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According to the Insurance Information Institute, (Facts + Statistics: Homeowners and renters insurance) Water damage and freezing accounted for 27.6% of claims in 2022, up from 2021 by 4%. Each year, about one in 60 insured homes has a property...
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This one piece of advice: “think things through” would have saved me a lot of trouble! In 2010 I rehabbed a home that was gutted after Hurricane Katrina, and spray foam was a new thing. I decided to contract with...
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The first time I left my newly-purchased house on vacation, I was super-paranoid: What if someone tries to break in? What if there’s a storm and a tree falls on the roof? What if a water line breaks and floods...
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Legionnaires’ disease sounds like an exotic disease, and although epidemics of it are not common, the source lurks everywhere in lakes, streams and even drinking water if not properly sanitized and handled. It can be deadly to those who contract...
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A recent Facebook post by Viral Pulse brought up an experiment from 2005 about some wild abilities of English Ivy. Ryan Kim, a teenager at the time, placed moldy bread and canine fecal matter inside containers and measured the particulate...
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