It's Not Too Early To Start Winterizing Your Home

With fall weather starting it makes sense to get ready for winter. Along with junk hauling you should properly winterize your home.

Getting your home and property ready for the rigors of winter weather is one of the chores that many homeowners find challenging. In many parts of the country, this means preparing for rain and an occasional freeze. But other locales must prepare for some harsh weather including heavy snow and long freezes. 

Before the weather really begins to kick in it's a great time to finally get rid of that household junk you've been meaning to haul away. In addition, if you have a large parcel with substantial amounts of trees and shrubbery, you might find that you're going to have large piles of limbs, trimmings, and leaves to get rid of as well.

Lawn debris removal is going to be a major chore.

Many people do take advantage of the moderate fall weather to clean their yards and collect those junk items to be hauled away. But, properly preparing your home should be an early autumn task in addition to the junk hauling tasks to be done before winter.

Preparing Your Lawn For Winter

Fortunately, lawns typically don't need much done to them during the cold months of winter. Even if you don’t have snow, but your home is in a location that experiences frost and freezing temperatures, your lawn should remain safely dormant until spring.

If you properly prepare your lawn during the last weeks of fall, it will be good until spring arrives. There are only a few things you should do until the lawn care season begins again in the spring:

Remove debris: Yard clean up means you should keep heavy objects, including branches and lawn furniture, off of the grass all year long. Objects left on the grass during cold weather can create large dead spots. 

Stop or reduce watering: Cool season grasses will experience winter frost or dampness so the grass will not require additional watering. Warm season grasses won’t require additional watering since they go dormant in the winter months.

Don't aerate: Winter is not the best time to do this. Cool season grasses are usually aerated in the fall, and warm season grasses are usually aerated in the summer. Most grass types should not be aerated in the winter months.

Fertilizing and feeding: Because warm season grasses are dormant in the winter months they won’t require fertilization in winter. Likewise, cool season lawns also do not need fertilization in the winter months.

When to mow: After a final (and short) mowing in the late fall, both warm season and cool season lawns will require little to no mowing or edging during the winter months. 

Weeding: If your lawn still has weeds and the ground isn’t too hard to pull them out, this can be a good time to remove any unwanted plants from the lawn.

Proper Winterizing Your Home Saves Money

After taking care of your lawns and landscaping, it's time to focus on your house. Not only can you help prevent ruptured pipes or damaged gutters by preparing the outside, but winterizing your home's interior can add up to a huge savings in both repair bills and energy bills.

But where should you start, and what can be done?

We've put together this handy infographic that provides checklist of a number of items for winterizing your home:

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Do It Yourself or Hire a Pro?

Many of the tasks to be done when winterizing your home can be done fairly easily yourself, or with the help of a friend or family member. However, some tasks, such as chimney cleaning or roof inspections, are usually jobs for the professionals.

While this will cost you more than attempting it yourself, the convenience and peace of mind knowing that these tasks have been done properly are worth it.

Junk hauling can fall into this category, as well.

You can certainly do it yourself, but this will probably require a truck and possibly some extra hands. In addition, there are still the costs for gas and disposal fees. On top of all that, there is the possibility that you may not be able to dispose of everything in your local landfill. Not to mention the work!

This is why hiring a professional firm can be a great option when it comes to junk hauling.

Who Should You Call for Junk Hauling?

Once you decide to outsource the junk hauling part of your winterizing project, you need to determine which firm is the right one for the job. And while you can certainly find plenty of guys with trucks willing to do the job, choosing that alternative may end up costing you more than you hoped to save. This is why Junk King really is the firm of choice.

Junk King provides an efficient, safe and eco-friendly waste disposal service so you don’t need to worry about the pick up or disposal of the debris after your project is complete. Whether you need our services several times during a project or just once after it is complete, our hauling professionals will ensure that the debris is out of your way so that you can get on with the job.

Our team specializes in commercial and residential junk removal. We can be at your home in mere minutes, so call us today! Our crew is fully insured and well-trained, so you can trust them to get rid of your unwanted items in a professional and courteous fashion.

One of the best things about hiring Junk King is that we recycle a much of the material we pick-up. This is proof of our commitment to being an eco-friendly removal service. If you have questions about what we do or what we believe, give us a call at (707) 744-4254.