Quick & Easy Window Home Maintenance Tips Are the windows in your house in need of some TLC? Here are some tips for clean, efficient, long-lasting windows that are sure to brighten the whole home up! If not properly cared for, windows can be costly to replace. Avoid having to replace your windows altogether with these …
These ten plants have bug-repelling superpowers It’s finally summer in North Carolina! If there’s anything we North Carolina residents know, it’s that when summer arrives, so do the bugs. As much as we’d like to spend all of our time outside enjoying the beautiful weather, sometimes the bugs can make it impossible. Sure, you could bathe yourself …
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Winterize Your Home With These Simple Steps Calling all Charlotteans –winter is on the way! Make sure your home is ready to withstand the cold weather in the coming months by following these 8 simple steps. If you need any help along the way, be sure to give Killingsworth a call! 1) Replace your furnace …
Common Household Molds & How To Prevent Them Mold is one of the biggest threats to your safe and healthy home. Molds are fungi that grow in warm, damp, and humid conditions both indoors and outdoors. They reproduce by making spores–spores can survive extremely harsh environmental conditions (even dry conditions) that normal molds cannot. It is unknown …
Natural Ways to Control Your Indoor Humidity You might be surprised about how many factors can affect your indoor air consistency. It can change if parts of your house are in direct contact with sunlight, if the outside air is cooler than the air inside, how many people you have in your household, or even what you …
Why You Need To Aerate And Overseed This Fall What do you think of when it comes to Fall? Is it the start of football season? Pumpkin-flavored-everything? Crunchy leaves underfoot? No? How about aeration and overseeding? Yeah?! That’s what we think of, too! Aeration and overseeding are lawn maintenance techniques used to revive fescue grass …
How To Identify The Snakes You Spot Charlotte is home to tons of wildlife. Many we welcome with open arms – the birds that wake us up in the morning, the squirrels that run beside us on the trails – but what about the ball of snakes found in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago? …
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Clean your indoor air with houseplants! We’d all like to think of our home and office space as places where we are safe and healthy. After all, the majority of us as humans spend more than 90% of our time inside! Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Furnishings, upholstery, synthetic building materials, cleaning products, and other household items …
Prepare your Father’s Day plans in Charlotte now! Father’s Day is a celebration of all the great fathers and father-figures in our lives. This year, Father’s Day falls on Sunday, June 17th! How are you planning on spending the day with your dad? Here are a few things going on in and around Charlotte that would …
Where To Inspect Your House For Potential Leaks There’s a reason for the saying ‘April showers bring May flowers!’ April is a rainy month and if your house isn’t prepared, it is also a very leaky month! Make sure you take care of these house parts for a dry, secure home. 1. Roof Get your …
