Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Mohr and in this video I want
to talk about homeowner maintenance tips that can possibly save you thousands of
dollars and grief and headaches alright so over the years i've just noticed a
lot of people don't really know what maintenance to do to their homes this
goes for homeowners and tenants so I'm gonna give you a few that you need to do
some certainly more important than others and some you're gonna have to do
more frequent than others the first one is your is cleaning out your drainage
line to your air handler some people call it a secondary drain of July and
you might have one drainage line or two it just depends what you have your air
hand or it could be located in your house and your garage up in your attic
but what this is is if your drainage line gets clocked it's gonna trip your
unit it's gonna shut it off of course this always happens when it's 90 or 100
degrees outside so you don't want this to happen so I'm gonna put a picture
above to give you an idea and what you want to do the builders should have put
a cap on there or whoever installed the HVAC unit sure to put a cap on there
where you just pull it off and then you could go in and you could dump
white vinegar down now I would suggest taking about a cup of white vinegar at
least every quarter once every three months you could do it sooner and
cleaning it out to make sure it's clean and it doesn't get clogged if you don't
have something that looks like this above well I would probably get someone
out there to put this in because it's never a matter and if your drainage
lines going to get clogged but when if you're not cleaning it now you could be
cleaning it out and doing this once a quarter it still could get clogged so
what happens is of course it's 90 degrees outside your unit shuts off you
can't figure out why well you always want to open that up and see if there's
water you could see water down in there it's clogged and if it is clogged you
need to get it unclog so before calling an HVAC company which is going to be
very expensive and very busy but you want to do is you want to go inside you
want to turn unit off get a shot back borrow a shot
back something that has a lot of suction and you'll want to put the hose up
against the drainage line that's outside where it's draining we want to wrap a
towel around it make sure that it's really tight turn that shot back on and
suck everything out of there this works in the vast majority of most
cases you might even be able to do it with just a regular vacuum but if you
have a shot that guy definitely go that way
suck everything out of there dump a couple cups of white vinegar down and
then you should be good to go if you turn your unit on so another thing that
I would suggest you do every two to three years is jump up on your roof walk
around your roof and make sure everything's sealed properly because
sealant isn't going to hold forever it's not gonna last for 15 or 20 years and
you want to do this if you have a chimney around the chimney or any
openings maybe where the vents are and make sure because you don't want it to
leak you want to make sure everything is sealed properly you also about every
year I would say maybe even sooner and you probably this is easier to do
especially if you're in the one-story house just walk around the whole
exterior of your home check everything out around the windows and make sure
that it's sealed properly if you're in a two-story home you might have to pop off
the screen and look and make sure everything's sealed properly because
years ago I had a situation write out a hole it was literally half the size of a
BB and we had a huge rainstorm in Tampa it lasted for four days and I had a lot
of water coming through very little water at a time at one time but with
what the hole there so I just simply went down to Home Depot
I bought some 30-minute sealant and I put it on there and I sealed the whole
thing and it stopped but it was a real pain I had to pull back my carpet and
replace the pad so you want to make sure that you do that also if you're in an
area like California or Florida where we have set up homes you want to make sure
that you don't have any big cracks now you
you have a little little little teeny hairline cracks probably not a problem
but if it's a decent-size hairline crack go to Home Depot go to Lowe's buy
something to seal that up you could paint over it or not but buy something
to seal that because if we get a really heavy rainstorm it's going to
continually pound in there now if you're in a cinderblock home and you're in in
Florida you're probably not going to have as much damage unless it sort of
unless a ton of water gets in there but if you're in a wood frame town it could
be a different story so make sure you do that every once awhile
always check walk around another thing you want to do is I would say once a
month at least maybe once every couple months just turn your sprinkler system
on look at all the heads make sure that you don't have a broken head because the
last thing you want to do is have a broken head in for 40 minutes waters
just shooting up because it's gonna cost a lot of money in water bills and it's
not gonna water very good anyhow so these are just maintenance things that
you want to do I hope this video helps you if you have any questions let me
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