Home Keeping Tasks to Attend to This Year

Unless you look after your home throughout the year, your comfort and the health of your family can suffer. The carpets need to be cleaned, as do the air ducts, and it’s a good idea to clear the gutters and maintain your garden in the spring. Home efficiency is also a key concern, especially with the rising energy costs nowadays. Here are 5 tasks to attend to during the year.      

Carpet Cleaning 

Some homes have wooden flooring throughout – there has certainly been a trend toward wooden flooring in the last few years – but even homes with wooden flooring require some carpeting or a rug. Carpets give the home a sense of comfort; they also provide warmth and reduce noise; the downside is they collect dust and dirt particles that can cause allergies. 

Make sure you have your carpets cleaned at least once throughout the year. Carpets should be cleaned professionally using high-pressure washing and a special cleaning solution. Professional carpet cleaning removes any allergy-causing dust and mites from the fibers improving the air quality and the smell of your rooms. Spring is a good time to clean carpets.  

Air Duct Cleaning 

If you have an HVAC system in your home, then you also have air ducts. Air ducts are the channels through which air from the HVAC travels to either heat or cool your rooms. Of course, most people don’t think about their air ducts very often; they are completely hidden from sight and work well most of the time unless they are blocked, but there is also a hidden danger.   

Air ducts are designed to carry air from the HVAC system, but that also means carrying some dust and particles throughout the home as well. Most air ducts have a filtration system for catching and processing debris – but this gets clogged up and needs to be cleaned. The best way to ensure your home is clean and safe is to book a DUCTZ Air Duct Cleaning service.  

Gutter Cleaning 

There are two times of the year when it is especially important to clean your home and ensure everything is working as it should be; one of them is in the spring, and the other is in the autumn. Arguably, autumn cleaning is more important than spring cleaning because there is the added pressure of seasonal changes. Leaves fall from the trees and end up inside your gutters. 

Again, many people forget to clean their gutters in the fall because they are out of sight and life is busy. If you don’t clear the leaves seasonally, it creates a blockage that can lead to water damage in the upper regions of your home. Don’t let this happen. Gutters are easy to clean if you have some ladders and a bucket, but if you can’t reach them, contact a gutter service.    

Garden Maintenance 

If autumn is the best time of year to attend to the gutters, then spring is the best time of year to attend to the garden. Following a long, sometimes harsh winter period, the spring is a chance to tend to the grass and flower beds that are now coming to life and maybe paint the garden fence that has been weathered over the winter. Garden maintenance can be carried out by anyone. 

One of the joys of keeping a garden is the chance to learn about the plants and flowers in it and to tend to them throughout the year. Spring is an excellent time to clear the garden for the summer months when you can expect the plants, flowers, and insects to thrive. If you delay your garden maintenance, you won’t see the best your garden can offer during the summer months.   

Home Efficiency 

Some of the tasks in this article are best to carry out at particular times of the year; the gutters should be cleared in the fall, and the best time for garden maintenance is in the spring. When it comes to home efficiency, there is never a bad time to reduce your energy consumption and find new ways to reduce your home bills. Try to think about home efficiency throughout the year. 

In winter, it is important to think about insulation and heating efficiency; in summer, you can turn your attention to renewable electricity that generates power allowing you to profit by selling it back to the grid. There are various ways to make your home energy efficient throughout the year, so think of ways to reduce power consumption and generate free power at the same time.