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How To Keep Your Home Safe While You're Away
Leaving for vacation? Make sure you’ll return to find your home as you left it by following these simple steps. |
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A Pesticide Primer
When pesticides are needed, one should always start with the safest thing and use it only on the target insect. |
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Assembling Your Disaster Kit
When assembling a disaster kit in preparation for storms or emergencies, it is important to consider all eventualities. Make ... |
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Avoiding Flood Damage and Protecting Your Property
Flood protection can involve a variety of changes to your house and property–changes that can vary in complexity and cost. You ... |
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Avoiding Flood Damage: A Checklist for Homeowners
Are you looking for ways to protect your home from flooding? There are many things you can do, depending on the flood hazard ... |
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Backup Power
Brownouts and blackouts cut your home's crucial electrical supply. Backup power systems keep the furnace warm, the ... |
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Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Carbon monoxide poisoning is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in America. Carbon monoxide detectors are ... |
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De-Icing Salts for Slippery Walks
When traveling down an icy path, it helps to know all the alternatives to prevent slipping, sliding, and accidents. |
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Determine Your Flood Risk
The odds may seem like a million to one you'll ever experience serious flooding. But it happens more than you'd think. In ... |
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Electrical Outlets Safety
Electrical receptacle outlets in walls and floors may present shock and electrical fire hazards to consumers. |
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Emergency Shutoffs
Every homeowner should know how to turn off the water, electrical and gas utility systems for the home in the event of an ... |
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Encapsulating Lead-Based Paint
Lead-based paint is a serious health risk in older homes. Today, new products are available that may save the time and expense ... |
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EPA Pressures the Wood-Preservative Industry to Change
With an EPA ban on CCA-treated wood going into effect, are decks going to crumble, picnic tables disintegrate, and play sets ... |
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Fire Escape Planning
More than 4,000 Americans die each year in fires, and approximately 25,000 are injured. Deaths resulting from failed emergency ... |
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Fire-Safe Landscaping
Wildland fires destroy hundreds of homes and acres of land every year across the country. Fire-safe landscaping is an ... |
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Fireplace Safety
More than one-third of Americans use fireplaces, wood stoves and other fuel-fired appliances as primary heat sources in their ... |
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Green Insurance: A New Shade of Coverage
As consumers react to climate change by modifying their behaviors and their homes with more eco-friendly options, a new shade ... |
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Health and Safety Hazards in the Garden
Be aware of the health hazards in the landscape. Hazards exist when using machinery, using tools and using pesticides. |
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Holiday Fire Safety
The holiday season is typically regarded as extending from late November to early January. Using three years of data, the ... |
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Home Air Pollutants
There is a wide variety of indoor pollution contributors - radon, tobacco smoke, household chemicals. Use this guide to ... |
