9 Essential Tips to Prepare Your House for Sale.
Selling your home is a major step, and first impressions matter! Properly preparing your house before listing it on the market can help attract buyers, increase its value, and lead to a quicker sale. Here are some essential tips to get your home ready: 1. Declutter and Depersonalize your house for sale. Buyers need to...
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Caulking With Logivert
The LogisVert program for caulking windows, doors, and openings around your home is now available! Air drafts through the openings around your doors and windows account for 25% of your home’s heat loss. With rising prices all around Quebec, the LogisVert program allows homeowners to save money twice: Save money on caulking your home’s windows,...
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Window Caulking: How to Do It, Tips, and Practical Advice
Why Window Caulking Is One of the Most Important Renovations for Your Property Window caulking is an essential step for ensuring the watertightness and durability of your home, building, or structure. Indeed, a poorly caulked window can lead to water infiltration, heat loss, and, over time, structural damage. When neglecting caulking joints, moisture caused by...
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Why sealant Joints Are Essential to Preserving Your Property
Sealing joints play a crucial role in protecting your home from the elements. Whether it’s preventing water infiltration, minimizing drafts, or ensuring effective window insulation for winter, these components are indispensable for maintaining the integrity of your property. In this article, we’ll explain why caulking is essential for protecting your windows, doors, and any other...
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The Secret to Long-Lasting Caulking Joints: Getting the sealant Joint Size Right
Proper caulking joints are essential for preventing energy loss, water damage,water infiltration and other costly problems in your home. But did you know that the size of your sealant joint plays a crucial role in how effective and durable your sealant will be? In this article, we’ll break down the importance of a caulking joint...
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Window insulation: How and Why to Do It?
In Brief: Insulating your windows is essential to improve your home’s energy efficiency and reduce electricity bills. By preventing drafts and reducing heat loss, proper insulation helps maintain a constant and pleasant indoor temperature. You can detect drafts using simple methods like incense sticks around windows. Window insulation offers several benefits, including lowering heating...
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WINDOW CAULKING WITH BOOMLIFT MACHINES: QUALITY & SAFETY
Window caulking on the south shore of Montreal is a crucial task in construction and maintenance projects. It ensures that windows remain well-sealed, preventing leaks, drafts, and energy loss. However, when it comes to caulking windows at heights of 30 feet or more, using a traditional ladder becomes inefficient and unsafe. In Quebec, where safety...
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Caulking in Granby: Top-quality caulking services from Calfeutrage Apex.
Nestled in the beautiful landscape of Granby, homeowners and business owners alike understand the importance of maintaining well-sealed properties to withstand the region’s diverse weather conditions. When it comes to caulking services in Granby, Calfeutrage Apex stands out as a reliable and professional choice. With a reputation for excellence, we offer top-notch caulking services for...
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HOW TO CAULK WINDOWS PERFECTLY
Caulking is an essential part of home maintenance. It seals the gaps around windows, doors, and other spaces that can let in air and water. Not only does it help keep your home comfortable, but it also prevents water damage and mold. So caulking is the perfect solution to improve your home’s health, look, and...
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The Complete Guide to Window Insulation on a Budget.
It’s been a cold year so far in Quebec, reaching temperatures that feel like -50 in some areas. When it’s that frigid outside, it causes chilly temperatures inside the house as well, regardless of how high you set the heat. One of the most common ways cold air enters the house is through drafty windows. Proper window...
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Caulking Is The Best Window Insulator For Winter | Find Out Why
In April 2021, electricity rates in Quebec increased by 1.3%. In April 2022, these rates increased by 2.3% and experts predict an increase of up to 5% in April 2023. However, there is a way for homeowners to control their electricity costs, and that is to insulate their windows! With that in mind, what is...
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Caulking Solution: What Are the Different Types?
Improperly sealed windows, doors, and other gaps in your residential, commercial, or industrial Montreal’s South Shore property can lead to all sorts of issues. Water can infiltrate your building, causing harmful mould and mildew problems or damaged appliances and machinery. Air leaks can cause your energy bills to spike. Insects and other pests gain access,...
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Window Caulking vs Replacement: Which Should You Do?
Did you know that it could cost over $9000 to replace the windows in your home? Windows are the eyes of your house, but when there are a lot to replace, the cost starts to mount. Old windows can waste energy and allow for water infiltration, leaving a house feeling cold and damp. And with the snowy...
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HOW LONG DOES AN EXTERIOR SILICONE SEALANT LAST?
Many owners of multiplex or condo buildings know that building caulking is essential to preserve the integrity of the building materials. Caulking the windows and doors of multi-unit buildings prevents water infiltration, air drafts, and insects from entering. Regular maintenance of a building is also an important task for the owners of a house or...
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HOW TO MAXIMIZE THE INSULATION OF EXTERIOR WOOD DOORS
Your front door does not only gives your home a unique character but also serves many functions. It protects you from intruders, insulates you from noise and cold, and keeps insects outside rather than inside your property. While the most effective step in protecting yourself from the elements is to choose a front door with...
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Window Caulking: The Dos and Don’ts of Caulking Windows.
Did you know that 25% of heat loss during winter is a result of cold draughts seeping through your window frames? Professionally applied window caulking regulates cold air and moisture infiltration. Caulking is an essential part of home maintenance. It’s important to do your research before taking on this type of project by yourself. So,...
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Should you caulk around exterior lights,fascias and outlets?
Caulking is about much more than just doors and windows. When we talk about caulking, we immediately think of window caulking or door caulking; however, many other parts of your home’s exterior need to be properly caulked. Your protection against water, air, mould, insect and rodent infiltration requires a tightly sealed home. Caulking is the...
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Window caulking for winter: DIY or a caulking specialist?
Replacing your window caulking for the winter is essential! With winter ahead, we remember the cold air infiltration we felt last winter, the mice we had to chase away and the high electric bills we received. Replacing your window caulking is crucial if it has deteriorated if it was poorly done, or simply if the...
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How do you know if your home is well insulated?
You spend countless hours in your home, so it should be comfortable enough for you and your family. Insulating a home means good air exchange, but not that air is getting in everywhere. You deserve to be warm in winter and cool in summer. Another element that results from home insulation is the presence or...
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How to insulate window from cold air?
Have you ever felt the cold air drafts passing through your window frames? Cold air draft can enter through gaps and cracks around your doors and window frames. Door and Window insulation is essential to help to protect your home against water and cold air infiltration. If you intend to insulate your windows and doors...
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Caulking, Caulker, and sealant: Meaning and History
As soon as we take on the responsibilities of a owning home, we quickly learn the value of properly caulking our doors and windows. But have you ever stopped to think about how caulk was invented? What were its first uses? What materials were originally used for sealing? Well, your Montreal South Shore caulking experts...
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How to apply silicone caulk around a window with videos.
You don’t need experts to explain the importance of having well-sealed windows. You want to prevent air and water infiltration into your property and that’s exactly what caulking a window does. However, you may need some expert advice on choosing the right sealant. The team at Apex Caulking recommends using silicone sealant around your windows....
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