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Chesmar Homes Mythbusting: Can You Clean a Cast Iron with Soap?
If you learned anything from your granny’s granny’s granny, it’s that a cast iron skillet is meant to be seasoned, used, and never, ever, washed with soap. You’ll ruin the seasoning, you’ll rust the pan, you’ll throw away all the years and years and embedded flavor in that seasoning. So you can’t wash your cast
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Keep You And The Family Safe During Hurricane Season 2015
While Danny has barely crossed over the Lesser Antillies, it would still be wise to get ready for the height of hurricane season. Usually between the months of August and November is when we start to see the big storms develop and head our way. With Danny being the first named Hurricane of the 2015
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Tips To Keep Your Home Cool In Summer
Most of us who live in Texas have felt temperatures hit the triple digits on more than one occasion. We crank up the A/C but we really feel the burn when we open our electric bills. Americans spend more than $15 billion each year on air conditioning. So let’s learn how to keep our houses
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10 Ways to Utilize Your Spare Room
At Chesmar Homes, we pride ourselves on giving you an exemplary product in the form of an energy efficient home that exceeds the Energy Star 3.0 qualifications. For those who are shopping for some of our larger models with four and five bedrooms, but who only need 2 or 3, you’re undoubtedly left with plenty
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How To Unclutter Your Attic
After the long and brutal winter we have experienced it is natural to want to clean up the clutter and start fresh with the warmer months. The first step to being able to clean up your home is to get rid of items in storage that no longer serve any purpose. The attic serves as
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Chesmar Homes’ Tips for Spring Cleaning Safety!
Once we get past all of this rain we’ve been having, it’s looking like spring weather will finally be here. That would be as good a time as any to finally get started on your annual spring cleaning (if you haven’t started already). Before you know it, everything will look fresh and new and smell
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Let Chesmar Help You with Your Homeowner New Year’s Resolution!
While almost everyone has already decided on a New Year’s resolution and have begun the steps to completing it. But if you’re anything like us, you’ve been dragging your feet, perhaps even avoiding the issue. We understand. We also want to help. Every week we bring you great tips and tricks on how to keep
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How to Clean a Cast Iron Pan – WITH Soap!
If you’re moving into your first home, or you just got married, or for some other reason you have decided it is time for you to start Acting Like an Adult, then chances are good you have recently acquired a cast iron pan. The cast-iron pan, along with the Kitchen Aid stand mixer and a
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The Best Way to Organize Closet Space
That new suit, those designer heels, that lovely fur coat: if your closet is a wreck, you might as well not even have these nice things. A clean, well-organized closet is the only way to maximize all of your clothing purchases and can give you a refined sense of self. If you’re like the majority
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Top 10 Things to Know About Houston
Houston is an amazing city in both its size, humidity, booming economy, and diversified culture. There are an estimated 30,000 new people moving to Houston every single day, and that means a lot of people who don’t know anything about our wonderful city. So if you are a new Houstonian or are considering becoming one,