Category: Winterizing Projects & Services

Fall Plumbing Maintenance Every Homeowner Should Do by November 30th

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Most fall plumbing maintenance tasks are performed with two goals in mind: preventing water damage to your home or high water bills caused by breaks and leaks related to frozen pipes. These fall maintenance tasks do not take long and can save you big when we get freezing temps this winter. Many Charlotte residents don’t

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Clubhouse Winterizing Guide for Homeowners Associations

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Clubhouse Winterizing Guide for Homeowners Associations Every January we get hammered with calls from HOAs because of poor clubhouse winterizing. Pipes burst and water damage results, much of which could be avoided if proper precautions were taken in autumn. Share this article with your apartment complex or neighborhood HOA and prevent costly damage to your

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Fall Plumbing Maintenance Every Homeowner Should Do This Autumn

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Fall Plumbing Maintenance Tips Every homeowner knows that spring cleaning is a must. What you might not know is how much your plumbing system needs an annual deep cleaning, which we recommend you perform each fall. Combine winterizing efforts with this year’s fall plumbing maintenance and set yourself up for a great holiday season and

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Protect Your Plumbing System When Aerating and Re-seeding Your Lawn

If you haven’t aerated and re-seeded your lawn yet, you’ll want to get going on that soon! Here in Charlotte, homeowners are practically down on their knees begging the fescue to grow in the obstinate clay soil. The best way to coax the grass into growing is to lay down lime (to neutralize acidic soil),

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How to Safely Thaw Frozen Pipes

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Say you had big plans to do everything we suggested in our blog post on avoiding frozen pipes, but things got a little busy. Household projects, Christmas preparations, football season...life got in the way, and you never got around to getting things winter-ready. And now, thanks to colder-than-usual temps, you have frozen pipes. Yikes! Now

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