Sector index — house-home
House & Home
Continuing coverage of house & home for owners, specifiers and the trades that serve them. Listed newest first.
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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