I used to live in this huge house when I was a child. There were many other family members living in the same house with us including my grandmother, grandfather, my aunt and uncle and their children who were my cousins. It was still before my parents were able to afford their first house. The house was very crowded and my family and I had rater limited space for us, but I have many fond memories from that particular place where I used to live and reside in the past. One of those fond memories is a memory from the time when I used to play with the stairlift we had in our home and have fun with it.

I still remember the day when I discovered how much I liked to play with the stairlift. I would sit down on it at the bottom of the stairs and push the button allowing the lift to take me upstairs. My siblings as well as my cousins decided to join in and partake in the experience the moment they noticed how much fun I had the way. This was when problems started occurring. When you have so many children wanting to do something fun and you only have one stairlift, problems start to happen. It was obvious that everybody wanted to be on the stairlift and since we were just kids, we were unable to find the solution allowing us to avoid quarreling who should go first. Fortunately for us, my father stepped in and he decided who was allowed on the stairlift and at what times. Unfortunately for us, he was also the one who decided to ruin the fun and limit the amount of time we were allowed to spend participating in the activity. Now, I of course understand why he had to do it, but I still remember how disappointed I was when my time on the stairlift was limited to a few minutes per day only. Sometimes I would sneak to be on the stairlift, but my father would catch me immediately since the stairlift was rather noisy.

You might have woken up one night and realized that something disturbed your sleep. At least few things can disturb your sleep. These few things can be loud noises, too cold or too warm air in your bedroom, annoying bed bugs, or many other things. If you suspect that bed bugs live in your bed, do not panic. First, you will have to make sure that bed bugs make your life miserable and not something else. Many other insects such as mosquitoes or some types of flies can bite your skin and suck your blood. If you want to be sure that bed bugs suck your blood at night follow these steps:

1. If you do not find any signs of bed bugs in your bed during the day this does not prove that bed bugs do not live in your bedroom. You are not likely to find them in your bed in the daylight. They can live anywhere in your bedroom. They can hide in walls, under your carpet, in your drawers, or even outside of your house. They become more active at night. They know where you sleep, because they can easily sense the carbon dioxide you exhale.

2. Ask yourself how many times you were bitten in the past few weeks. If you were bitten a few times only, you are not likely to have bed bugs living in your house. If you have bed bugs, they will keep coming to your bed night after night. What is even worse, there will be more of them coming each night unless of course you decide to do something about it.

3. If you have reasons to suspect that bed bugs indeed live in your house, do not hesitate to call a professional exterminator. An exterminator can confirm if you have bed bugs. As an expert, he will be able to tell straight away whether you deal with bed bug infestation or not.

4. Look at your bites. If bites are located on the upper parts of your body, you are probably dealing with bed bugs. Bed bugs are unlikely to attack your legs. Other insects such as fleas will bite your legs or feet, but bed bugs are not likely to do this.

5. Try to describe how your skin looks like. Bed bugs bites usually appear as red welts or spots on your skin. They usually cause itching, but some people do not experience these sensations at all even if they have bed bugs living in their bedrooms.

6. You are more likely to have bed bugs in your house if you or one of your family members spent a night or a few nights in a hotel or a house of somebody who has them. If you always sleep at home and if you started seeing bites after the night, the chances are low that your house is infested with bed bugs.

I feel at liberty to write a few sentences about the winter that is about to begin soon. I even feel like the winter has already begun as some mornings here can be really cold. There is no ice or snow here yet, but I expect to see more of it in the next few weeks when the real winter is about to begin.

One of the biggest challenges are frozen pipes. Frozen pipes can be a real pain especially during those winter days when temperatures are record low. It turns out though that some things can be done in order to prevent such things from happening. Let me write a few words about it now.

Preventing frozen pipes is important if you want to take care of your home, especially before winter. There are a few ways to deal with it and one way is to insulate pipes in your home’s crawl spaces and attic. This is one solution that many home owners decide to try and they succeed in it. You might not be able to do everything on your own as you will for sure need some help from a specialists to help you prevent your pipes from being frozen in winter. The reason you need this is that sometimes you might not be able to get where only a qualified plumber can get. I can understand why this can happen.

Even though winter has not started officially yet for many of you, I am sure that it is going to start soon. For some people, winters can be harsher than they are for other people. I wonder how harsh the coming winter is going to be. If you live in Canada or in one of those colder states, you might need to do something in order to make sure that you are ready for the winter. Have you checked your pipes already? Maybe they need more maintenance than you have thought they would need? Whatever you decide to do, remember that you still have some time to do everything you need in order to prevent your pipes from freezing during winter months.

I cannot believe that another winter is almost in full swing again. Soon we are going to celebrate Christmas, then there is going to be New Year, St. Valentine’s Day and many other joyous day to celebrate like birthdays of a few of my friends.

Winter might be a special time of year, but it does not mean that one should not be prepared for it. By being prepared for it I not only mean having warm gloves and hats prepared at all times. Being prepared for winter means more than just that and can include making sure that no pipes freeze in your home during all those days when it is freezing outside.

I remember one very cold winter when I was a child. I lived in a big house with many rooms. Our central heating system wasn’t top quality, and we were always wondering when it might stop working. My parents did not feel like replacing it since it sounded like a big investment at the time. We were about to move anyway soon so we knew that the inevitable would happen one day for sure. And it did happen. We needed to call our plumber the next day to fix everything for us. Luckily, the repairs did not cost that much after all and everything ended surprisingly well taking into account the shape of our central heating system.

Since I am an adult now and have total control over my home, during winter I like to ensure that the pipes in my house won�t freeze the way it happened to me when I was a child. If a person has central heating, then one reason why pipes may freeze is when the central heating is switched off completely. I never switch my central heating off. In the worst case, I switch it on in and set it to heat just a little. Heating just a little can already make a huge difference. It is important to make sure that there is hot water circulating in the pipes and nobody should forget about this important fact.