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Greetings, everyone! I'm still in the midst of holiday activities, so it's another busy week. I hope you all are warm and safe in the wake of recent storms. I'd like to extend my thanks to wit-nit for kindly filling in for me with last Tuesday's questions. Now it's time to scroll on down to see what I came up with for
TODAY'S QUESTIONS - ABOUT THE HOUSE
Do the window openings in your home contain screens?
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)?
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home?
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting?
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls?
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table?
Do you use placemats on your dining table?
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas?
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep?
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently?
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard?
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set?
That's all the home-ly questions for today, folks. Have a great day, and don't forget to commit an act of kindness before it's over.
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Do the window openings in your home contain screens? Yes, they do.
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? Blinds and draperies.
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? Not that I know of.
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? All but the stairs.
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls? The kitchen and bath are tiled.
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? Yes, most of the time. In summer I use place mats.
Do you use placemats on your dining table? See above.
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? Yes, it's wood-burning.
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? No, but we don't use the fireplace anymore due to air quality concerns.
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? The roof has been replaced, and it's about 15-20 years old, I think. We need to replace it again soon.
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? No.
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 70º F.Thank you, Pammy!
Greetings, everyone! I'm still in the midst of holiday activities, so it's another busy week. I hope you all are warm and safe in the wake of recent storms. I'd like to extend my thanks to wit-nit for kindly filling in for me with last Tuesday's questions. Now it's time to scroll on down to see what I came up with for
TODAY'S QUESTIONS - ABOUT THE HOUSE
Do the window openings in your home contain screens? some
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? blinds
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? No
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? All rooms except kitchen, bathrooms and foyer.
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls? No
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? No. I don't eat at my dining table.
Do you use placemats on your dining table? No
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? Not in this apartment. Apartments in NY and MD had wood burning fireplaces.
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? Nope. Never used the fireplaces except 1 time in NY. In MD, the apartment complex hired the chimney sweepers.
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? N/A
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? No
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 72
Do the window openings in your home contain screens? Most of them do.
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? Drapes, valences, venetion blinds, honeycomb blinds.
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? Never been any.
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? @80%
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls? Tiled floors in kitchen and 2 baths.
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? Always.
Do you use placemats on your dining table? Always.
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? n/a no fireplace.
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? n/a
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? Yes If not, how old is the roof presently? 17 yrs.
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? Yes.
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 74F
That's all the home-ly questions for today, folks. Have a great day, and don't forget to commit an act of kindness before it's over.
Greetings, everyone! I'm still in the midst of holiday activities, so it's another busy week. I hope you all are warm and safe in the wake of recent storms. I'd like to extend my thanks to wit-nit for kindly filling in for me with last Tuesday's questions. Now it's time to scroll on down to see what I came up with for
TODAY'S QUESTIONS - ABOUT THE HOUSE
Do the window openings in your home contain screens?
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)?
Blinds and Heavy thermal drapes right now
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home?
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting?
Most of it, except foyer, the kitchen and two bathrooms
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls?
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table?
Do you use placemats on your dining table?
Sometimes Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas?
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep?
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently?
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard?
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set?
75
That's all the home-ly questions for today, folks. Have a great day, and don't forget to commit an act of kindness before it's over. TY
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Do the window openings in your home contain screens? - My one small window has a screen.
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? - It has a curtain.
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? - Nope.
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? - Zero
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls? - My entire apartment has tile.
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? - N/A. I do not have a dining room table. I eat all of my meals on my desktop computer desk.
Do you use placemats on your dining table? - N/A but I do have two of them.
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? - No fireplace.
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? - N/A
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? - My apartment is in a basement of a historic rowhouse.
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? - N/A
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? - 74 degrees F.
That's all the home-ly questions for today, folks. Have a great day, and don't forget to commit an act of kindness before it's over. - Thanks, Pam!
I live in rural SW France so some of the answers reflect that.
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)?
The big thing round here is that most houses have wooden shutters, and are great for keeping the house cool in summer, and protectin against storms etc, as well as providing security. We also have mosquito blinds and curtains in some rooms.
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? No
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? None
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls?
Ceramic tiles in the bathrooms, and kitchens (one for guests). Ceramic or wooden floors.
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? Occasionally
Do you use placemats on your dining table? Generally
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? Wood stove in the main room.
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? If you wish to use the fire then by law you have to have the chimney swept annually, or fire insurance is invalid.
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? No- roof here is traditional tiles, around 40 years old.
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? A couple.
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 20 C.
Do the window openings in your home contain screens? Just had my windows replaced, all have full screens.
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? Venetian blinds downstairs, sheer curtains upstairs
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home?
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? Just the stairs leading upstairs. It was way too much money to have them hardwood.
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls?
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? Long, long time ago
Do you use placemats on your dining table? Always
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas?
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep?
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? Yes, it is about nine years old.
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard?
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 75--only because I am a nervous nelly about our water pipes freezing and bursting because temps have been in the single digits. Today, temps are going into the high 30's so I will turn it down to 72 later.
Do the window openings in your home contain screens? Some do
What types of window treatments are in your home (e.g., Venetian blinds, honeycomb blinds, curtains, drapes, valances, etc.)? Blinds and drapes
Is there presently or was there ever wood paneling in your home? Nope and nope
How much of your home, if any, has wall-to-wall carpeting? None, just huge area rugs
Is there any ceramic tile in your home, on floors or walls? In the bathroom
Do you ever use a tablecloth on your dining table? On the very few times we use our dining room table, we have one
Do you use placemats on your dining table? Yup
Is there a fireplace in your home? If so, does it burn wood or gas? It is a wood burning fireplace. What I hate is it's not working now
Have you ever hired a chimney sweep? Nope
If you own a house, have you ever had the roof replaced? If not, how old is the roof presently? We've had parts of it replaced a couple years ago
Do you have an outdoor thermometer in your yard? Yup. It's attached to the garage
On what temperature do you presently have your home's thermostat set? 72
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