Archive for Toronto Home Maintenance

Toronto Real Estate: Fall Maintenance For Your Home

Properly winterizing your home will make it much more comfortable during the coming months, as well as prevent the likelihood of you having to fix something in the cold or the dark. Follow this checklist for quick fall maintenance on your home: Outside your house Inspect the roof, gutters and siding. This is easy to [...]

Energy-Efficient Renovation Program Back In Place For Toronto Homeowners

The Canadian government has renewed the Eco-Energy Retrofit program, which provides homeowners with rebates of up to $5,000 when they renovate their home to be more energy-efficient. Homeowners must first undergo a pre-retrofit evaluation (formerly called a home energy audit), complete the recommended renovations and then undergo a post-retrofit evaluation. The post-retrofit evaluation must be [...]

Toronto Homeowners Are Entitled To Compensation By Direct Energy If Their Hot Water Heater Leaks

Renting a hot water heater in Toronto Why rent a hot water heater? Well, think of it in terms of renting an apartment. When something goes wrong, you just call the company (or landlord) and have it fixed at no cost to you. In most cases, Toronto real estate owners can call the hot water [...]

Does Your Toronto Home Need A Boost Before Selling?

The easiest, quickest and cheapest way to help improve your Toronto home’s look before you put it up for sale. Toronto Real estate.

Remodeling Your Toronto Home Before Selling: Cost Vs. Value

The 2010-2011 Remodeling Cost vs. Value Report was recently released. This report is put out every year by Remodeling Magazine and examines how worthwhile common renovations are when looking at how much money is spent and how much of that money is recouped when a home is sold. While the magazine is based in the [...]

Vermiculite Insulation Removal In Toronto

Vermiculite is a mineral that is used in a variety of products, from potting soil to insulation. For 70 years, most of the vermiculite mined for insulation came from one Montana-based mine, which was later discovered to be tainted with asbestos. This vermiculite insulation is also tainted with asbestos, and over 35 million North American [...]

Buying A Recently Renovated Home In Toronto

“Fully-renovated” and “recently upgraded” are two phrases commonly seen in listings for homes and older condominiums. If this is the case, potential buyers should make sure that permits were obtained for whatever upgrades were made to the home or structure before they buy. According to the City of Toronto, building permits are required for installing [...]

Energy-Efficiency And Toronto Real Estate

Keeping your Toronto Real Estate toasty in the winter Where did these temperatures come from? It’s cold and genuinely uncomfortable outside, and many Toronto homeowners are going to begin seeking refuge inside, where the thermostat lives. If your home isn’t optimized for the cold weather, you could be wasting money on energy bills that are [...]

Protect Your Toronto Real Estate After Winter Damage

The Weather Network is calling for mixed rain and snow in the Greater Toronto Area by next weekend, after it stops being unseasonably warm. However, we all know that forecast can change at any time. Our winters can sometimes bring snow-, water-, or wind-related damage to homes. In some cases, damage can be severe and [...]

Maintaining Toronto Gardens In The Fall

Curb appeal is essentially the first impression of your home, what prospective buyers see as they drive by. You can help this first impression work in your favour. If you’re thinking of selling your piece of Toronto real estate in the spring time, you can make life easier on yourself now by putting your garden [...]