Home Maintenance Advice

Most mid-century homes often have attractive old growth cedar hiding under paint. Homeowners can enjoy the look of their original wood ceilings in mid-century homes by removing the paint or stripping the paint off their ceilings. All Los Angeles Painting Company, Inc. is a skilled paint removing company.

Make your garden a special place with butterfly attracting Milkweed plants. Milkweed is a perennial with elongated green leaves and orange, yellow and red flowers. It is the required host plant for monarch butterfly caterpillars. It reproduces easily with wind carried seeds that sprout everywhere. Milkweed plays a critical role…

Hedges can contain large amounts of dead leaf build-up and trash. This debris accumulates inside the hedge structure from natural leaf drops and from regular landscape hedge trimming. Have your gardener or maintenance staff keep hedges healthy and your home beautiful by removing dead leaves.

Rats often find easy access to a house through poorly sealed garage door bottoms. Check garage door bottoms to make sure they are tight to the ground. Adjust the garage door to properly fit the opening, or add a rubber gasket to block the opening.

Corrosion is the deterioration of unprotected metals by interaction with the environment. It appears first as unsightly brownish rust on iron or steel. If not properly primed, painted and maintained, rust will destroy metal surfaces. Check metal surfaces regularly for early signs of rust.

This crawl space cover is open just enough at the bottom to let a rat in. And it did. A plumber working on the house a few months earlier bent the frame and didn’t properly replace the crawl space cover. That allowed just enough room for a rat to get…

Many homes have niches (a shallow recess or alcove in a wall) or accent walls. Consider dramatizing them with metallic paint. Metallics provide a shimmery flourish to any surface. This niche was painted by All Los Angeles Painting Company, Inc. using Modern Masters Metallic paint.

Krylon’s appliance touch-up tubes are a quick and effective way to repair scratches and chips on appliances. The 2 in 1 applicator has a fine tip for precision and a brush for larger chips. Keep your appliances looking like new. Available in several colors.

When trees overhang a roof, leaf and plant debris builds up on the roof surface. Regularly removing debris from the roof does the following: Prolongs the roof lifespan. Keeps the roof looking clean. Prevents bugs and other pests from living in the undisturbed plant debris.

Broken porch lights are an easily overlooked item that make a house look run down. You see them everyday, but don’t notice that they are falling apart. Repair or replace them to keep your house looking sharp.