Home maintenance and Repairs
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Home maintenance and Repairs
As a homeowner, you will soon find that there are a lot of things that will breaking every year. If you go out to hire someone for each and every repair, it will easily cost you 1000's of $, as any service is very expensive in USA. You will probably give the same hourly rate as what you make in hiring someone,and that is if you lucky. So, we'll save that money and try to learn to do it ourselves. You can think of the money saved as extra non taxable pay. The learning that you gain as DIY is un measurable.
Garage:
The one thing that goes bad in your garage is your garage door. Installing a garage door by yourself is NOT a DIY. I would be surprised if your house didn't come with a garage door already installed. Most of the times, there will be issues with the automatic garage door opener (Chamberlain Brand for ex). At that point, you might have to replace it or fix it, which is certainly a DIY. Or fix the sensors on the side, or issue with the wireless button on the side of the garage outside your house. These are all DIY, and don't cost much.
Plumbing:
Plumbing is the one of the highest cost repair after the AC. Plumbing and AC are 2 things, that you can't do much about. With an AC, may be you can live for a couple of days/weeks, while you shop around, but plumbing issues need to be taken care of immediately.
Cracked Pipes: There are both copper and PVC (plastic) pipes carrying water in and around the house. The drainage pipes taking waste water out of your house are all PVC pipes. Most of the pipes going under the ground are also PVC pipes. It's easy to get cracks in these PVC pipes 9usually the ones in your yard). Number 1 reason is someone just hit the pipe while shovellingor digging. Calling a plumber isn't required, as this can be fixed for couple of dollars.
How to fix PVC pipes in your yard => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NWmdlvVIQ
Electric:
Installing lights/Fans:
Very easy to install a fan, if the box is already there in place. It will take good 2 hours to do it, but is well worth the effort. You can get a very good fan with lights for about $50-$100.They regularly go on clearance for 75% off at HomeDepot and Lowes, usually after summer. So, no reason to pay full price.