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Click, click, click. 3 ways to fix your stove when it’s clicking.
Ensure safety first: always prioritize safety when working with gas appliances. If you smell gas or suspect a gas leak, immediately turn off the gas ...
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Tips to Extend the Life of Your Stone Patio Tiles
You love your stone patio. We love your stone patio. Your guests and your kids and your dog love your stone patio. While it may be a little hot on ...
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Quick Guide to Year-Round Outdoor Furniture Cleaning and Maintenance
When you’re closing on a new home, one of the most exciting parts is daydreaming about your future outdoor oasis.
And once you choose your outdoor ...
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Troubleshoot Your Garage Door Issues
You might not often think about the awesomeness of your automatic garage door, but if you do, you’ll realize it’s a VIP entrance to your home ...
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Unexpected Benefits of Painting Your Home’s Exterior
We all know that it’s not just what’s on the inside that counts when it comes to your home. While we invest a considerable amount of ...
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Questions to ask your plumber when they make a house call
We’ve all been there. The toilet is overflowing or you hear a trick-trick-trickle in the wall or the shower drain is not, well, draining. Your ...
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Prevent a clothes dryer fire with this simple annual task
Clothes dryers cause nearly 3,000 fires a year across the country, according to the United States Fire Administration. And lint is the major ...
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DIY basement improvements to add value to your home
An unfinished basement can cause mixed feelings: creepy, dark and dank, and a dumping ground for all the out-of-sight-out-of-mind things that ...
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Your gutters need cleaning
Maintaining a well-functioning gutter system is essential when you are a homeowner. It’s obligatory!
Gutters are in charge of directing water ...
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Reviving your outdoor grill for the summer!
With the arrival of summer, it’s time to fire up your outdoor grill and live your best alfresco cooking life. But before the fun starts: it’s ...
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If you have mold, here’s what you need to do ASAP
Click here to read our guide on how to find signs of mold in your home.
In our recent guide about we covered just how big and bad mold can be: if you ...
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How to check for mold in your home, right now
Big bad mold is a common problem that can affect any home. From potential health issues to damage to your property, early detection is crucial.
But ...
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Summer, summer, summertime
2. Power wash. This one is a summer classic: whether you DIY or enlist the help of a service company, power washing the exterior of your home ...
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5 quick fixes to remove toxins from your home
Chemical sources in the home can come from a variety of places and in the form of a variety of unpronounceable ingredients. Here are some quick-start ...
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How to Properly Clean a Bathtub
Let’s normalize not knowing the most effective ways to clean things in the house, especially the things that get a LOT of use. Enter, the ...
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Air Purifiers: Do you need one?
We’re always looking for ways to improve the air quality of our home.
Outside of the au natural option (check out our post about best air ...
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The Toilet Demystified: Maintenance + Cleaning Tips
So, we’re with you, toilet upkeep isn’t one of the more pleasant household chores.
But, with just a bit of attention and regular proper care, ...
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How to deep clean a dishwasher
Dishwashers get funky. It’s a reality we don’t often confront but let’s paint the picture: tiny bits of un-rinsed food, grease, and ...
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5 ways to improve your fridge-freezer efficiency
A fridge can often be the biggest energy consumer in a household – especially since it’s running 24/7/365. So how can you reduce the energy ...
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5 appliance filters you never clean but you should
An unchanged filter can influence indoor air quality and cause our appliances to work overtime and less efficiently or even not at all. And sometimes ...
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TurboTenant and Armadillo: Simplifying Self-Management for Landlords
FORT COLLINS, CO and LOUISVILLE, KY, April 11, 2023. For Immediate release.
Armadillo, a modern tech-enabled home warranty platform, and TurboTenant, ...
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How to clean your oven the non-toxic way
Treat this blog as a friendly reminder to clean your oven. We’d bet it’s been a minute…for us all.
We are on team-non-toxic, and by ...
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Home Warranty Pioneer Armadillo Heads West
We’re blazin’ trails here at Armadillo and we’re very excited to announce we are heading west. A little bit city, a little bit country and ...
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Propane Heating vs. Oil Heating Showdown
Spring has sprung. Huzzah! And while many of us have put hot chocolate by a cozy fire behind us, it’s always a good time to consider the ...
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Pacific Northwest, meet Armadillo
You’re just gorg, Pacific Northwest. Talk about purple mountain majesties. And we love that your cities aren’t just the birthplace of green and ...
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How to improve water efficiency at home
The Small Stuff:
Don’t use your toilet as a wastebasket for tissues and thus, flush less. Did you know that for every flush, five to seven ...
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Armadillo x Beycome: Expanding the real-estate ecosystem
MIAMI and CLARKSVILLE, Ind., March. 20, 2023 / —
Armadillo x Beycome: Expanding the real-estate ...
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Clean water supply at home. It’s a must.
First, we recommend contacting a local water testing company to get more information about drinking water in your community and/or to have your water ...
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Keeping the air clean in your home is a breeze!
We don’t need the research to tell us that in fact, we spend most of our 24 hours indoors. And that air quality can have an effect on our health ...
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Keep your basement dry with these sump pump reminders!
Either way, regular maintenance is imperative to ensure that your sump pump continues to function properly in preventing water damage and to protect ...
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Hey Siri, define septic system
Here’s the thing with the ever elusive septic system, you know it’s there but you don’t ever really deal with it. Until you have to.
Hey Siri, ...
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Get Wise to Washing Machine Wisdom
“Why does the laundry stink?” is a thought that your household laundry-doer has at some point in time. The long and short of it is that sour, ...
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The Winterizing Series, Part 4: Exteriors
So by now, maybe the term “winterizing the home” is part of your everyday vernacular… maybe it’s inspired a water cooler chat you’ve ...
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The Winterizing Series, Part 3: Protect your pipes – The How-To’s
Ok, so here’s the thing. As long as your pipes are getting used during the winter (meaning you and your family are home and the water is running ...
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Atlanta and Armadillo are like two peaches in a pod
Atlanta, we love you. You’re the hip hop capital of the world, have the country’s best fried chicken, and let’s be real – the most iconic ...
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The Winterizing Series, Part 1: Can you feel the heat?
As grown ups, we’ve got lists and lists and lists of things we need to take care of. All the time. And we are very seldom listless. But of all the ...
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The Winterizing Series, Part 2: Feeling a bit drafty?
You know that last bit of summer – that warm, calm and quiet spell of temperate weather – that passes through although autumn has begun? ...
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Armadillo makes itself right at home in San Antonio and Austin!
We’re big fans, San Antonio. From your glorious River Walk to all the Tex-Mex eats, you’re one of our favorite places in the Lone Star State. And ...
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Armadillo expands to North Carolina
We like you, North Carolina: not only do you have the beaches of OBX and the breweries of Asheville, but you’re the home of Krispy Kreme AND Pepsi. ...
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Winterizing Your Home
As grown ups, we’ve got lists and lists and lists of things we need to take care of. All the time. And we are very seldom listless. But of all the ...
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Armadillo Launches Modern Home Warranty Solution in 20 Markets
NEW YORK and CLARKSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Armadillo, a technology-based home warranty company providing subscription ...
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Armadillo: Homeownership made easier
Once upon a time, there was a dad in charge of bath time. The kids were having a ball and after a lot of singing and splashing, it was time to dry ...
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Armadillo, In a Nutshell
Here’s the dillo, it’s a new age of home warranty for a new age of homeowners.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already surmised that ...
