Prevention is the best medicine for your house, as well as your body.
“We go for our annual checkups to our doctor and dentist, so why not do it for our home?” says Mike Holmes, host of HGTV’s Holmes on Homes.
Annual maintenance will help prevent you from having to make an avoidable, costly repair, he says. For a comprehensive list of important annual maintenance tasks, we consulted with Holmes and other home-maintenance, cleaning and organizing experts.
See Saturday’s Style section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for the handy list to make your house run like a machine.