Winter Home Maintenance Tips: Prepping your home & car for the cold season

By Jess @_prettyliving

I do love wintertime. After months spent outdoors, whether working on a project or enjoying warm weather down at the beach, it is nice to slow down and spend time indoors with the family.

With the season also comes months of rain, so I always like to tick off some cleaning and maintenance jobs before the wet weather begins. Here are my winter home maintenance tips to get your home and car ready before the cold sets in.

Outdoor surfaces

After a season of outdoor entertaining, plus plants and trees dropping fruit and losing their leaves, outdoor surfaces like pathways, alfresco areas, and driveways can start to look worse for wear with a build-up of dirt and debris. If left over winter, the cleanup can become a huge task, so I always give these areas a good clean with DIGGERS™ Driveway Cleanup to reset the space before the winter rain begins.

Timber furniture/garden bed

Winter Home Maintenance Tips: Applying DIGGERS Linseed Oil to outdoor timber furniture and surfaces to protect from winter elements.

To prevent outdoor wooden furniture and timber garden beds from weathering in the rain, I re-oil them with DIGGERS™ Linseed Oil Raw Concentrate before winter begins. This seals and protects the timber throughout the wet season.

Car/caravan

Winter Home Maintenance Tips: Using DIGGERS Car, Truck Boat Wash to clean car and caravan

As beach trips and weekend getaways start slowing down coming into winter, I like to give both the car and caravan a good clean before the rain turns that dust and dirt from all the adventures into mud. DIGGERS™ Car, Truck & Boat Wash is heavy duty and leaves a streak-free finish, which makes it perfect for a pre-winter reset.

Walls

Part of prepping for winter means stocking up on DIGGERS™ Wall Cleanup to tackle those muddy handprints that always seem to end up on the walls. A simple spray and wipe removes them easily without leaving a residue or damaging the paint.

Multi-Purpose Cleaning

Winter Home Maintenance Tips: Using DIGGERS Multi-Purpose Surface Cleaner to disinfect hard surfaces.

DIGGERS™ Multi-Purpose Surface Cleaner is well-used in my household all year round, but during winter I find myself reaching for it even more to clean and disinfect surfaces and help keep those winter germs out of the house. Before the cold season hits, I always make sure I am stocked up and ready to tackle everything from benchtops to windows, quickly and efficiently, while keeping the home smelling fresh.

A little bit of effort before the cold weather sets in goes a long way. These winter home maintenance tips keep the cleaning manageable and the house in good shape all season long. Whether you’re getting ahead of the rain or just ticking off those jobs you’ve been putting off, DIGGERS™ has you covered.