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Westchester's own "Home Inspector Joe" has everything you need to know to do it the right way.

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All right. There are less than 21 days until Christmas and a week to the first day of winter. I don't like, I don't like talking about that. I just go, don't worry, Kevin, we're gonna go ahead and make sure that we're gonna have any cold air coming our way as we move on in towards those first few days of winter coming on up because you can see that temperature trend for the month of December shows us trending on the warmer than average side. In which case, the average high throughout the month is around 39 to 47 degrees. So we'll be seeing sixties and seventies. No, but we'll be trending a little bit around 47. Are you a little bit warmer? Yeah, it's certainly possible. Especially heading up in tours this weekend. I'll show you those numbers in just a moment first. These numbers right here as we're continuing the countdown for the holiday season. We do have winter officially arriving December 21st in the evening hours, 17 days from now. Christmas arrives, of course, December 25th, 21 days from now. So you still have time to go ahead and continue some holiday shopping and New Year's Eve, of course, getting ready to ring in 2024 27 days from now. Now looking out and about, it's a quiet night out there past the Cuomo Bridge. We are watching those skies getting clearer as time goes on, temperatures cooling down to the upper thirties and then we'll watch more cloud cover head our way going in through the middle of the day, but no showers are coming out of those clouds. In fact, we'll continue to enjoy a dry stretch of weather. We certainly do need to have that kind of raw wet day on Sunday. Well, look at this. Our next chance of rain is coming up this coming Sunday where we're gonna be watching a large system moving towards the northeast, but Saturday is gonna be beautiful. It's my pick of the week. Probably cloudy guys, 53 degrees for a high running nearly 10 degrees above the average high of 44. So for your future cast, we go tomorrow afternoon, we have temperatures in the thirties and forties feeling a little bit cooler. And then by Wednesday morning, we see those temperatures in the twenties and thirties having a touch of a chill in the air. So each and every morning going forward, it's gonna feel a little bit colder and colder. Getting in towards Friday to Saturday. Here comes that system heading our way. A southerly breeze will help to boost those temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Then here comes the rain, Sunday morning, just rain coming on down, breezy winds. Then the system is out of here by Sunday night. So we should go in towards our Monday coming out of next week with drier, yet cooler air coming on down. So guys overall a very nice stretch of 10 days with one dreary day in sight.

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Westchester's ‘Home Inspector Joe’ says it may be time to clean out your home’s drainage systems

Well, it may be time to clean out the drainage systems in your home, Westchester Zone. Home. Inspector Joe has what you need to know. So you do it the right way. You gotta know what's going on with your house. You gotta know what's going on in your basement. Like myself here, I started getting water in my basement out of nowhere. Never had a problem with water suddenly getting water in my basement. So what did I have to do now already? You can see my down spouts come down, they go into the ground and this right here is a newer PV C pipe. I had to replace this elbow because it broke in the ground and I started getting water in there and right here below the ground here underneath all the way up this entire length, all the way here to this corner underneath the ground, about a foot down. It brings it all the way down to here and I have two other drains in the ground as well. I was getting water in my house out of nowhere. The influx of water around here is astronomical. I put a drainage system in here. It's a corrugated pipe. It's got gravel, that's, it, sit, sits on gravel. It's corrugated and it has a felt on the top and then boom, I just put the mulch in the dirt right back over it. All the water that runs down the hill because it's pitched this way comes down. Once it hits here, it goes into the drain right into the drain versus into my house into the drain comes down here. I went underneath my sidewalk, went underneath the sidewalk. I put a drain over here to collect this water. There's another drain over here to collect that water. So this water comes here. This water goes. These two drains are connected and then it goes out to the front yard away from my house since I've done that dry as a bone knock on wood, dry as a bone. I get no more water in the house. It's the best money I've ever spent. The best money I've ever spent right here. All that information is why Joe has a new TV series coming out on H D TV. It's called What's Wrong with that house? It is premiering later this year.

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