While it is still comfortable outside, consider some pre-winter preparation that could save you big money down the road. Here’s Clairmont’s Top 10: Change furnace filter. You can buy a stack online. Change batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Have clear access to your water main. If you or your kids had to
Icicles may be telling you something very important about your home. Our recent temperatures have been well below freezing the past couple weeks. Take a walk around the outside of your home. If you see a fair number of icicles hanging from your gutters it is signaling that you do not have enough insulation in
Generally during warmer months we all have various companies work on our homes. From weekly mowing to window washing, roofing, siding, landscaping, etc. yet Insurance is a topic that candidly never gets discussed. We are more concerned with defining the work, finding a contractor, and getting them to start work. Insurance doesn’t take a backseat; it doesn’t take
Last week 18” of snow. This week six inches of rain. Ugh! As the old sayings goes; if you don’t like the weather in Chicago wait a few minutes and it will change. In roughly seven days, we have had 24” of precipitation. To add insult to injury, all the snow melted in roughly 48
Clairmont Ltd. Welcomes Artisan Builder & Co. – Dawn McKenna, Certified Kitchen, Bath & Residential Designer Brings Wealth of Expertise to Burr Ridge General Contractor Burr Ridge-based Clairmont, Ltd. recently acquired Artisan Builder and Co. of Joliet. Artisan’s owner and founder Dawn McKenna; a Certified Kitchen, Bath and Residential Designer has joined Clairmont. The announcement was
In addition to state-of-the-art convection cooking, GE’s latest wall ovens feature Wi-Fi connectivity that does everything except take the casserole dish out of the fridge for you! GE’s new mobile app Brillion lets users preheat the oven, set the timer, change temperatures and cooking functions, and check the cooking status without even being in the
Dear Customers and Friends – The next few days will bring frigid temperatures that the Chicago area has not seen in decades. Simply put, not much we own is engineered to handle these extremes. Here is some advice of how to increase your odds of avoiding trouble, especially frozen pipes. These are all simple and
I attended a trade show last week and had the opportunity to check out this great new solar power skylight from Velux. This new model needs no wiring. The installation work is on the roof, with no disruption of ceilings and walls. That saves time-consuming and costly patching, taping, painting and cleanup inside. Unlike