Archive for the ‘House & Home’ Category

Getting Your Home Prepared for Floods

One of the most destructive elements in nature is water, especially when it comes in the form of flooding. Every year, more and more people deal with the effects of flash flooding, which can destroy property and even personal items that can be never be replaced. Even though no area is safe from flooding, only [...]

Spring Season Safety Tips

Right now, you might be looking around your house thinking about how much cleaning needs to get done. There’s dusting, sweeping, mopping, sorting out old clothes and a whole bunch of other chores swirling through your head. Luckily, you can still get your spring cleaning done before the summer rears its head. While you are [...]

National Flood Safety Awareness Week Tips

Natural disasters often happen without any advanced notice, giving you little time to prepare and protect your home from any destruction. Consider the tornadoes that tore across parts of the Midwest just last week – many people were not ready and were left with rubble where their homes once stood. Although tornadoes may not be [...]

Get Your Home Ready for the Spring

It’s hard to believe that we are still in the winter season, considering that we haven’t seen much snow this year. However, this warm weather should remind you that spring is fast approaching, bringing a number of homeowner concerns with it. Before you start your annual spring cleaning, here are a number of things you [...]

Insurance for You and Your Spouse

The holiday season has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still some excitement in the air. Every year during the holidays, thousands of couples choose to spend the rest of their lives together. In fact, 2011 saw the number of marriages rise due to a number of factors, including the legalization of [...]

Protecting Your Home or Commercial Property in Winter

Winter in the Northeast can be a pretty nasty experience, especially if you are faced with any damage from the ice, sleet and snow that Mother Nature throws this way. In Connecticut alone, the average snowfall every year falls between 35 – 50 inches, less along the coastline. Regardless of where your building is located, [...]

Make a Fire Escape Route

As the biting cold begins to hit Connecticut, the main focus of many households is how to stay warm. We spoke about fire safety a few weeks ago for a number of reasons. For one, the number of house fires goes up exponentially in winter due to poorly placed space heaters and other heating elements. [...]

Holiday Party Safety Tips

With the holiday season in full swing, it is time to start thinking about what you are doing on New Year’s Eve. The list of options goes on and on, with some people staying home and others going wild in Times Square. However, your best choice for the evening may be having your own shindig [...]

Protecting Your Home from Fires in the Winter

As you already know, CT homeowners insurance premiums have been steadily increasing over the last few years, with some homeowners seeing drastically higher bills from their insurance companies. Last week, we shared some information about what you can do to possibly alleviate some of the pricing hikes, like replacing your current home fire alarms with [...]

Protecting Your Home When Premiums Increase

Home insurance is absolutely essential when you consider protecting your investments. In the current economic state, you do not want to risk having any damage occur to your home without some sort of insurance coverage helping you in the aftermath. However, this has become more difficult for many homeowners, especially those with home insurance in [...]