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Fall Maintenance Creates Contract and Day Work Job Opportunities

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For your fall home preparation activities, hire someone on a contract and day work basis to assist you or complete the job for you. Post your free job ad on http://www.laborfeed.com to find workers who provide handyman services.

If you’re a homeowner, the Fall season means getting your home ready for the winter. But Fall home preparation takes time and expertise, of which you might not have. Why not hire a someone on a contract and day work basis to assist you or complete the job for you? Post your free job ad on www.laborfeed.com to find workers who provide handyman services. Or, if you have the skills to offer handyman services, post your free worker ad! Learn more about turning your skills into money.

Whether you’re doing the work yourself, or hiring workers, use the following checklist to get your home ready for colder months:

Fall Maintenance Checklist

Gutters & Roofing

Basements

Heating Systems

  • Get your main heating system serviced. If you don’t, your heat does not work and it seems that everyone else had the same issue, so you get to wait and shiver until the heating person shows up.
  • If you have a fireplace or woodstove, you should already have your winter’s supply of wood already covered and being seasoned. If not get some stocked up quickly. You should also have the chimney(s) cleaned and checked before you fire it up
  • Clean and inspect your decks for damage or rot - now is a great time of year to re-stain them
  • Check all the hand rails and steps to make sure they are clean, safe, and secure also
  • Check the siding and doors – caulk & install new weather stripping as needed

Gardening Checklist

  • Keep removing weeds from your garden
  • Plant fall and winter vegetables and root crops like cabbage, collards, celery, garlic, onions, peas, and spinach.
  • Other items to plant include early maturing tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, onions, & radishes

Lawns

  • Continue Mowing and watering as required
  • Fertilizing now also encourages good root development.
  • Seed the bare spots of your lawn with winter grass seed or over-seed the whole lawn if so desired.
  • Planting / Flowering Beds
  • Add compost, manure, and mulch as required
  • Mark the locations of plants that die back, so you do not accidently uproot them later (i.e. spring cultivation, planting of bulbs, etc…)
  • Start prepping for your fall annuals, remove the weeds, litter & deadhead the flowers from plants that are starting to die back
  • Divide up / thin out clumps of perennials, bulbs, iris’s – plant new perennials & biennials
  • Towards the end of this month through early October – start planting your spring bulbs

Miscellaneous

  • Remove sick or dead trees and shrubs.
  • Take soil tests for necessary additives that may be needed for next year’s garden, lawns & planting beds (as each area requires different nutrients, consider three separate tests)
  • You might want to consider bringing your fresh herbs inside and placing them by a sunny window: • Rosemary • Oregano • Mints • Chives • Thyme • Marjoram • Scented geranium

Other Fall preparation items to consider

  • Seasonal items are going on sale like gardening supplies & lawn mowers
  • Check your vehicles and make sure that any small problems are taken care of. Check each tire’s tread and pressure, the battery, and all fluid levels.
  • Replace your windshield wipers, if they are 2 years old or older.Create a winter emergency kit and put it in the trunk (snow chains, flares, water, high energy snacks, blankets, a flashlight with spare batteries, jumper cables, and a first aid kit)

This checklist was originally posted by the Homeowners and Trades Resource blog in the article September and Early Fall Maintenance Checklist.



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