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Alabama is known for college football championships, fields of cotton, mouth-watering BBQ, and for being the place where people still say "yes ma'am" and "no sir." What the state isn't known for are generous homeowner energy [...]

You can probably think of a few places in rooms, drapes, and closets, or behind a radiator, where spiders make their webs. Under the wood porch is a thicket of webs. A dirt floor crawlspace can be haunted with webs. Yuck! We are about [...]

Missouri is a state with a housing stock that is ripe for home performance projects. (Per the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the average Missouri home is between 30 and 40 years old. There are many homes, like mine, that are [...]

The "Things You Should Know" blog series covers home health, safety, and comfort information that homeowners and renters should know, but might not. Email your topic suggestions to qkorzeniecki@bpi.org.That "new smell" [...]