Home Interior Fall Maintenance Tips

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The interior fall maintenance tips is a second part of home maintenance check list series dedicated to routine, seasonal tasks around your house. Visit http://www.checkthishouse.com for more home maintenance tips and to print your schedule.

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips Interior: 

Home Fall Maintenance Tips Interior Preventive Maintenance Tips Before the Cold Season

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior If you don’t feel 100% comfortable with performing some of the following home interior fall maintenance tips - Get a professional help if necessary! Remember - Safety First!

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Evaluate your house’s attic for signs of leaks, moisture, and mold

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Make sure you check attic vents for contamination and clean them if necessary to improve air circulation.

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Make sure your bathroom and dryer vent discharge to the house’s exterior / not into the attic!

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Clothes dryers contaminate your attic with lint, tremendous amounts of moisture, and pose fire hazard

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Cover exposed sections of attic floor with insulation to prevent migration of warmer air from conditioned space into your attic

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Insulate forced air system air ducts located in the attic area

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Have your furnace serviced before winter – ask your HVAC guy about combustion air requirements – important safety issue!

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Replace air filters on regular basis and check air registers and air ducts boots directly underneath the registers for contamination

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Make sure that whole house humidifiers are clean and functional before the cold season

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Replace clothes dryer plastic vent hoses and clean an entire vent pipe between the dryer and exterior vent termination

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Check non-heated crawlspace area for water pipes, insulate them or install heat tape if necessary

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Don’t close crawlspace exterior vents for the cold season if it contains any non-direct vent type fossil fuel burning appliances

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Check your fireplace damper for proper operation and make sure there are no bird nests on top of it. Get your chimney inspected!

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior If your fireplace does not include exterior combustion air supplying channel you should consider such installation

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Check MFG. date on smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors! Smoke – 10 years max. CO – may vary (usually 4-6 years max)

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Replace smoke and CO detector backup batteries at least once per year. More often if necessary!

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Home Fall Maintenance Tips - Interior Test smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors every week. Install interconnected devices if possible

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