Climate Effects on Housing
This section includes columns on how to prepare for a pending storm along with columns on suggestions and methods to protect your home.
The Siding of Choice for a Climate Resilient Home
With home resilience becoming a major issue given the climate extremes we are now enduring, there are three major areas
Is a Home Generator Becoming a Necessity?
The benefits of a home generator installation are well known to those who live in a rural location or coastal areas
How to Prepare Sheds, Gazebos and Trellises for Extreme Winds
We are all seeing more extremes in our climate and can only expect it to get more intense over
Emergency Readiness for Your Home
I am going to break away from my usual format this week to cover a subject that is filling the
Where Are All Those Shut-Offs?!
A question from a reader who has been following my recent group of columns on insurance made a comment about a home preparation list she found for emergencies.
Here’s Why Garage Doors Get Blown Open
A reader from Manitoba wrote recently “We had our garage door come off its track in a high wind and really made a mess of the inside of
Haze-Free Haven
It’s no secret that summer and wildfires have become two words that are connected in conversations today. An area as big as New Brunswick has burned so far
Climate Proofing Basics
I have an admission here. I am old enough to remember when climate change was called “Spring . . . Summer . . . Fall . . .
A ‘’Where is . . . What Do We Do??”
It seems that natural disasters and extremes in our climate are becoming more predominant every year. I get the question more often during a home inspection “What do