The Money Pit Home Improvement Podcast

The Important Window Label You Need to Read | Avoid These Mistakes When Selling Your Home | Is Vampire Power Sucking Your Energy? | Ep #2267


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SHOW NOTES:

  • Window Shopping: If you’re shopping for new windows, you need to know how to read this important label.
  • Home-Selling Mistakes: When selling your home, avoid these kitchen trends that will scare off buyers.
  • Saving Energy: Some appliances can run on standby power even when they’re off, wasting energy and costing you money. Here’s what to do.

    Plus, answers to your home improvement questions.

    • Fireplace Drafts: There are drafts blowing in all around Susan’s manufactured fireplace. We’ll tell her how to see if it’s installed correctly and how to stop some of the drafts.
    • Metal Siding Repair: Wade is fighting the insurance company to have his storm-damaged steel siding replaced appropriately. We explain why he should get a public adjuster to make sure the job is done right.
    • Shower Odors: Phew! There’s a foul odor coming from the shower in Heidi’s basement. We suggest using a Borax solution to scrub inside the drain and installing a humidistat timer to make sure the fans are venting long enough.
    • Driveway Drainage: When it rains, it pours…right down the driveway and flooding the front of Rob’s shop. We’ve got step-by-step instructions on adding a culvert across the driveway to intercept and drain the water runoff.
    • Home Maintenance: Greg wants to be sure he’s keeping up with maintenance on his new home. We talk about the most important systems to check.
    • Roof Leaks: Cindy’s corrugated metal roof keeps leaking around the screws and gaskets. Her best options are to add another layer of roof with an ice and water shield in between or to remove the original roof and start over.
    • Home Heating: Will installing a drop ceiling help with heating a home with high ceilings? We agree that it will and encourage Kerry to add insulation on top of the ceiling, too.
    • Uneven Floor: A dip in the floor of an old house is starting to twist the stairs. Deb finds out it would be easier to change the staircase than to raise the floor.

       

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