Experts In Your Home Blog

Nothing ruins the day faster than when you realize that your toilet isn’t working the way it should. The question is: can you fix it yourself or do you need to call a Chico plumber? 

So, you’re about to paint one or more rooms inside your home? Great! Home painting can be an ideal way to modernize, add charm and character, brighten or darken, and freshen up a room with relatively little cost. Before you get the brush out and start painting, you may want to stop and read some advice we’ve compiled here at Experts In Your Home. While we provide home painting services, we also cheer on and help inform DIY home projects that you decide to tackle yourself.

To Start, here are some tips we always give regarding painting…then we’ll talk about prep work, primers, choosing colors, and give some very helpful application tips.

Calling a Chico plumber is always a good idea when you find big problems in your plumbing or you aren’t comfortable with fixing the problem on your own.

You may want to grab a calculator. But you'll probably get the idea even without it.

If you brushed your teeth this morning, you probably used 2 gallons of water. Afterward, if you took a shower, you used as much as 5 gallons per minute (though nobody was timing you). Still, that's better than filling a bathtub, which requires about 36 gallons of water.

If you washed the dinner dishes by hand, you probably used between 8 and 27 gallons of water. This may sound like a lot because it is – and it's also why energy advocates recommend using the dishwasher instead. It uses only between 6 and 16 gallons.

Let’s face it, a leaky shower head is more than just a little annoying. The constant drip drip drip can be heard throughout the house and you’ve reached your limit. While you know you need to do something about it before you start to go crazy, you also know that you are not a plumber.

There are two main appliances within a home that are loved by everyone. The first one being the washer and dryer. Not only does it make everyone’s life easier by not having to leave the house to do laundry, but your clothes smell wonderful afterwards.

There's no more important thing to think about for your home than the safety of you and your loved ones. When it comes to electrical safety, you shouldn't mess around. Electrical safety hazards can be potentially life threatening, but the good news is that with proper precautions you can reduce any risk of electrical shock and keep you and your family safe. 

At Experts In Your Home, our Chico electricians are only a phone call away if you have questions or would like to have us inspect your home for electrical dangers. In the meantime, here are some tips for electrical safety in your home:

“Is it cold in here or is it just me?” You may have asked this question enough times in the last few days that you find yourself having to double check what you set your thermostat to. Yet, no matter how many times you double check, you find that you did set it above 68 degrees and it sadly isn’t getting any warmer than 65 degrees.

Your home is a complex structure. The many systems of your dwelling have to all work together to keep your family comfortable and safe. With lots of parts in the whole system it's inevitable that things will go wrong every now and then. You have to be prepared to act when something goes awry.

At some point you are going to need plumbing help in your home. It's just inevitable that you will have an issue on occasion with some part of your plumbing system. Pipes, drains, water heaters and more are going to need repairing and replacing from time to time.