Home Inspection: A Buyer’s Perspective

After weeks of home shopping, you’ve found a house and signed a contract to purchase. Then the inspector finds problems that need repair — expensive repairs. How should you handle them? You thought negotiating the selling price was all there was to the haggling. Now you have to make decisions on who

Closing Your Bedroom Door Could Save Your Life

One simple action — closing your bedroom door before going to bed at night — could save your life. A practice known in the fire safety field as “close before you doze,” that simple act gives you precious minutes to escape in a catastrophic house fire. The facts about fire Today’s building materials

No Sweat: Self Cleaning Ovens

When baked-on food spills coat the inside of your oven, it’s time for a cleanup. You can avoid noxious oven cleaner sprays and mad scrubbing with a self-cleaning oven. But there are important things to know about using your oven’s self-cleaning feature. How self-cleaning ovens work There are two typ