7 Ways to Winterize Your Home
This past year, my husband and I purchased our first home. As exciting as it is to be home owners, there is a lot of upkeep required! New to the whole home ownership thing and need to get your home prepared for winter? Start with these 7 Ways to Winterize Your Home.
I received samples and compensation in exchange for this post. All opinions are my own.
7 Ways to Winterize Your Home
1. Keep things well insulated. It’s important to make sure that your windows and doors are well caulked to prevent unwanted cold air from coming into your home.
2. Clean our your rain gutters. This is especially important to prevent blockage which could potentially cause flooding. Also, make sure that your gutters extend a few feet away from your home to prevent any foundational water damage.
3. Test your fire and co alarms. Because winter often poses higher risks of fire and carbon monoxide problems, it’s important to check your batteries and make sure all of your alarms are working correctly.
4. Reverse ceiling fans. Did you know that most ceiling fans are able to switch directions? Switching the direction in your ceiling fan (clockwise) allows for the hot air to rise quicker.
5. Cover your AC unit. If your home has an AC unit, it’s important to make sure it is free of debris and cover it before the snow starts falling.
6. Care for your lawn. Before cooler temperatures arrive, be sure to prune back your plants, properly store your lawn equipment, and cover your patio furniture.
7. Change your furnace filters. Before turning on your heat, it’s important to make sure your furnace is working correctly. This includes getting your furnace tuned-up, and switching out your furnace filter regularly.
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These are such excellent tips! We live in an apartment but still need to take steps on keeping us warm during the winter months!
It’s a task that gets easier every year … only had to do a few touch-ups this winter!
My husband just changed our filters and did a lot of the winterizing yesterday (It was warm outside). Love the delivery service.
These are great tips! It’s always great to prepare for winter. Will try your suggestions here!
Thanks for sharing all these important tips about winterizing your home. We live in So Calif where it doesn’t snow but it does get quite cold in winter here, so I found your advice on making sure your house is properly insulated particularly helpful.
We just put plastic on the sun room windows. It helps to keep some of the heat in that room. This weekend we are cleaning out our gutters.
I just finished Winterizing my home. I had to make sure the chimney was plugged up. I will have to get it fixed in the Spring so I can use the fireplace next year.
We just cleaned out our gutters this weekend. I am glad we did, it has been raining ever since. It is important to Winterize your home.
We need to do this now. The winter season crept up quickly!
We would clean out the gutters and make sure the snow blower was accessible.
I would love to get our filters delivered right to our door. I’m sure they don’t get changed as often as they should.
These are all great tips for winterizing your home. We just got central air this summer so I will have to make sure the unit was covered.
great tips! My hubby just actually winterized our house!
These are all really great ideas. It is so smart to prepare yourself for the winter. Not telling how bad it will be.
I actually have that same door mat here! We are all about saving money with winterization in this home!
I always forget to change my filters! Thats for the reminder!
I totally forget about doing the smoke alarms! Thank you for the reminder we will be doing that later on tonight.
Oh wow. I never realized we were supposed to be covering our AC unit for the season. I’ll have to let my husband know about this.
Great tips. We test our alarms every season. The last thing you want is detectors that don’t work!