blog got affected, so I figure better safe than sorry. Plus I wouldn’t want to have you guys get infected with malware by clicking on my link.
So, I’ve survived my shift on Black Friday (impressing my coworkers for some reason) and received my copy of Persona Q, at which I told my folks to call for an ambulance if I’m not out of the GameStop in 20 minutes. Now the question is how is the game? Just follow the link here.
Started the day out with a breakfast burrito from my freezer. Then I went to my usual Starbucks and got a grande iced coffee with mocha and two rivet shakers from Philly Pretzel Factory right next door. Then I made my way to Mark's place to play video games and watch the football game.
a whole day earlier than the Monday, August 25th schedulded maintenance. A group called Lizard Squad is claiming responsibility for this.
My friend's Xbox 360 hard drive stopped reading discs today so we couldn't play EDF 2025. With a closer look, we saw that it was full of. . . ZOMBIES!!!
With Nicole and occasionally Joe posting motivational messages I got the urge to revisit Deteriorata which is a spoof of the motivational Desiderata Found Here
I played a bunch of Borderlands 2 yesterday with MADKRAMMER, picked up Tales of Vesperia, and preordered Fable Anniversay this morning.
Since my last update, I've spent a lot of time on the road, five hundred miles added to my odometer since Friday. One baby shower and a wedding later, I'm exhausted and looking forward to a day of vegging out on the couch. Which I can do now that Bill the Contractor has finished in my bathroom. I should have taken before and after photos, but I didn't. It's very nice now, and I'm glad it's done.
Since the subject of women and gaming is all over the internet these days, I figured “what the heck, why not?” and I'm going to weigh in on it once and for all.
Hello all! Here is my weekly update! Today, I have some food, games and a bent Mailbox!
Exceptionally bored today. My gaming buddy got himself a girlfriend, my other friend was busy doing maintenance on his car, and my girlfriend was busy with chores, so I spent the day in Starbucks writing and thinking about games. After starting to freeze from the air conditioning after about three hours, I left to do some shopping. I had $20 left after buying the Season Pass to Bioshock Infinite, so I went to Best Buy and priced some of the games I mentioned in my previous blog about 2012 stuff I still needed to play. Not finiding anything for $20 or less, I went to Walmart and found Far Cry 3 at $20. (They had Assassin's Creed III for $20 too but I had to stay with my budget and leave it be for now).
Just throwing this up there in case anyone has missed it. PSN will be down tomarrow for part of the day. From Blistered Thumbs:
So i have been on quite a buying spree late, so i picked up Too Human today for $3 and it got decent ratings so i grabbed it.
Well, I've been meaning to post about this all day, but it's been hectic and I didn't have internet connection for the majority of it. Regardless, I have some intense site maintenance that I'm going to be performing tonight around 11:59 PM EST. As such, the site will be unavailable for around 15 to 30 minutes.
Did anyone miss me? Probably not, there are lots of other really good blogs on here to keep everyone entertained.
Thought I’d catch you all up. My property manager/land-lord peeps have been going hog wild with inspections. The first one was the standard normal maintenance inspection. The second one was a led paint inspection. And the third? As they didn’t leave the exact time they’re coming or the reason why I couldn’t tell you. I will say it’s getting annoying and this is not the first time my property manager has stepped on my toes. Three inspections in the same month? Cripes, do they think I’m harboring drugs or something?
In film, “popcorn flick” often holds a negative connotation, but like any genre it comprises both good and bad works judged by their own set of standards. Resident Evil 6 is a popcorn game and despite a few misguided design choices, it’s a damn good one.
Click. Click. Click. It’s hard to believe that a game that’s entirely based around mouse clicking can be as entertaining, addictive, and all-consuming as Diablo III is. Blizzard took twelve years to deliver the third release of their dungeon-exploring, monster-slaying, loot-hoarding series, and it was entirely possible that this game wouldn’t deliver on over a decade of anticipation. I’m here to tell you that Blizzard did indeed deliver and as soon as I’m done telling you exactly how amazing this game is you can count on me going back in for more clicking, carnage, and loot. Often imitated but never duplicated, Blizzard has given a powerful reminder of who the king of the click really is.
So I'm looking at the case for my copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I haven't really looked at it or read the manual, which is something I like to do. So I removed the awesome albeit unnecessary slipcover and check it out, admiring the cover art and reading the various tag lines and descriptions on the back. I look at the case itself and it's virtually the same so I open the case and pull out the manual to read. At this point, I discover that behind the manual is a little high quality piece of paper with printing on one side only.
