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People ask what the maintenance plan actually gets them, which is a fair question, because “maintenance plan” could mean anything.

Here is the honest answer for this time of year: it is a walk-around, done in the right month, by somebody who has seen what happens when it is skipped.

This is the fall list.

Outside, before the freeze

Hose bibs and e...

Every October the phone starts up with the same sentence. “I think I need new weatherstripping.”

Sometimes that is right. Most of the time it is not, and we would rather explain why than sell somebody a strip that will not fix it.

We went back through the door calls from this month – five of them. Here is what was actually wrong.

The strip was the problem on...

We are going to spend a whole post on a garden hose, because this one costs more than anything else on the fall list and takes the least time to prevent.

Here is the failure, start to finish.

You leave the hose connected in October. It gets cold in December. Water sitting in the hose cannot drain, so it freezes, and the ice backs up into the spigot and into the ...