April in Buncombe County

On top or high on the side of your tank is a brass valve with a flip lever — the temperature-pressure relief (TPR) valve.

Your basement's most honest vulnerability isn't the walls — it's the handful of spots where a hole was cut below grade on purpose.

Look at the bottom outside edge of any vinyl or aluminum window and you'll find two or three little slots.

Your foundation has one enemy with a thousand disguises, and it's water sitting where it shouldn't.

First, the honest gate: no hot tub, no task — skip this card and enjoy your quarter.

In a wet climate, moss isn't a cosmetic issue — it's a slow roof killer.

Pest control that works is mostly carpentry: animals and insects get in through openings, and the openings are findable.

You don't need to get on a ladder to catch most roof problems early — you need to actually look, once a year, with intent.

Here's the cruel trick of a winter-burst outdoor faucet: the split happens in January, inside the wall, upstream of the shutoff — and then nothing leaks.

Scheduled ahead of Buncombe County's average first frost (10/23).

Water expands when it heats.

Every bit of air your system heats or cools passes through one filter.

Older dishwashers had hard food grinders.