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While You’re Away: Tips To Keep Your Home Safe While You Travel While You’re Away: Tips To Keep Your Home Safe While You Travel
While You’re Away: Tips To Keep Your Home Safe While You Travel It’s summer, which means time for sun, fun and vacations! With all the prepping, planning and packing, it's easy to miss one very important thing: ensuring your home is protected from water damage. Water is high on our list of things that go bump in the night. People underestimate the power water has to wreak havoc on your home. Water damage makes up 45 percent of all interior property damage. That is more than damage caused by fire or burglary. That is the bad news. The good news is that 93 percent of all water damage is preventable. In fact, your plumbing supply system is the No. 1 ca…

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Advocate Brokerage Experts Explain The Dangers Of Ice Dams Advocate Brokerage Experts Explain The Dangers Of Ice Dams
Advocate Brokerage Experts Explain The Dangers Of Ice Dams SCARSDALE, N.Y. -- To say it's been cold is an understatement. With temperatures recently falling below 32 degrees, many of us have chosen to stay inside with a hot cup of coffee. Looking ahead in the forecast though, to temperatures creeping above the freezing mark and then dipping back down again, there is an important topic to address: ice dams. An ice dam is a solid formation of ice at the edge of a roof. Sometimes ice dams are present with icicles, but other times they're not. These ice formations create barriers that prevent melting snow from running off the roof, into the gutter sys…

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