How to Get Your Gutters Ready for Winter
Taking good care of your gutters is an important step in protecting your home from water damage – but if you’re like most Michigan homeowners, you haven’t really thought about winterizing them. Here’s what you need to know. How to... Read More →
How to Clean Your Gutters
Cleaning your gutters can help prevent water damage in your home – but if you’re like many homeowners, you don’t know too much about doing it. Here’s the scoop on cleaning your gutters to protect your home. How to Clean... Read More →
How to Protect Your Home From Water Damage
Water damage in Michigan homes is far too common – and it’s expensive to fix, too. The average cost to repair water damage in the basement alone is about $2,700, and that’s not counting water damage to other areas of... Read More →
Should You Attempt to Clean Up Mold Yourself?
Mold can be tremendously dangerous. While not all types of mold will kill you, there are some types that can – and the elderly, young children and people with compromised immune systems are at the greatest risk. How Does Mold... Read More →
Smoke Damage: What You Need to Know
Even a small fire can generate a tremendous amount of smoke – and smoke can do irreparable damage to your belongings. If you’re like most people, you take one look at the fire, smoke and soot damage and you feel... Read More →
How to Clean Smoke Damage
If you decide to clean smoke damage yourself rather than hiring a smoke damage remediation pro to come out and tackle the job for you, it’s essential that you do it safely. Use this guide to walk yourself through the... Read More →
How to Clean Soot From Your Walls With Trisodium Phosphate
A popular cleaner for soot and smoke on your walls is a trisodium phosphate solution. Trisodium phosphate, or TSP, is a powerful solution – but it still takes quite a bit of time and effort to clean your walls with... Read More →
How to Remove Smoke Odor From Your Walls
After a fire, the smoke odor can linger for quite some time – and unless you take steps to get rid of it, you’re going to be dealing with it. It can even be so overpowering that the smell can... Read More →
How to Find and Seal Exterior Foundation Cracks
The last thing you want is for your basement to flood – but as Ann Arbor disaster experts, we’ve seen it happen plenty of times. And one of the main reasons that people’s basements flood is that there are exterior... Read More →
Important Medications to Put in Your Preparedness Bag
If you’re like many people, you have a disaster preparedness bag ready to go in the event of a Michigan tornado, earthquake, fire or other natural disaster – and that’s great. But is it stocked with these must-have medications that... Read More →