saving money on summer electric bills
If this image makes you as irrationally angry as it makes me, today’s Upon Closer Inspection is for you. I hate being hot. I enjoy summer, don’t get me wrong. But this is just punishing heat. When you work from home as many do now, and your kids are still home from school, and it’s…
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We have reached the point in the summer at which I start questioning why I live in Texas, and I mostly just relocate from one cooling device to another in order to accomplish my daily tasks. As I write this, I’m actually in Colorado, where I had hoped for a bit of a reprieve. But…
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As the temperature rises, you may not be too worried about your water heater, but you’d be wrong. In fact, water heaters problems are one of the most common plumbing repairs during the summer months. There are two factors contributing to this. Your water heater is almost always located in an unconditioned space in your…
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We all know that AC care is self care during the summer months, and official summer is just around the corner. Before it gets really hot, and we all start impressing each other with our conversation skills (Is it hot enough for you?), and your social media feed is filled with pictures of people’s car…
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There’s a Nigerian Proverb that goes, “He who lives in the attic knows where the roof leaks.” I think it’s meant to teach us that a person (or people) who live in a place are the experts about it, whether you’re talking about trying to build something in a neighborhood without asking them first or…
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