Posted in: Home Maintenance

Starting a Compost Pile

Fall may be the perfect time to start a compost pile. That’s when you’re most likely to have a natural balance of the best ingredients for good compost in your yard: an abundance of dead leaves and sticks, garden plants…Read More

Winterizing Your Vegetable Garden

It was a hot summer to be sure, and if your garden was like many in the area, it may have gone a little “dormant” when the temperatures went through the roof. Once the normal weather returned, hopefully it woke…Read More

When the seasons change the batteries in your smoke alarms should, too.

Getting ready for fall doesn’t just mean packing up bathing suits and shorts to make room for sweaters and scarves. There are a whole host of things around your home that you should do early on in the fall to…Read More

Spring’s here, but your allergies already know that.

Spring is a beautiful time in Virginia, but so many of us rarely get a chance to enjoy it to the fullest extent due to allergies. Staying inside may not do you any favors, though, if you don’t take the…Read More

Why StyleCraft Homeowners don’t need to worry about Chinese Drywall

The Chinese Drywall problems seemed to come out of nowhere as a media storm kept the issues in the headlines for most of 2009. The truth is that complaints started to come in to Florida’s Department of Health beginning in…Read More