We expect a lot from our garage doors, and we expect them to open every time, on demand. But, honestly, when was the last time you gave yours a little TLC?
Are you aware the garage door is the heaviest and largest single piece of moving equipment around your home? For the safety of your family, pets, and guests, performing periodic maintenance on your automatic garage door system is a necessity.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, every year about 43,000 people are injured in and around swimming pools and more than 600 people drown in home or public pools. But half of pool fatalities occur in the yards of single-family homes.
Eleven Pool Safety Tips from the Insurance Information Institute:
An all too common injury for men over the age of 45 is falling off a ladder. Thus, it is very important to be cautious and know your ladder when ascending or descending from roof surfaces. If you are not comfortable on a roof, you can always use binoculars. Also, don’t forget to check for overhead electrical lines when carrying your ladder to the access point and again when walking on the roof. Check the roof sheathing from the attic for deterioration BEFORE walking on the roof. And do not walk on tile, slate, or wet and/or mossy wood shingles/shake roofs.
If consumers are willing to accept advertising on their cars, in their personal lives and on their social web pages then why not their homes as well? That, indeed, is essentially the premise behind a new initiative from California-based mobile ad startup Adzookie, which just this week launched an effort to turn homes into giant advertising billboards.