December Home Maintenance & Safety Checklist
The month of December has arrived. To keep your home in tip-top shape this winter and throughout the year, here's a checklist of home maintenance and safety items to take care of during December. (For a printable copy of the December Home Maintenance & Safety Checklist, click here.)
13 More December Home Care Tips To Keep Your Home InTop Shape
- Check your windows for drafts and/or cracked panes.
- Check on supplies in the home that would be helpful to have on hand in the event of a weather relted power outage or other emergency... things like batteries, non-perishable food items, blankets, bottled water. Update your emergency kit.
- Replace the furnace filter; vacuum and dust the HVAC system.
- Clean faucet aerators and shower heads. Check hoses for dishwasher, clothes washer, garbage disposal.
- Drain about two gallons from the water heater to prevent/eliminate sediment
- Make sure that any decorative holiday lights are properly working and discard any with frayed or damaged cords.
- Service your generator, if you have one.
- Test and change detector batteries if you didn't do so when daylight savings time ended.
- Clean or replace shower curtains.
- Clean lampshades, window treatments, light bulbs, and light fixtures.
- Disconnect hoses and water supply to outside faucets.
- Check weather-stripping and seals.
- Secure steps and railings (especially outdoors).
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