Florida houses sit on concrete, and the water lines run underneath it. When one starts leaking, the house tells you in small ways before it tells you in expensive ways.

Salt air does not break an air conditioner all at once. It takes capacity away quietly, through corrosion you have to get close to see.

Your AC pulls gallons of water out of the air every day and sends it down a drain line that never gets a chance to dry out. That is exactly the environment algae likes.

A red alarm light on a grinder pump means the tank is filling faster than the pump is emptying it. Here is what to do in the first ten minutes, and how to tell a…