Blog: Innovative Restorations Team

When a senior parent moves in with you, it’s important to make your home safe and easy to navigate. By identifying and addressing safety hazards, you can help your parent maintain independence for as long as possible and enjoy their time with you.

In the winter, cold air and moisture can seep into the crawl space underneath a home. If this happens to your home, you'll notice it from the cold floors, increased heating bills, and even broken pipes that froze under the house.

Damage to your house can be a very serious situation for any homeowner. It may also be very hard to learn what to do to correctly handle the situation.

Warped walls are a common scenario when your walls sustain water damage. Drywall and surrounding structures absorb water and excess moisture, causing them to warp or bend. You might also notice discoloration on the surface, as well as peeling or flaking paint.

A sump pump is an essential part of your house that helps keep rain and groundwater from getting into your basement. So, you need to maintain your sump pump regularly to keep it functioning correctly. Otherwise, your basement can get flooded when there is heavy rainfall.

Normal maintenance on your house's plumbing system might go a big method in preventing greater problems from happening. Below are some maintenance tips that will assist in reducing the amount that you will need to be contacting a professional plumber. 1.

When your plumbing system stops working properly, you suddenly become acutely aware of how much you depend on it. Some plumbing problems, like a slow drain or a dripping faucet, are to be expected as your house grows older.

You can prevent your oven from collapsing right before a big meal or your dishwasher from breaking mid-cycle by performing simple appliance maintenance on your own.

In crawl spaces, excess moisture or condensation is a common problem. Evaporation of soil moisture causes constant condensation in crawl spaces. This high-humidity atmosphere is the perfect breeding ground for mold, mildew, and fungus.