Category: Home Safety
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Home Safety Tips to Keep the Season Merry This Holiday Season
The holiday season is upon us, bringing warmth, joy, and festivities into our homes. As you prepare to celebrate with loved ones and create beautiful memories, it’s essential to ensure that your home is not only cozy but also safe. In this article, we’ll explore some crucial home safety tips that will help you maintain…
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Top Safety Tips for Your Furnace: How to Keep Your Home Toasty All Winter Long
Winter is a magical season when we enjoy cozy evenings by the fireplace, warm blankets, and hot cocoa. However, to make your home truly toasty during the coldest months, you need a reliable furnace. To ensure your furnace operates safely and efficiently, we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide of top safety tips. Read on to discover…
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Replace Your Old and Recalled Poly-B Pipes
Poly-b piping in all homes should be replaced. Learn why and how the experts at Always Plumbing & Heating can help.
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Protect your Indoor Air Quality with a Brand New Air Purification System
There are many things that we can do when it comes to ensuring that our homes are safe for our families. Keeping the house clean, making sure the plumbing and electrical systems are functioning properly, and giving the property general maintenance are all very important tasks, but we must not overlook the air we breathe…
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COVID-19 and the Air Quality in Your Home
The second wave of COVID-19 has arrived. With daily case counts on the rise, the provincial government has begun tightening restrictions on social gatherings to help control the spread. While it was relatively easy to maintain social distances from one another this summer when we could spend the majority of our time outdoors, with the…
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Holiday Home Safety (in 6 Easy Steps)
It’s that time of year again. Your home is about to be the bustling center of holiday happenings from cooking to celebrations. It may seem like enough to let your home run as usual and hope everything goes smoothly, but there are several ways to ensure your plumbing and appliances successfully survive the extra stress…
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Winter Storm Safety Tips for Your Edmonton Home
With temperatures averaging well below freezing in Edmonton during the winter, you can never be too prepared for the cold. Here it’s not a question of “if,” but “when” storms will arrive. It can be an unforgiving season if you suddenly find yourself without heat, electricity, or caught out in the cold. Winter is also…
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Halloween Safety Tips (for Edmonton Homes)
Another Edmonton October means that soon houses will be decorated with all sorts of spooky, festive decorations. In addition to traditional pumpkins and paper cutouts; elaborate blow up figures, animatronic gizmos, video projections and light shows have become modern staples. With all this new technology, it’s more important than ever to take safety precautions for…
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Fall Child Safety for Edmonton Homes
Edmonton homes preparing for the transitional weather season have a long list of maintenance concerns. Always Plumbing & Heating has already covered fall heater, sump pump and DIY home maintenance solutions. Ensuring that your HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems are ready for the harsh winter is part of being a conscientious homeowner. Sleet, snow and…
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Summer Water Safety for Edmonton Homes
It’s almost summer, which means Edmonton public schools will be closed for vacation soon. Kids will be home for a couple of months with some free time on their hands. Whether you’ve already made plans to keep your kids occupied or are still searching for some engaging activities, the odds are they will be spending…
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Proper Smoke and CO Detector Placement
Having smoke detectors installed in your Edmonton home is not a luxury. They are essential devices that every household needs to ensure safety from smoke and fire. But simply having smoke detectors in your home isn’t enough, they must be installed properly and maintained regularly in order for them to work efficiently. The same holds…