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Fall Home Checklist

By Tara Aronson

Categories: Organizing, Bathrooms, Furnishings & Dusting, Kitchens, Laundry, Garages, Outdoor Rooms & Exteriors, Health & Safety

Get your home prepped for cooler times:

  1. Just ducty: Clean heat ducts and registers. Replace air filters.

     

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  2. An outside job: Hire someone to clean the gutters and downspouts.

  3. Moving inside: Clean patio furniture and store it for the winter.

  4. Firestarter: Order firewood. Stack it off the ground on pallets or concrete blocks to increase air flow so that it dries appropriately. Stack it away from the house to prevent pest infestation.

  5. And just in case things get out of hand: Check your fire extinguisher.

  6. Chim chim cheree! Line up a chimney sweep now before they're all booked up until April.

  7. Bed time (again!): Clean all bed linens, including comforters, duvets, bed skirts, pillows, etc. Yep, canopies, too!

  8. On the count of three: Turn that mattress!

  9. Down the drain: Clean drains and traps.

  10. Green things: Equip kids with an electrostatic cloth and give them the task of cleaning your houseplants. The leaves wipe clean like magic. It's actually a gratifying job — and a great start to a fresher-looking home!
Fall Home Checklist:  Created on September 5th, 2005.  Last Modified on September 5th, 2005

 

About Tara Aronson

Tara Aronson

Tara Aronson is author of Housekeeping With Kids. Her San Francisco Chronicle column entitled "Coming Clean" — focusing on household cleaning and maintenance — reaches 1.5 million readers. Aronson is an expert in home cleaning and organizing. Her advice has appeared in numerous national and regional publications, including Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post and Woman's World. Visit Tara's Web site.

Aronson is fast becoming a familiar face on national television (Living It Up with Ali & Jack, Soap Talk, The Other Half, CNNfn, etc.) and is also a much sought-after lifestyle expert for local television news and radio programs nationwide.
 

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