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- Clearing your home of asthma triggers.
- What kind of antimicrobial properties do they have?
- Living "green" is about more than just energy efficiency and recycling; it's also about giving your family a healthier home.
- Naturally, the best way to prevent odor is to eliminate its source (e.g., take out the garbage, smoke or keep pets outside, etc.), but what about existing odors already permeating your home?
- The IICRC provides a consumer referral service to locate trained and certified cleaning and restoration firms and technicians.
- In today’s fiscal climate, there is no shortage of often ill-qualified people offering to clean and restore your valuable possessions, but how do you determine who truly knows what they are doing – i.e., how do you tell the “Masters” from the “Jacks-of-all-Trades”? In a word: Certification.
- Homeowners use water for many purposes, including drinking, cooking, washing, heating, humidifying, flushing (the No. 1 use of water in a home) and their pets. Those are just a few reasons homeowners should make sure they understand what’s in their water.
- How differing personality types affect your home and your family: an interview with Hannah Keeley.
- What to do to prevent color loss.
- Fixes for surprising sources of possible respiratory distress.
- An Environmental Protection Agency list of indoor pollutants and solutions that could affect your health.
- From getting out blankets, replacing smoke detector batteries, and flipping mattresses, many people start "flipping" their home routines when the seasons change.
- You can't see it. You can't smell it. But you can take steps against radon in your home, starting with an inexpensive test.
- Consumer Reports helps homeowners choose deck treatments that can "weather" summer and winter.
- Homeowners can take a number of steps to improve air quality and create a healthier living environment.
- Lead, rarely a concern at water's source, may indeed be present by the time that water pours out of your tap. Here's what to do.
- Quick tips: How NOT to use a "laptop" computer.
- Take a few smart measures before settling in for a warm winter in front of the fire.
- Save money and prevent water damage with the same techniques used to preserve the water supply.
- When Consumer Reports talks, people listen.

