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Stay Warm This Winter With Our 10 Safety Tips

February 13, 2013 by admin

It will have to be a strange day indeed if the Inland Empire residents have to dig their cars out of snow. But we do need to take precautions!

No, it doesn’t get that cold in California in the winters, although the mountains do see snow this time of year. But we dare anyone to tell us they didn’t get shivers up their spine seeing photos and video of the snowstorm back East! Anyone? No, we thought not.

And even though us Californians don’t have much to worry about in the way of freezing temperatures, we are complete “weather wimps” and still bust out the space heaters and start up the fireplaces when the nights and mornings are chilly. [Read more…]

Checklist for January Home Improvements

January 3, 2013 by admin

Some home improvements are easy to do yourself, but for the big jobs, hire a professional.

As a year ends and a new one begins, many of us make resolutions about being more active, eating a better diet, weeding through an old wardrobe or cleaning out cupboards for donations to goodwill. But what about your house? It can’t make these kind of plans to spruce itself up or keep itself in shape to live a long, healthy life the way you can.

So why not give it a helping hand? It’s not just helping your house, it’s helping you in the long run. Regular home maintenance is good for a property, extending its “economic age”, a term meaning the number of years a house is expected to survive. It also ensures safety, prevents those little maintenance problems turning into costly repair projects and can possibly even reduce energy consumption. And, especially in this crazy real estate economy, you want to make sure your home is well maintained just in case you want to sell—it seriously helps the resale value. [Read more…]

Use National Fire Prevention Week to Protect Your Family

October 10, 2012 by admin

Do you know who to call if this happens?

At PDR Inland Empire, we take house fires very seriously. Contrary to how it may seem, we don’t want a lot of fires starting all over our area just because we’ll get more business. We truly care about our customers and their families, and want to make sure that they never have to call us when their house is a pile of ashes. But in case of a fire in your home, we also want to promote the best practices if and when that happens. [Read more…]

Does Renter’s Insurance Cover Flooding and Water Damage?

April 25, 2012 by admin

A faucet is innocent enough, until your neighbor in the next apartment leaves theirs on all night and floods YOUR apartment! Photo: Idea go

When it comes to renter’s insurance, water damage can be hit or miss, depending on the situation and the type of policy. Since water damage is such a common problem, some policies do not cover your personal possessions, only the exterior and sometimes, interior structure of the building itself. [Read more…]

Do You Know How to Maintain Your Home?

March 1, 2012 by admin

Sometimes it’s called a “Honeydo” list. You know the one—”Honey, can you unclog the drain?” or “Honey, can you fix the roof?” It’s hard to ignore the Honeydo list, but it is essential. Why? Because keeping up with maintenance on your home is a lot cheaper than fixing it when something goes wrong.

Your home may be the biggest investment you will ever make, and even though you’d rather be watching the game or playing golf, maintenance is a necessary evil. It’s the best way to ensure it keeps its value and ensures it will provide a comfortable, safe shelter for you and your family for a long time. [Read more…]

How to Prevent Water Damage in Your Home: Part One

January 13, 2012 by admin

A washing machine is more dangerous than you think...

There’s ways to prevent water damage in your home that are just common sense—don’t let your 5-year-old run the bath water for themselves, for instance, or making sure you hire a professional install your windows so you know they are watertight.

But there’s smaller, less obvious ways that you prevent water damage by regularly checking the areas that are most likely to suffer from it. Modern homes have plenty of appliances, sinks, showers and other places where water is merely controlled by hoses, taps or buttons. And let’s not even get into how electricity and water do not mix! [Read more…]

Burning Yard Waste in the Inland Empire, Orange County

December 28, 2011 by admin

Burning leaves in your yard is allowed on certain days, but you can never burn household garbage.

With all of the recent windstorms, many residents in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Orange counties have a yard full of tree branches, bushes, leaves and other debris. It seems like the best solution, and a natural one, would be to burn the debris in your yard, right?

Well, yes and no. [Read more…]

Water and Kitchens Don’t Mix

November 1, 2011 by admin

What looks like a small puddle of water could actually cause damage of over $10,000.

To follow on from our blog last Friday, water is more insidious than you might think. Within minutes of the water leaking or overflowing from some source or appliance in your home, it can get to places you hadn’t even imagined.

For instance, let’s look at kitchens. One would assume that, what with all of the water that runs through a kitchen, that they would be designed to be compatible with and resist water. Dishwashers, freezers, refrigerators with water dispensers—and let’s not forget the kitchen sink and the garbage disposal—all of these are potential hazards for your kitchen.

It’s not just about the water getting under your hardwood or tile floor, as we discussed last week.The kitchen is one of the most overlooked area in the house, and when it’s overlooked, it can become the most expensive place in the house to have water damage. One small garbage disposal leak can spread to all of your kitchen cabinets and start a mold factory. Within a few short weeks, you could be looking at an entire kitchen replacement. [Read more…]

Cleaning Your Water Leak By Yourself—It’s Not Good Enough

October 28, 2011 by admin

Think you got all the water cleaned up? Think again.

We’re sure this has happened to you in the past: The washing machine hose leaks all over the floor, the toilet overflows, your teenager plugged the sink and left the water running…and you diligently mop it all up, thinking “Whew! That could have been a lot worse!”

Well, bad news. It was a lot worse than you thought. There’s water that escaped before you could get to it, that is now running throughout your home. Where? you might ask. Water will always find a way to get to the lowest point, and it will get there through the tiniest of cracks. [Read more…]

Fight Mold in a Healthy Way

October 26, 2011 by admin

What do you do when you see some black mold creeping up in the shower, or underneath the kitchen cupboard? Do you reach for bleach or some other heavy-duty cleanser? It’s tempting, for sure, but let’s take a closer look at what’s in those cleaners. They could be just as bad as the mold itself.

Mold feeds on moisture, which is why we often see it in bathrooms, around sinks and drains and in beachside communities, like Laguna Beach, where there’s a lot of moisture in the air. Mold is not just unsightly, it can cause allergies and trigger asthma, and a new study from the University of Cincinnati indicated that if infants are exposed to mold, it can cause childhood asthma!

And if you see a little mold, it could be the sign of a much larger problem—call us to check it out. It’s better to be safe than sorry, especially if you have small children, or have a baby on the way. “This study should motivate expectant parents, especially if they have a family history of allergy or asthma, to correct water damage and reduce the mold burden in their homes to protect the respiratory health of their children,” says Tina Roponen, lead author of the U of Cincinnati study. [Read more…]