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Skip These Minor Maintenance Chores Now and You’ll Spend More Later

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These often-overlooked home maintenance chores will cost you in the long run if you neglect them.

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Keep on top of your home maintenance tasks and you'll avoid scream-worthy bills in the future. Image: HouseLogic/Wikipedia

This time of year brings out the home maintenance scolds urging us to perform those annual chores that keep our houses safe and sound. It’s always the same — change your furnace filters, drain outdoor faucets, clean gutters. But we’ve found a fresh voice who adds a few surprises to his home maintenance list.

Lou Manfredini, host of House Smarts TV, has added some easy-to-forget chores to his home maintenance list that will cost you if you ignore them:

  • Drain water heaters to remove sediment (This video shows you how.)
  • Re-seal foggy windows
  • Replace curled roof shingles
  • Re-grout cracked kitchen and bath tiles.

Have you neglected a maintenance chore that bit you later?

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lisa-kaplan-gordon Lisa Kaplan Gordon

Lisa Kaplan Gordon is a HouseLogic contributor and builder of luxury homes in McLean, Va. She’s been a Homes editor for Gannett News Service and has reviewed home improvement products for AOL.

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