Cold season is behind the corner and your home would benefit from some exterior fall maintenance.

Vernon Hills, IL -- (SBWire) -- 10/17/2011 --Check This House Inc’s founder, Dariusz Rudnicki, has published fall maintenance guidelines for the home’s exterior, in an effort to aid home owners prepare their properties for the cold season.

Dariusz has spent almost 13 years as a home inspector in the Chicagoland area and has evaluated over five thousand properties during that period of time. His thorough inspections and consultations with home owners and home buyers helped him develop a practical approach to home maintenance procedures.

His home exterior fall maintenance tips will guide even an inexperienced person in performing simple maintenance tasks around the property. Attached pictures aid the homeowners in better understanding the issues associated with those tasks. The reader also has the option to ask questions by using the comments form or by directly contacting Dariusz via e-mail; answers are often provided within minutes.

Homeowners’ biggest obstacle in performing fall maintenance around their property remains the lack of motivation and misunderstandings about how their home operates. There’s also a common belief that “those” things will never happen to regular people. This almost always results in expensive repairs that could easily be avoided by simply monitoring the property. Periodical home inspections performed by experienced professionals help to prevent many of those problems to ever materialize.

“Only a routine home maintenance will guarantee a “maintenance free” home.” Dariusz stated. “It’s a seasonal job that must continue through the entire year. Fall maintenance is the most important task since the leaking roofs, cracking and deteriorating chimneys, failing home exterior finishes, freezing exterior water valves, cracking sump pump discharge lines, and various other issues are very common at this time of year.”

Maintaining your home is not one of those things that can be postponed indefinitely. There are issues like inadequate attic ventilation which almost always leads to mold growth and further translates into huge remediation costs, sometimes even roof replacement if not corrected in time.

Dariusz Rudnicki has retired from the home inspection business in November 2010 but keeps serving home owners and home buyers through his website.