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House & Home
Continuing coverage of house & home for owners, specifiers and the trades that serve them. Listed newest first.
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Cold Room, Same Thermostat? What Double Glazing Changes and What It Won't
The comfort gains from new glazing are real and easy to trace. The heating bill is the hardest one to pin down. Here's how to tell them apart before you get quoted.
1,356 words · TQL-HOM-991
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Buying With a Tight Inspection Window? Five Checks That Decide Which Level You Need
General inspection, engineer's report, sewer scope, insurer's four-point: how to work out which one your house actually needs before the clock starts.
1,022 words · TQL-HOM-021
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Installer Out of Business? The Paperwork That Keeps a Window Warranty Alive
A window guarantee usually outlives the company that sold it, but only if you can still prove what was installed, when, and by whom. Here is the small file that does that work.
1,173 words · TQL-HOM-104
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Taking Down a Boundary Tree? What That Job Costs Three Years Later, Not on the Day
Boundary work used to be a day rate and a handshake. The bill that matters now arrives in year three, in the bare strip nobody planted properly.
1,225 words · TQL-HOM-046
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Four Years of Entries, One House: Which Upkeep Jobs Were Worth Paying Somebody For
The owner started keeping a log because of an argument about the gutters. Four years later it held about ninety entries and a clear pattern.
1,165 words · TQL-HOM-402
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What Are You Signing When the Restoration Truck Arrives at Two in the Morning?
A crew shows up fast, which is genuinely valuable, and hands you a tablet while water is still coming out of the ceiling.
1,211 words · TQL-HOM-757
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An Average House, an Actual House: Why Generic Maintenance Intervals Rarely Fit Yours
Every interval you have been given was written about a house that is not yours, and the gap between the two is where premature failures live.
1,199 words · TQL-HOM-330
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Three Different Adjusters Can Walk the Same Loss and Only One Works for You
Somebody arrives with a tablet and a moisture meter and introduces themselves as the adjuster. Most homeowners never ask which kind they are.
1,211 words · TQL-HOM-562
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Dry to the Touch in Three Days? Why a Frozen Pipe Needs a Meter
Surfaces dry fast because air moves across them. Assemblies dry slowly, from the inside out, and the difference is a number nobody measured.
905 words · TQL-HOM-375
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Six Years of Leaf Litter: How a Gutter Nobody Cleared Ended a Claim
The call was about a stained bedroom ceiling. The denial was decided six years earlier by a ladder that never came out of the garage.
1,126 words · TQL-HOM-115
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Water Across the Floor at Ten at Night? What to Record Before Cleanup Begins
Everything you are supposed to do quickly to limit a water loss also erases the record of how bad it was. Ten minutes of documenting comes first.
1,021 words · TQL-HOM-584