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Season-proofing the house, start here.
Rainy season, winter, harmattan and heat: the checklists and the weather-specific guides, in the order the year hits your house.
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The checklists.
- Autumn preparation: the month that decides your winterGutters, heating, seals and alarms — the four checks that turn winter from an emergency season into a season.
- Ice dams: the checklist that keeps them off your roofThe melt-refreeze cycle that wrecks roofs in snow country - the three-part prevention (seal, insulate, ventilate) and what to never do with an axe.
- The pre-rains home checklist that Lagos roofs actually needGutters, sealant, ceiling pencil-marks, drainage fall and the weep holes nobody remembers: a Saturday of small inspections that turns a leaking ceiling into a paragraph in this checklist instead.
- The summer cooling checklist (before the heat arrives)Shade and airflow strategy, the filter habit, the outdoor unit, and the honest limits of every option — including when a fan beats an aircon.
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Cold, rain and water.
- Doors that stick in the rains: hinges before the planer, planer before the prayerWhich way wood actually moves, the two-screw hinge fix that closes half of all sticky doors, and the strike-plate check to do before you cut anything.
- Drying inside when the rains say no: the spacing, the air and the smell that means you were slowWhy time beats heat for laundry indoors, the cross-flow layout that works without a machine, the spin cycle's real percentage, and the musty verdict prevention.
- Frozen condensate pipe: the boiler's winter stoppage and the safe thawThe error code, the gurgling, the locked-out boiler on the coldest day. The 20-minute safe thaw, the prevention, and the line where the engineer takes over.
- Frozen pipes: the winter checklist that prevents the burstWater expands as it freezes, and pipes split quietly. The preparation list for the first hard freeze, the drip trick, and the first five minutes if one lets go.
- Pipe lagging: the winter job that costs pennies and prevents floodsExposed pipes in lofts and outbuildings freeze before the pipes in walls. Foam sleeves, the outdoor tap, and the seams everyone misses.
- The generator in the rain: the six rules that keep the blackout out of the accident reportWater and electricity do negotiate, and badly - the positioning maths, the cable law, the bonding paragraph the installers skip, and the CO rule that does not pause for the storm.
- The generator that starts in April and dies in October: the service calendar small engines actually needOil by hours not vibes, the harmattan's air-filter war, the fuel left to sour, and the monthly run that costs a litre and saves the morning.
- The wardrobe smells musty the week the rains end: the six-week fix, not the sprayMould lives where the wall is cold and the air is still. The reorganise, the desiccant maths, and the wash routine that saves the clothes you already mourned.
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Harmattan and heat.
- Harmattan cracks wood: saving the guitar, the parquet and the door that suddenly closesThe season pulls moisture out of every fibre in the house. The humidity maths, the cheap interventions that actually work, and the instruments that need the serious version.
- Harmattan is also a fire season: eleven checks before the dry nights peakDry air turns ordinary faults into flame faster than any other month does. The walk-through that takes twenty minutes and the habits that cost nothing.
- Harmattan is hard on screens, laptops and printers - the five-minute fixes that workDry air and suspended dust are a chemistry set your devices were not shipped with. Nothing here needs a technician: it needs a calendar and a microfibre cloth.
- Which way should your ceiling fan spin? The seasonal switchCounterclockwise in summer, clockwise on low in winter - the ENERGY STAR-backed setting that changes how your room feels, plus the rule everyone forgets.
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