Half of a home's siding covered with mold or algae - Picunique/Shutterstock Cleaning the exterior of your home is just as important as tidying the interior, but you don't need a power washer to tackle ...

This time of year, I am inundated with questions about how to clean algae from every conceivable outdoor surface. Let’s start with why algae thrives on our homes in the first place. Algae needs food ...

Q: We recently had our deck redone with Trex boards. They apparently are thinner than our original boards, so now we have a ...

Q. My house is now 25 years old. It’s covered with vinyl siding. Every summer, mold and mildew develops on the north side of my house. Every few years I remove it. Is there some coating I can apply to ...

Q: I have lived in my house for 25 years. Just in the past couple of years, some kind of mold or mildew has formed on the vinyl siding on the north side of the house. Why is this happening, and what ...