The interior fall maintenance tips is a second part of home maintenance check list series dedicated to routine, seasonal tasks around your house. Don't forget to check Home Exterior Fall Maintenance.

1. Preventive Maintenance Tips
Before the Cold Season

2. If you don’t feel 100% comfortable
with performing some of the following
home interior fall maintenance tips -
Get a professional help if necessary!
Remember - Safety First!

3. Evaluate your
house’s attic for
signs of
leaks, moisture, a
nd mold

4. Make sure you
check attic vents
for
contamination
and clean them if
necessary to
improve air
circulation.

5. Make sure your
bathroom and
dryer vent
discharge to the
house’s exterior /
not into the attic!

6. Clothes dryers
contaminate your
attic with
lint, tremendous
amounts of
moisture, and
pose fire hazard

7. Cover exposed
sections of attic
floor with
insulation to
prevent migration
of warmer air
from conditioned
space into your
attic

8. Insulate forced
air system air
ducts located in
the attic area

9. Have your
furnace serviced
before winter –
ask your HVAC
guy about
combustion air
requirements –
important safety
issue!

10. Replace air
filters on regular
basis and check
air registers and
air ducts boots
directly
underneath the
registers for
contamination

11. Make sure that
whole house
humidifiers are
clean and
functional before
the cold season

12. Replace clothes
dryer plastic vent
hoses and clean
an entire vent
pipe between the
dryer and exterior
vent termination

13. Check
non-heated
crawlspace area
for water
pipes, insulate
them or install
heat tape if
necessary

14. Don’t close
crawlspace
exterior vents for
the cold season
if it contains any
non-direct vent
type fossil fuel
burning
appliances

15. Check your
fireplace damper
for proper
operation and
make sure there
are no bird nests
on top of it. Get
your chimney
inspected!

16. If your fireplace
does not include
exterior
combustion air
supplying
channel you
should consider
such installation

17. Check MFG. date
on smoke and
Carbon
Monoxide
detectors!
Smoke – 10 years max.
CO – may vary (usually
4-6 years max)

18. Replace smoke
and CO detector
backup batteries
at least once per
year.
More often if
necessary!

19. Test smoke and
Carbon Monoxide
detectors every
week.
Install
interconnected
devices if
possible

20. To print your home fall maintenance tips list visit:
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