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• Frugal living tip #44.

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 473
  Silence Dogood here, with another Frugal Living Tip from Poor Richard’s Almanac. This one’s about getting your home ready for winter, and it’s courtesy of the newsletter in our monthly bill from our electric utility company. They suggest removing any cracked caulking around doors and windows and recaulking to ...
  5 days ago

• Tips for preparing your home for winter

  
  Home Buyers & Sellers Homeowners — Authority: 120
  Here in the Midwest, the mornings are starting out a bit nippy . Hovering in the low 30s makes for lively stepping across hardwood floors at dawn’s early light. Although not necessarily “gentle,” the falling temperatures are a reminder that it’s time to get the house ready for winter. Here are a few tips ...
  5 days ago

• It’s that time again …

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  … autumn is in full swing and winter isn’t far behind. If you haven’t winterized your home, now is the time. Depending on where you live this could be a quick afternoon of mild chores, or an entire operation to get your house ready for worst Jack Frost can bring. The first step should be checking out the heating ...
  5 days ago

• Easy Lawn Winterizing Tips

  
  Life and Lawns — Authority: 91
  Now that it is November, many of you are thinking that your lawn care for the season is over. Trust me, I understand you are looking forward to putting up Christmas lights and getting all snug by the fire, but don’t let that lawn go to bed just yet! Winterizing your lawn is pretty easy guys, and very very ...
  1 week ago

• Passionflower, Fuchsia, Lemon Verbena and More – Tender Plants are now in for Winter. Except the Fig

  
  Leslie Land — Authority: 114
  It’s a ‘Chicago Hardy’, reputedly among the toughest, this year’s shot at zone denial. The goal is to have it live outdoors all winter,  without dying down to the roots. But our part of the Hudson Valley is still zone 5b, though teetering on the edge of 6, and figs are not hardy north of zone 7.  So what ...
  1 week ago

• More Electrical Outlet Sealing

  
  Garden Gnome at Home — Authority: 114
  Electrical outlets can result a considerable source of air leakage and infiltration. A couple of posts ago I discussed sealing and insulating electrical switches on outside walls. This is necessary to eliminate as much air infiltration as possible thus reducing drafts. If you take a good look at the actual metal or ...
  1 week ago

• Recovery Act Tax Credits Help Homeowners Winterize and Advise from IRS

  
  Huntsville Alabama | Mortgage loans | Credit cards | car loans | Apartments | Rent | Real estate — Authority: 434
  People can now weatherize their homes and be rewarded for their efforts. According to the Internal Revenue Service, homeowners making energy-saving improvements this fall can cut their winter heating bills and lower their 2009 tax bill as well.The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), enacted ...
  1 week ago

• Cold Busters

  
  Garden Gnome at Home — Authority: 114
  My childhood home was definitely not energy efficient! It was a small 2-story home with dirt floor walk-out basement. The gas hot water tank was in the basement. My Mom kept bushels of apples, potatoes and home canned foods down in the basement aka dungeon. The main level was heated by 2 natural gas space heaters ...
  1 week ago

• Cut Back on Home Heating Costs this Winter with a Portable Heater

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 162
  Although some natural gas customers are receiving a bit of relief in home heating costs this winter, it’s still expensive to very expensive to heat a home for 5 or 6 months out of the year regardless of what source of fuel you use. American Consumer News has previously discussed some strategies to cut back on home ...
  2 weeks ago

• Winterize Before the Snow Flies

  
  Used Semi Trailers — Authority: 98
   Winterizing a Trailer No matter what type of trailer you have, it’s important to keep it updated for the winter. Trailers that are not properly winterized are liable to receive damage and be unable to work properly. In addition, it may have a much shorter lifespan if you do not winterize. Preparing your trailer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Fall Home Improvements For That Extra Daylight Savings Hour

  
  Home Improvements Depot — Authority: 106
  Most of the United States will be turning their clocks back one hour for “Daylight Savings Time” this coming Sunday, and I thought it would be a good time to mention a few quick and easy home improvement projects you can with that all that “extra” time you have!We’ve been taught for years to replace [...]
  2 weeks ago

• 28 Cash-Saving Ways To Get Your House Winter Ready [Home]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 775
  Brrrr! Its getting cold and its time to get the ol homestead ready so Jack Frost isnt picking your pocket through your unsealed windows and faulty furnaces. In the comments section on the popular " 9 House Fixes To Save $ Before Winter Starts " post you guys left lots of great ideas on how youre getting prepared this ...
  2 weeks ago

• 28 Cash-Saving Ways To Get Your House Winter-Ready [Home]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 775
  Brrrr! Its getting cold and its time to get the ol homestead ready so Jack Frost isnt picking your pocket through your unsealed windows and faulty furnaces. In the comments section on the popular " 9 House Fixes To Save $ Before Winter Starts " post you guys left lots of great ideas on how youre getting prepared this ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ultimate in Winterizing Water Pipes

  
  Garden Gnome at Home — Authority: 114
  Sometimes winterizing involves closing up a house or cottage for the winter months and this is typically the time for doing that winterizing. When it comes to dealing with winterizing there really are two options available. The first is to leave some type of heat source on or use a pipe heater and hope there is no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Five quick tips to get your home ready for Winter

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 546
  These are five easy things you can do to get your home ready for the chill of winter.  Being proactive winterizing your home can result in substantial savings in the cost of heating your home. Roof repairs : If you can safely get onto your roof to inspect for missing shingles or other factors that may lead to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Winterizing Electrical Switches

  
  Garden Gnome at Home — Authority: 114
  It is extremely important with the ever increasing cost of home heating to continuously be on guard for any points of air leakage or infiltration. Sealing these cracks and crevices achieves a few goals. First it keeps cold air out and heated air inside. Eliminating the drafts make your home feel more comfortable as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effective Vehicle Winterizing–Now’s The Time To Start

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 491
  You might well think that totally winterizing your vehicle is basically limited to keeping the antifreeze topped off and keeping the battery charged.If AAA is to believed, and let’s face it, we’re talking about Triple A here so they probably ARE, then there’s a whole lot more that we’re all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Winterizing Yourself & your Vehicle

  
  WonderExploreBelieve w/Brian Brawdy — Authority: 110
  To call it an irony is a complete under statement! Yesterday I spent the morning with KDVR reporter Dan Daru highlighting tips for winterizing your car, yourself and your family. Dan & I discussed lifesaving technologies and gear from HEMA Road Atlas , SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger , SOG Knives , and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sealing Drafts

  
  Garden Gnome at Home — Authority: 114
  Winter is just around the corner so its time to increase the draft sealing efforts. While draft sealing should be an ongoing project year round, catching any new air leaks as they appear it is the quickly approach heating season that serves as a reminder to get sealing. For those considering adding more insulation, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Winterise Your Koi Pond

  
  Prime Lawn Care — Authority: 124
  Winter is coming, and this could be the first Winter that you go through with your Koi pond. Think of Winter as a down period for your pond, as less events happen during Winter than any other time. (...)
  5 weeks ago

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