For home roofs, there are no off days, no offseason and no halftime intermissions. Roofs work every day tirelessly to defend our homes and families from the worst weather nature hurls its way. Roofs simply are the hardest working structures in America. But when should a roof retire after a long career? Like a star […]
In what may unfortunately seem like wet déjà vu all over again, apprehensive Iowa homeowners are again bracing for potentially severe flooding this spring. In a word, the National Weather Service calls Iowa’s spring flooding forecast “grim.” The NWS is predicting a strong threat for potentially serious flooding in eastern Iowa. From the Mississippi River […]
Don’t Sit On Buying Flood Insurance For Your Home, the NWS Warns An optimist would see Iowa’s chances of enduring major flooding this spring as a glass half empty. The Good Lord willing, the Hawkeye State’s creeks and rivers won’t rise too mightily this spring. But the National Weather Service and weather experts are warning […]
In the fine print of most every homeowners insurance policy are these potentially terrifying and expensive words: “Policy does not cover water damage caused by maintenance problems.” While accidental water issues like burst pipes are covered, neglected pipes will be left out in the non-covered code in case of a winter home water damage disaster. […]
Forecasters predict ‘teeth-chattering cold’ and ‘plentiful snow’ for Hawkeye State Beware and prepare, for the Weather Grinch is back. Winter is coming in like a lion in Iowa, leaving many owners of older homes wondering if their houses will hold up like fierce lions, or tap out like lambs. Old Man Winter rarely goes easy […]
Autumn ‘most vital time’ for inspecting your home’s hardest-working element The secrets hard-working roofs keep could fill, well, a roof. Tibetan monks sworn to silence do more talking. Triple deep cover agents have been known to spill the beans more about what’s ailing them than a roof. Roofs plead the fifth more often than a […]
Observation Is Key To Knowing When To Say Goodbye Your 3-year-old daughter starts using the loose hallway floorboards as a teeter-totter. Your beloved poodle Max mysteriously disappears one day while eating his food on the kitchen floor. The dining room floor caves in. Unfortunately, aging floors in need of replacement are rarely this obvious. It’s […]
New State Law Requiring Detectors Designed To Give Homeowners Safe Guard Against Silent Killer No warning. No trace. No odor. No chance. Like a grim reaper in the night, carbon monoxide claims the lives of 430 unsuspecting Americans per year, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Controls statistics. Thankfully, Iowa homeowners will get protection against […]
Know Signs of Walls At Risk of Collapse “Walls protect and walls limit. It is the nature of walls that they should fall.” – English Author Jeanette Winterson No wall stands forever with weak limbs (ever see the Chicago Bears offensive line come the fourth quarter?). Heck, even the legendary, two-millennium-old Great Wall of China […]
Now’s the Time for Iowa Homeowners to Ready Their Flood Defense Plan In one of Mother Nature’s cruelest twists of irony, nearly 10 years to the date of the devastating Iowa floods of 2018, flooded rivers and waters are again threatening numerous towns throughout eastern Iowa. A fury of early June rains have many of […]
