Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exterior of a house with many eaves - Douglas Keister/Getty Images Maintaining every part of your home can seem impossible.

Welcome to the final entry in my three-part series on ice dam prevention and heat cables. In part one, Should you install heat cables to prevent ice dams?, I discussed the most common solutions ...

When I walked into the home store, I asked for those long nails that hold eaves troughs up. “You mean gutters?” a man working for the store asked. I didn’t know there was a difference. In fact, I ...

Your roof gets most of the credit for protecting your home, but your gutters quietly determine how long that roof actually lasts. When water cannot move cleanly through the system, it backs up, creeps ...

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As Perth and south-west WA face a series of storm fronts that have brought heavy rain and flash flooding, some homeowners are rethinking the best way to keep the house dry. Perth architect Peter Hobbs ...