Tip-Top Shape: Your Fall Home Exterior Maintenance Checklist

It’s time to brace the home for cold weather, winter storms, and more.
Tip-Top Shape: Your Fall Home Exterior Maintenance Checklist
All the things about the home that make it so warm and inviting to us also make it equally appealing to critters. Craig Dimmick/Unsplash
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Proper preparation is key to keeping winter’s bitter chill and associated bugs and critters out and cozy warmth in. It will also help save time and aggravation come spring.

Get out the ladder, and start at the top. Clean out the gutters, and repair or replace any that are leaky, sagging, or misaligned. Be sure to look at the fascia behind the gutters for signs of rotted wood or other indications of water damage from old or improperly installed gutters.

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