August Home Checklist

August: 10 Things to Do Around Your Home This Month to keep it clean and well-maintained.

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1 Ladies & Gentlemen, start your engines:

Get ready for the carpool season by detailing and servicing the car. At least you’ll start the school year looking good…

2 Play ball!

Or rather, clean ball. In fact, clean all your sports equipment and put it away in the proper place.

3 To air is human:

Open up all the the windows. Refresh your house one last time in August before closing up shop for the winter.

4 Nooks and crannies:

Give your little ones brooms and send them on cobweb hunts. When the last one has been demolished, take the tykes to a movie.

5 Clean cleaning equipment:

Mops, brooms, buckets, vacuum cleaners all get dirty, too. Replace heads on mops, replace brooms altogether, scrub buckets and service the vacuum cleaner. Now: That should work a little better.

6 Oh rubbish!

Clean trashcans, recycling cans, and trash compactor.

7 Special delivery:

Touch up the mailbox with a coat of fresh paint. Get fancy if you fancy.

8 Door of opportunity:

Repaint the front door while you have the brush out. (Wash it at the very least.)

9 Who ya gonna call?

An exterminating company (just ants? you can probably deal with that little item yourself) to make sure your home goes into the winter pest-free.

10 Hot enough for ya?

Get your heating system checked to make sure there are no leaks and no unpleasant surprises when cold weather sets in.

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