ProjectHome – Spring Maintenance on My Home with HomeAdvisor

 Entry #2366, May 1, 2013

Springtime is in full swing and it always seems like over the wintertime we completely neglect our outdoor homes! Even with me living in Florida where the winters are mild, for us we think it’s cold! 🙂 So we still don’t keep up our outdoor homes as we should. Once the weather becomes warmer it’s officially time to get started on our spring maintenance checklist. So I was excited when HomeAdvisor asked me to pair with them in showing how their Spring maintenance services offered by professionals in your area are perfect to help you tackle your spring maintenance tasks.

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.

What spring maintenance projects do you want to get done?

Image via: HGTV

Here are just a few of the spring maintenance options HomeAdvisor professionals offer:

• Give your home a good spring cleaning with a maid service (read below how you can win a chance for 3 months free maid service!)
• Clear gutters and downspouts
• Duct and vent cleaning
• Power washing your walkways/driveways, patio/porch
• Carpet cleaning
• Window washing
• Disinfect grout & tile
• Air conditioning servicing
• Weather proofing your home
• Prep your lawn for play – removing debris

 So I chose these 3 spring maintenance projects:

Clear gutters and downspouts
Duct and vent cleaning
Power washing your walkways/driveways, patio/porch

A clean gutter should look like this – Ours doesn’t look like this

Before 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.

Gutters side of my house!

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.

This is how a fresh and clean sidewalk should look

Here are pictures of ours:

Sidewalk at the front of our home

Backyard walkway

3. Dryer vent cleaning – 

Your laundry room dryer vent should be cleaned regularly

Dryer vent fires are on the uprise in many people’s homes. So we will be getting our dryer vent cleaned out too! I can’t show pictures because we can’t find the exterior vent. 🙂 Once the professional comes out – we will let you know where it is.. he he!

Determining the cost of your project:

If you remember back in October I paired with HomeAdvisor to install wood flooring in my home. One of the great options is using the HomeAdvisor’s Cost Guide to help you estimate how much the average cost of your project could be in your geographic area in the United States. It gives you a range from low, middle and high and is a good way to get a feel if you are budgeting enough for your service to be rendered.

Get started at HomeAdvisor

Choose your project and where you live

See the range of prices for your project

Next week you will see how I chose my professional for my gutters, pressure washing, and dryer vent cleaning! Until then – get started at HomeAdvisor by hitting the ‘Get Started’ button below:

Start Here for your Spring Maintenance Project:

Want to win a chance for 3 months worth of free maid service?

From May 6th – May 16th enter for a chance to win 3 months of free maid service!

HomeAdvisor’s Spring Cleaning Contest Information:

Use HomeAdvisor’s Cost Guide tool to find out the average cost of a maid service in your city. Submit that cost on our entry form found on HomeAdvisor’s Facebook page May 6^th-16^th to be eligible to win 3 months of free maid service.

Check back next week as the Gibson house gets spring maintenance!

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Note: I am a voluntary participant in the HomeAdvisor Blogger Network. I have been asked by HomeAdvisor to review their products in exchange for compensation.  As always, all opinions are 100% my own.