Winter is here, and during the cold winter months, your residential siding should protect and insulate your home. Don’t wait till the damage is already done! Now is the time to make sure your home is ready for winter weather. To prepare for the seasonal change, Sam Boak is sharing a few ways to help you out.
- Prune and Remove Hanging Branches
While trees can help shade your home in the summer, they can also potentially damage your siding in the winter. Branches can crack your siding or loosen it from your home. Branches touching your siding can also cause mold and mildew buildup. Did you know it’s actually best to prune shrubs and trees during the winter? This allows the pros to see exactly where they’re making cuts!
You’ll want to call a professional to come trim any dead or dying branches from your trees. If you need a recommendation, give us a call! If you already have fallen tree branches from previous storms, make sure you clear your roof and yard of any branches, leaves or twigs.
- Ensure No Animals Are Present
If you have any damage to your siding, you may be unknowingly housing wild animals. You may have animals in your home hear scratching or rustling in your walls. Regularly check your siding for animals to prevent them from reproducing and multiplying in your living space and destroying areas of your home.
Be sure to you maintain the trees in your yard to prevent wild animals from climbing onto your home. You should also avoid leaving accessible trash outside to deter unwanted pests from exploring your yard, especially if your trash cans are near the side of your home. Animals digging through your trash cans could cause them to fall over and damage your residential siding.
- Hire a Professional
A professional contracting company like Boak & Sons understands all the details that go into residential siding such as warranties and insurance. Our professional siding installers have experience dealing with homes of many different shapes, styles, and sizes and the damage that happens to them. They will also know how to inspect your home to determine the structural integrity of the siding and give you the best work at the best value on top of the best quality repair or replacement.
While you’re taking a look at your home this winter, don’t forget to have your residential insulation looked at to save you on heating costs! To schedule your free estimate, give us a call at 330-793-5646 or contact us on our website at www.boakandsons.com/contact. Let us help you get your home ready for winter!
- Give back to the community.
This one is the same every year. Sam Boak puts giving back to the community at the top of his list of priorities, and carries that through to his employees by getting us involved here at Boak & Sons. We’ve worked with many organizations in the Cleveland, Youngstown, and surrounding areas such as The Salvation Army, Warming Warren, and many more to do our part in giving back. Sam always says that as a business, when you take from the community you have a responsibility to give back. He is encouraging other businesses and even individuals to make plans in 2022 and think of ways that you can give back to your local community.
- Visit your loved ones.
The past two years have shown everyone how precious the time we have with friends and family is. Many of us have experienced loss in the past year or two that will stay with us forever. For that reason, one of Sam Boak’s resolutions is to make time with family an even higher priority for both himself and his employees, and he’s encouraging customers and friends to do the same.
- Be kind.
Kindness is becoming an increasingly popular word in our society today, unfortunately due to a lack of its presence. There are so many opportunities for us to show kindness every day in the simplest ways, such as holding a door for someone, complimenting a coworker, or just simply smiling at someone in passing. If Sam Boak has learned anything in the past year, it’s that life is too short to harbor hate. If there is anything you can do every single day of 2022, be kind.
We would love to hear what your New Year’s resolutions are this year! Visit our Facebook page and let us know what your upcoming goals are. We wish everyone a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to you and your loved ones.
