How to make sure your home is ready for the summer

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Have you ever thought about the importance of making your home summer ready? It’s a time to go around your home, both interior and exterior, to make sure you’re not wasting money.

KXAN’s Rich Segal spoke with Stephanie Dempsey, an education and outreach specialist with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s Take Care of Texas initiative, about several things homeowners can do to make sure their homes are energy efficient.

Several things you should do include checking air conditioning units, air ducts, and windows. Dempsey also explained why it’s important to change the direction of your ceiling fans.

Dempsey also addressed things outside the home that will help with making your homes summer ready like cleaning out your gutters and downspouts as well as making sure to address your water systems. You want to make sure when you’re watering outdoors that you’re watering your lawns and plants — and not your pavement.

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