Now is the time to make sure that your oven is clean and working properly. You may be tempted to use your oven’s self-cleaning feature, but beware! Self-cleaning right before a big holiday can leave you without a working oven if things go wrong. Here are some important tips to know before setting your oven to self-clean.

Laundry is part of life’s weekly grind. Did you know that dryers cause roughly 15,500 home structure fires, 29 deaths, 400 injuries and $192 million in direct property loss each year though? What’s more, most dryer fires happen in the winter. This may come as a shock, which is why learning how to prevent a dryer fire is so important.