There is a lot more to owning a home than decorating it and making sure you have the latest upgrades. If you want your home to continually grow in value, you must maintain it. It seems simple enough, but many home owners do not maintain their homes regularly like they should be. Maintaining a home does not mean just keeping it clean, keeping the yard groomed and making upgrades here and there when necessary. Those tasks are important, but they are only a few tasks that should be included in your home maintenance checklist.
A new level of deep cleaning
Cleaning is an important part of maintaining a home, obviously. When most of us think about deep cleaning we think of tasks like scrubbing the bathrooms, dusting the blinds, organizing closets and mopping. These are tasks that might not be done every day, but at least every week. According to My Home Ideas, deep cleaning should mean much more. In order to keep a home in top shape, along with the tasks listed above, other tasks such as cleaning tub stoppers and drain holes should take place. Not only does this keep our appliances working regularly, it saves us from gagging when the drains have to be unclogged after years of built up hair and debris start to settle. It is also wise to clean out aerators, outdoor drain gates and other areas you normally would not think of, but can do damage to a home if they are not regularly cleaned.
Safety checks
A home should be a safe place, and it should be prepared for when accidents happen. Regularly check your fire extinguishers to make sure they are fully charged, and replace them when necessary. Change filters in your heating and air systems to keep the air clean and void of harmful toxins that dust can carry. Test smoke detector batteries and replace them when necessary. Check toilets, sinks, tubs and water heaters for leaks to prevent major flooding. All these checks should take place at least on a monthly basis so you can rest assured that your home is a safe place to be.
Scheduling maintenance to ensure it gets done
It is easy to become overwhelmed with all the maintenance that needs to take place when owning a home, which is why it is wise to create a maintenance checklist so you know exactly when certain tasks need to take place. As mentioned above, safety checks should be conducted monthly, but there are other tasks such as cleaning the grills of a wall furnace or the grease filter on a range hood that do not necessarily have to be done each month. Creating a list helps homeowners stay on task and keep their home safe and running efficiently. Maintaining a home might seem like a lot of work, but it is well worth the effort because it will definitely save homeowners money by preventing potential problems that can be costly.
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Source: myhomeideas.com/how-to/weekend-projects/home-maintenance-checklist
I started the day with a mall trip with Mark. Therein is the only retro store around, Jay Street Video Games. I was looking for Links 2004 on original Xbox because I heard Ryan McCaffrey on IGN’s Podcast Unlocked rave about its great online multiplayer. Yea, there’s no more online multiplayer on original Xbox, I know, but there’s still system link. This was the last golf game Microsoft Studios published before Powerstar Golf on Xbox One in 2013 and I wanted it.
I got very little done gaming wise all week. I collected my Miis by stopping at McDonalds. Most of the time it worked but today I got nothing from going there. I discovered the chicken snack wrap as a good alternative to those dollar cheeseburgers I usually get (I always have to buy something even though I’m only there for the Spot Pass). I finished Find Mii II and started over again. I noticed there is a Secret Quest you can choose from the menu the second time around, so I did that. I think it just added another path on the map screen. I’m almost finished the Fire Emblem Awakening 3D picture in Puzzle Swap. I’m going to do the Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon one next.
Hey you beautiful people. This is what I've been listening to lately.
Hello everyone, how are you all doing? I'm alright, just waiting for Bloodborne to release this next Tuesday.
My previous guest, Adam Howard, returns for this episode!
Hello Pixlbit sorry I haven't been on much but I have been busy well this was my Haul in the PSN Flash Sale I picked up for $6 today did anyone else pick up anything from the sale??
K, I went full Rogue here and wiped my old Windows 7 laptop in order to install the preview version of Windows 10 on it. Other than the crappy res of my 720 p laptop it seems to be running fine at the moment.
What are the best games to get in the Flash Sale?
Gravity Rush for PS Vita is $0.81! OMG!
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/03/20/flash-sale-now-live-deals-under-1/#sf8129038
So if you keep up with news in the video game world you have probably heard about Kojima leaving Konami. From rumors of a falling out between the 2 to him just wanting start something new has surfaced. Now he will stay on board for Phantom Pain, but passed that point is when he speculated to leave. I'm highly concerned over this. Konami still plans to release more Metal Gear games passed his departure not to mention Silent Hills is in a state of darkness since there is not a single light shed on it. I'm saddened by the news but also happy for him because to me it seems he is ready for something new. So what yall think? Think metal gear can live without Kojima? Will we still get Silent Hills or is it gone with his departure?
Good morning Pixlbit Nation! It is a cool 51 degrees here in sunny SoCal, the land where winter is a week. I’m currently running on an odd schedule I think I may have eaten something funky at lunch yesterday, woke up at 4:30am, played some 2K, and then went back to sleep at 6, and woke up at 7:30. I got to sleep in all of 30 minutes from my usual 7:15am alarm. I’m seriously debating on going back to sleep the moment I finish this edition of Quick Hits, but there’s so much basketball today that I might overlook the fatigue and upset stomach. Anyways you folks have better things to do than listen to me whine about nonsense so let’s get started!
You may or may not have heard, but apparently Hideo Kojima, the mastermind behind the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and Konami, Metal Gear's publisher, have had some sort of falling out. If the reports are to be believed, then Kojima will be leaving Konami once MGSV: Phantom Pain releases later this year. As it is, he's classified as an outside contractor now. Kojima has always said he wanted to work on new things, but Konami's reliance on the series (and his inability to leave the series in other peoples' hands) has always led him back. When he said that Phantom Pain would be his last Metal Gear, many fans rolled their eyes and took it with a grain of salt, but it looks like it may be true. Not only that, but Konami has gone so far as to erase his name from everything he was a part of--his team, studio, credit on all of Phantom Pain's logo and marketing, even the game's twitter account. And today, Konami announced that they were searching for a team to make a new Metal Gear, when they should be focused on the one that isn't even out yet. This kind of stuff doesn't happen if there's an amicable split.
Though I've been floating around here I've mostly been sleeping, work is very tiring
Good morning, Pixlbit Nation! How is everyone on this fine day? We're on day two of howling winds and cold temps, but I don't care. My great-nephew Gabriel was born this morning at 6:58, and I can't wait to meet the little guy! I'm hoping to make the trip down this weekend. There will be much spoiling of this child on my part, I have a feeling.
Recently I reviewed a one-on-one 2-D fighting game called Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late. That’s a really long name! When I first started playing it, I thought the characters weren’t that interesting, because they all looked like typical anime stereotypes. But as I kept playing, some of the characters ended up being a little more interesting than I thought. And since I sometimes like to write about fighting game characters in blogs, I’ll do just that with this game right now. Plus I don’t have any other blog ideas anyway.