NEW - DIY Seal This, Leave That: Andy Baryer's Summer Home Fixes

Home maintenance tips that actually save money this summer start with knowing where your house is leaking money without you realising it. Andy Barrar of Handy Andy Media walks through the gaps that are quietly wrecking your cooling bill and the gaps you should never fill if you want your deck to survive the seasons. The Gaps That Cost You A stick of incense is all it takes to find the air leaks around your window frames that are fighting your AC all summer long. Andy covers caulking, weather stripping, and window film as the fixes most homeowners skip, then explains why the same logic flips completely when you pick up a deck board. The Gaps That Save You (And One Idea for the Kids) Wood expands in heat and contracts in cold, which means the quarter-inch gap you left in July will almost disappear by January. Andy breaks down spacing, staining, and the composite deck question nobody has a clean answer to yet. Then the conversation turns to keeping kids connected this summer without handing them a smartphone, and why a cellular smartwatch might be the smartest ten dollars a month you spend. Topics: home maintenance tips summer, window sealing, deck building gaps, kids smartwatch, DIY home savings GUEST: Andy Baryer | handyandymedia.com | @handyandymedia Originally aired on 2026-06-29