It sinks in shortly after you close on your new home: Now that you’ve invested a ton of cash into a property, you get to experience the joy (and continuing expense!) of maintaining it. If it’s your first home, that means a steep learning curve. When it comes to home ownership, you simply don’t know what you don’t know.
When people specify new construction or recently renovated homes in their house search, one big reason is usually a perceived lack of maintenance. A brand-new house, or a house that was recently gut renovated, should be good for at least a few years before materials, systems, and appliances start to show wear and tear that requires maintenance, right?
Testing your smoke alarms
Smoke alarms save lives. But they can only do so if they’re fully operational, so testing them on a regular basis—at least once a month—is a very, very good idea.
Sometimes it’s easy to fall for the fallacy that if a little bit of something is good, a lot of it must be better. If that were true, it would follow that if a certain amount of insulation in your attic, crawl space, or other area of the house is good, dumping a ton more on top would be better.
Your appliances are cleaning themselves
It seems logical, so when someone tells you that you don’t have to clean your washing machine or dishwasher because you’re literally running them through soap-rinse cycles every time you use them, it’s easy to believe. What good could another round of detergent and water do for the interior of a machine constantly soaked in detergent and water? And how could dirt accumulate in there, anyway?
Ceiling fans are powerful tools for making your home more comfortable. They help circulate air, cycling hot air downward and cool air upward (or vice versa, depending on the season). And if you sit under one that breeze feels mighty nice when you’re hot.
Cutting grass too short
Considering how many people seem to think a lush, green lawn is the epitome of the Good Life, you’d think people would be psyched about the amount of work that goes into maintaining one. You would be wrong—most people hate maintaining their lawn, and would pay dearly to not have to mow them as often. That leads to the circulation of a popular myth: If you cut your lawn super short (like, brutally short) it will take longer to grow back, so you have to break out the mower less often.
The summer comes, the temperature rises, so you turn on your air conditioning system. Then you go out for a few hours—so you turn it off. After all, why pay to cool down a house when no one is there?
"Cleaning" garbage disposals with eggshells and lemons
Garbage disposals aren’t as useful or necessary as people might think, but if your home has one you’re going to use it. If you use it, you already know that it can get grimy and stinky, and the blades can dull just like any other blade. And you might think that dropping some eggshells down there will help sharpen those blades, and dropping some lemons in there will get rid of that stink.
In actuality, those eggshells won’t do anything to sharpen a blade, and they might even break them. If they don’t break the blades, they will likely cause a blockage somewhere in the system, because they cling to the sides of pipes. And a lemon might mask the stench coming out of your disposal for a short while, but it will more likely combine with it to create some new, terrifying smell because lemons won’t do anything to deal with the underlying cause of the stink: grime.
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