Home Interior Fall Maintenance Tips

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Preventive Maintenance Tips

Before the Cold Season

Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior

If you don’t feel 100% comfortablewith performing some of the followinghome interior fall maintenance tips -

Get a professional help if necessary!

Remember - Safety First!


Evaluate your house’s attic for signs of leaks, moisture, and

mold


Make sure you check attic vents

for contamination

and clean them if necessary to improve air circulation.


Make sure your bathroom and

dryer vent discharge to the

house’s exterior / not into the attic!


Clothes dryers contaminate your

attic with lint, tremendous amounts of

moisture, and pose fire hazard


Cover exposed sections of attic

floor with insulation to

prevent migration of warmer air

from conditioned space into your

attic


Insulate forced air system air

ducts located in the attic area


Have your furnace serviced before winter – ask your HVAC

guy about combustion air requirements –

important safety issue!


Replace air filters on regular basis and check air registers and air ducts boots

directly underneath the

registers for contamination


Make sure that whole house

humidifiers are clean and

functional before the cold season


Replace clothes dryer plastic vent hoses and clean

an entire vent pipe between the dryer and exterior vent termination


Check non-heated

crawlspace area for water pipes, insulate them or

install heat tape if necessary


Don’t close crawlspace

exterior vents for the cold seasonif it contains any non-direct vent type fossil fuel

burning appliances


Check your fireplace damper

for proper operation and

make sure there are no bird nests on top of it. Get your chimney

inspected!


If your fireplace does not include

exterior combustion air

supplying channel you

should consider such installation


Check MFG. date on smoke and

Carbon Monoxide detectors!

Smoke – 10 years max.CO – may vary (usually

4-6 years max)


Replace smoke and CO detector backup batteries at least once per

year. More often if necessary!


Test smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors every

week.

Install interconnected

devices if possible


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