6 Fast Home Updates for April

Keep your home in working order this spring with these quick tasks

By Katelin Hill

In honor of National Window Safety Week (April 5–11), inspect your home's windows to ensure none are painted or nailed shut.

Changing direction each time you cut the lawn will help grass blades grow upright, not tilted in the direction you mow.

The softer soil makes it easier to remove the entire root.

Give the system a whirl now so that you'll have plenty of time to schedule a service call, if needed, before the pros get booked up.

Make sure you're watering your yard, and not your driveway, house, or sidewalk; you'll save water and avoid rotted siding.

If guest baths haven't seen company in a month or longer, run faucets and flush toilets to keep traps from drying out and causing unpleasant odors.

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