Preparing Your Home for Fall

PREPARING YOUR HOME FOR FALL Have you prepared your home properly for the rigors of fall weather? If not, you're in luck! Check out our Fall Maintenance Checklist to get your home ready to meet the Fall head-on! Get an HVAC inspection - your furnace needs to be in tip-top condition. Inspect your home's outer walls, ceiling, windows, doors and floors - its "envelope" or "shell". Change your return filters on forced air heating There are few things worse than burst pipes in winter, so inspect systems. your plumbing! Get your roof checked out. If you don't take care of your roof, it won't take care of you! Check or install weather stripping at doors, caulk around windows, adding storm windows or window films when applicable. Open curtains and blinds Seal up foundation and driveway cracks because during cold to let sun in through windows to help heat your weather, moisture can seep into home and shut them at these areas and freeze causing night to retain heat. surfaces to crack and split. RESNET. For more information on ways to save energy visit www.resnet.us www.twitter.com/resnetsmarthome RESIDENTIAL ENERGY SERVICES NETWORK www.facebook.com/ResnetSmartHome SOURCE http://www.resnet.us/ © 2013 Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET)