Completed My Home Spring Maintenance with HomeAdvisor

 Entry #2413, May 13, 2013

Over the past week my outdoor home has been transformed with spring maintenance projects! If you missed the first post – ProjectHome – Spring Maintenance on My Home with HomeAdvisor you will see the 3 projects I chose for my spring maintenance with HomeAdvisor.

What spring maintenance do you need done in your outdoor home?

Image via: Peter Zimmerman Architects

My gutters, driveway, and dryer vent were all the subjects and were they in dire need of help or what?! 🙂

Last week I showed you the Profinder site helps you identify up to 3 professionals in your area based on the projects you choose. I was amazed to see all of the different options for spring maintenance. Here’s how I chose my service professional.

Front of my home after my outdoor spring maintenance projects

Selecting a HomeAdvisor service professional 

The HomeAdvisor ProFinder is great because it asks you step by step what you need. What is your projects, what repairs are needed, what troubles are you experiencing, etc.. Once you enter your zip code it will start to filter through professionals in your area.

Selecting a HomeAdvisor service professional online

You can write specifically what problems you’re experiencing.

The system will come up with 3 professionals that best suits your needs

I chose the Zill Service, Corp:

The Window Gang (Zill Service Corp) were awesome! Very professional. They came out to give me an estimate and walked me through each of my projects:

• Cleaning out the gutters
• Pressure washing all of the sidewalks and driveway
• Cleaning out my dryer vent

I chose the Window Gang here in Jacksonville, Florida

Before & After pictures of the Gibson House:

1. Gutters:

For most homeowners that are trying to obtain a green roof – this is not what they mean! We live in a 30-year old neighborhood with mature trees all around. While it looks beautiful, the trees drop seedlings all season and so our gutters literally grow weeds and mini trees until we clean them out. So this was #1 on the list for us.

The gutters in the back of the house are worse, where there are more trees.

Before

What a gutter transformation!

After

Gutters side of my house!

Before

Gutters are free of debris again!

After

2. Sidewalks:

Since our sidewalks are older they have cracks, but worse of all – they are black in many areas due to age and all of the tree debris from around our home. We hope to get all the walkways cleaned to help the walkways and driveways look clean and refreshed.

Here are Before & After of our sidewalks:

Sidewalk at the front of our home

Before

The sidewalks are almost white again!

After

Backyard walkway

Before

We never liked our walkways before due to the dirt and grime. Now they are perfect… now its time for landscaping!

After

3. Dryer vent cleaning – 

So as I told you before that they couldn’t find my dryer vent from the exterior. Well bad news, the Window Gang traced my dryer vent  into my attic where it isn’t vented to the outside of my home. Instead it is blowing into our attic! EEK 🙁 This can start a fire!

I was so happy that they told me. I am now in the process of getting a heating/air conditioning duct professional out to my home to see what can be done.

In the meantime – the Window Gang was still able to dig out all of this lint from the lower part of our dryer vent duct…. EEEWWW!

Behind our dryer before the duct is removed

Before

Lint buildup from the duct removed

Dryer vent lint… this is how house fires start!

After

So needless to say – this home maintenance project could have saved me my home! I’m so glad we got it done. Thanks HomeAdvisor.

That completes my spring maintenance projects with HomeAdvisor. What spring maintenance do you need in your home? Get started at HomeAdvisor by hitting the ‘Get Started’ button below:

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