Tips to save your house interiors before monsoon hits

Rain Rain go away, come again another day. This nursery rhyme might have surely reminded you of your childhood days. But unfortunately those lovely days didn’t remain the same right?  How many of you have already began worrying about the precautions we need to take at our home before monsoon arrives.

To make the task simpler for you, we are here with a few tips that you must follow before Mumbai monsoon hits the city.

1. Waterproofing : This is a problem that most of the houses suffer from. So waterproofing is done to fill the cracks and any kind of leaks on walls to avoid wall leakages.
2. Encase Electrical Wires : Make sure you encase all electrical fitting including wires and sockets to avoid any short circuits. Nowadays many households have circuit tripping breakers that cuts off the power supply thus avoiding avoids short circuits.
3. Protecting Wooden Furniture : Wooden furniture usually catches moist during monsoon. To avoid your furniture from getting spoilt you need to polish and coat it with varnish, apply varnish only if your furniture is too old.
4. Fill the Tile gaps : Filling the gaps between the tiles is necessary as it prevents your house from fungal growth. You can do this by filling the gaps with cement.
5. Re-paint your doors or windows to avoid rust : If you have metal doors or windows, they tend to catch rust which leads to some disturbing noises due to the friction created when you open or close them. To avoid this, re-paint your metal doors or windows.
6. Go for a Pest Control : Rainy season invites various mosquitos, cockroaches and leaches that seem to walk freely in your house during the rains. Apart from the sickness that they spread, a few of them are also dangerous for your furniture. So make sure you keep your floor as much as dry and clean.
7. Avoid books from moisture : If books are your first love, you would surely save your love, isn’t it? Save your books from moisture that causes damage to the pages inside. What you could do to avoid the damage, simply use moisture absorbents and make sure your almirahs are tightly shut.
8. Roof checks : Be roof ready this monsoon. You can prevent your roof from calling a roof checker who will inspect your roof and fix small problems that later turn on to become huge mishaps.
9. Drainage System : Drainage system is a prolonged issue suffered by Mumbaikars majorly. Considering the population that the city of Mumbai has, drainage system is a challenge for the Mahanagar Palika every year. Well, you can’t help the city as a whole but you can do your bit by dumping the garbage at the right place that doesn’t block the holes and allows water to drain properly.

Just simply follow these tips and you are sorted for the season but amidst all this don’t forget to enjoy the season of love, romance, fun and of course cosy homes with some garma garam chai and mouth-watering bhajaiyas.

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