Dad-Vice: Winter Edition | How to Winterize Your Home

Free, hands-on home winterization walk-through. Learn what to do before the freeze, why it matters, and how to avoid winter's most expensive Winter in Wisconsin is coming for your pipes, your gutters, and your heating bill. Let's get ahead of it together. Dad-Vice is back for a Winter Edition. Brandon Buell, Broker Associate at Buell Real Estate Group, brings his construction background to a room-by-room, hands-on walk-through of everything your home needs before the deep freeze. This is the advice a dad would give you, minus the "when I was your age" speech. What we'll cover: • Outdoor faucets and hoses: the five-minute task that prevents a burst pipe • Furnace filters and tune-ups: what to change, what to hire out • Gutters, downspouts, and how ice dams actually form • Weatherstripping and caulking the drafts that eat your heating bill • Sump pumps, floor drains, and basement moisture • Detectors, humidity, and keeping your home healthy all season You'll leave with a take-home winterization checklist and answers to every "wait, am I supposed to be doing that?" question you've got. Who it's for: Homeowners at any stage. New buyers get a head start, longtime owners get a refresher, and everyone gets to feel smug when the first cold snap hits.