If your home is a relatively new one, chances are good that you have window panes with at least two layers of glass. This technology, called (you guessed it) double-pane windows, can be tremendously important to reducing sound transfer in your home, but more...

Colder temperatures in the winter months are often a catalyst for homeowners to start thinking about their home's heating system. Toward the beginning of winter especially, they may start to wonder if it's working as well or as efficiently as it ought to be. If you've...

Radiant floor heating is very popular in some parts of Texas, since it's a nice way to heat your home without having a lot of bulky heating elements taking up valuable floor space. For some warmer years, this is important, since homeowners may not be getting extensive...

Mold can not only be unsightly and smelly, but it can also be deadly. It's a common problem in many areas of the United States, and most homeowners aren't aware of its' danger or how to prevent it until it's too late. However, there are plenty of simple, effective...

For our second post in the "Cool Stuff in Your Home" series, we'd like you to go inside your bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room, and see if you can find the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter. Sorry, that's a long name. Let's just call it a "GFCI" like most people do....

For this post and our next one, we'd like to turn our (and your!) attention to a couple of helpful things in your home that don't usually get a lot of fanfare. The first thing we'd like to show you is the bendy piping underneath the drain of your sink. It's called a...

While summer may be officially over, this is a good time to consider how your air conditioning system held up to what you've thrown at it in the past few months. Has it been working as efficiently as you're used to, or does it seem to be slowing down a bit? If you...

Have you noticed that people seem to be spending more time indoors than they used to? Sure, the pandemic hasn't really helped a lot with that, but even beyond that, technology, bad weather, and office jobs are just a few significant things that have caused people to...

If you spent some time thinking about the way your home is used during the summer, you may be surprised at how different it is compared to other months of the year. Just take one system in your home as an example - your plumbing. During the summer months, the weather...

The attic is one of the areas of a home where most homeowners never go but can be one of the biggest sources of serious issues. Most attics are difficult to access, and even if you can make it up there, it can be difficult to look closely at what's going on up there....