A woman is attacked every three minutes. How can we as women stop this or prevent this from happening? Crime is on the rise and we do not believe this will stop anytime in the near future. However, prevention is key. We do not mean that you should stay in the house, lock the doors [...]
Violence and Crime Against Women Must Stop!
In 1994, Legislation was passed which paved the way for the Violence Against Women Act. This Legislation provided $1.6 billion to enhance investigation and prosecution of the violent crimes perpetrated against women. However, crimes against women continue to increase each year. Preliminary results for the first half of 2006 [...]
If you’re considering installing a lightning protection system, here’s a statistic to consider. According to data compiled by Westinghouse Electric Company, given an average location and exposure, a 50 ft. high building stands a greater chance of being struck by lightning once a year than a card player has of filing an ordinary flush in [...]
As Jimmy Buffet once wrote, “If you live in the area, you have to know how to reason with hurricane season.” Here are some tips:
* Make sure that everyone is forewarned and is ready to move to shelter when necessary.
* Have working flashlights with spare batteries on hand. Make sure everyone knows how to safely [...]
Feeling safe and secure is an important element in enjoying your home. If you’re purchasing a new home or considering a remodel or addition to your existing residence, you’ll need to assess your security needs for doors and windows.
If you’ve had the same locks and keys for your house for several years, you may want [...]
1. Cripple wall failure
This occurs in older wood-frame houses on taller crawl space walls. Taller crawl-space walls are also known as cripple walls; they are built with vertical 2X studs. They can be found between the foundation and the floor joists. Even in some of the recent minor quakes, such homes have been destroyed when [...]
As parents, we all want our children to be safe. No matter how safe we think our children are at home, the fact is that every day, thousands of children are injured needlessly due to avoidable household accidents. Every year, nearly 4.5 million children are injured seriously in their homes.
Though we tend not to think [...]
These simple steps can help to insure your child’s safety:
1. Tall lamps or anything taller than your child that can be pulled over should be taken out of the child’s environment or be blocked off with furniture so that your child cannot get into it.
2. Poisons should not be kept under the sink, regardless of [...]
Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral fiber processed into thousands of building materials before 1980, including “cottage cheese” type and acoustic tile ceilings, furnace and duct insulation, drywall taping and joint compound, textured paints and plasters, and linoleum and vinyl flooring. It was banned from use in most building materials in the 1970s after the [...]
For more than 100 years, alarm companies made their livelihood by installing systems to protect lives and property, both residentially and commercially. The most common scenario was for a system to be installed after a potential customer had received several estimates from two, three or more companies. The system was usually purchased, although leases were [...]
