You did everything right. You emptied the fridge, propped the doors open, shut off the water supply, maybe even followed a checklist just like the one we published on preparing your appliances before leaving for the season. And yet here you are, back in Sarasota, and the washer won’t drain, the fridge is warm, or…
Every spring, a big share of Sarasota’s population packs up and heads north for the season, and every fall, a good number of those same homeowners come back to a dishwasher that smells like mildew, a washer with a moldy door seal, or a refrigerator that never quite recovered from sitting idle for months. None…
Hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30 along the Gulf Coast, and for most of that stretch, Sarasota homeowners are watching the same thing everyone else on Florida’s west coast is watching, the National Hurricane Center’s cone of uncertainty. Bottled water and plywood get most of the attention in storm prep conversations, but…