this is a great thread
1) dog hair - had never owned a dog before and now own a dog and a house (GSD). it sheds twice a year...for 6 months each time. cleaning up dog hair is basically just part of the routine now
2) pool - the house has a pool. when we were first moving in (march/april), i went to go turn off the pool pump to save some electricity. the pool turned green two weeks later. oops. tried to remedy myself, never made it. hired a pool company at that point, haha.
3) house has a swamp cooler - have learned a lot about that in the past months. first, how to drain the water line during the winter so as to prevent freezing, what all the components inside the cooler are and what they do, that you have to clean the water tray and replace the "media" every once in a while, etc.
things i haven't done yet but are mentioned frequently in this thread: blow out the dryer vent. ours is a very short run (<6ft) but whoever originally "set up" the laundry room made the vent a flexible one vs. solid and gave it a very snaky route. so i check the outlet every once in a while to make sure that air is moving through it easily. need to blow out the whole thing or replace with a solid vent at some point.
1) dog hair - had never owned a dog before and now own a dog and a house (GSD). it sheds twice a year...for 6 months each time. cleaning up dog hair is basically just part of the routine now
2) pool - the house has a pool. when we were first moving in (march/april), i went to go turn off the pool pump to save some electricity. the pool turned green two weeks later. oops. tried to remedy myself, never made it. hired a pool company at that point, haha.
3) house has a swamp cooler - have learned a lot about that in the past months. first, how to drain the water line during the winter so as to prevent freezing, what all the components inside the cooler are and what they do, that you have to clean the water tray and replace the "media" every once in a while, etc.
things i haven't done yet but are mentioned frequently in this thread: blow out the dryer vent. ours is a very short run (<6ft) but whoever originally "set up" the laundry room made the vent a flexible one vs. solid and gave it a very snaky route. so i check the outlet every once in a while to make sure that air is moving through it easily. need to blow out the whole thing or replace with a solid vent at some point.