Summer Smarts: Prepare Your Home to Help Beat the Heat

Before you break out the tank tops and shorts, you’ll want to make sure your home is ready for rising temperatures, too

Do the proper repairs and maintenance now to ensure your home is ready for the summer heat. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock

Getting your home ready for summer is about much more than reinstalling the window screens and putting out the patio furniture. Happily, it doesn’t take all that much effort or skill to get your house ready for the coming 90-plus-degree days.

If you haven’t done so already, turn on your air conditioning system. If there’s a problem, it’s better to find out sooner than later. Andrea Davis/Unsplash