7 Can Help maintain your home with Good Housekeeping’s Home Renovation Awards
Looking to remodel or maintain your home? 7 Can Help with Good Housekeeping’s home renovation award winners.Dan DiClerico, Good Housekeeping’s director of home improvement and outdoors, and his team test and review top picks.”Seventy-seven winners this year, which is the most ever, but that’s out of hundreds and hundreds of submissions, we spend about 10,000 hours in all testing these products,” DiClerico said.A new category this year is for portable power station, featuring new alternatives to gas generators if you lose power.Best Portable Power Station: Anker Solix F3800 Portable Power Station”Emissions-free, clean, quiet, and you can set it up to kick on automatically in the event of a power outage,” said DiClerico. The Anker Solix F3800 is on sale now for about $2400.In the heat pump category, Good Housekeeping touts “game-changing” technology that can save households money.Best Heat Pump: Trane XV20i Variable Speed Heat Pump”The big winner is from Trane, its variable speed heat pump. We installed that system; it saved the homeowner a few hundred dollars over the course of the winter,” said DiClerico.Pricing varies for the Trane XV20i, but Good Housekeeping says up to $8,000 can be covered from tax credits.Another favorite pick from Good Housekeeping retails around $50 and can save you thousands.Best Leak Detector: First Alert L1 Wi-Fi Water Leak and Freeze Detector”A single leak can cause up to $5,000 worth of damage,” DiClerico said. “You put it on anything that might at some point spring a leak, so it could be your water heater, your washing machine, as soon as water or moisture touches this sensor, you’re going to get an alert to your phone so you can jump in and deal with the situation before it becomes catastrophic.”For a full list of Good Housekeeping’s Home Renovation Award winners, click here.
Looking to remodel or maintain your home? 7 Can Help with Good Housekeeping’s home renovation award winners.
Dan DiClerico, Good Housekeeping’s director of home improvement and outdoors, and his team test and review top picks.
“Seventy-seven winners this year, which is the most ever, but that’s out of hundreds and hundreds of submissions, we spend about 10,000 hours in all testing these products,” DiClerico said.
A new category this year is for portable power station, featuring new alternatives to gas generators if you lose power.
Best Portable Power Station: Anker Solix F3800 Portable Power Station
“Emissions-free, clean, quiet, and you can set it up to kick on automatically in the event of a power outage,” said DiClerico. The Anker Solix F3800 is on sale now for about $2400.
In the heat pump category, Good Housekeeping touts “game-changing” technology that can save households money.
Best Heat Pump: Trane XV20i Variable Speed Heat Pump
“The big winner is from Trane, its variable speed heat pump. We installed that system; it saved the homeowner a few hundred dollars over the course of the winter,” said DiClerico.
Pricing varies for the Trane XV20i, but Good Housekeeping says up to $8,000 can be covered from tax credits.
Another favorite pick from Good Housekeeping retails around $50 and can save you thousands.
Best Leak Detector: First Alert L1 Wi-Fi Water Leak and Freeze Detector
“A single leak can cause up to $5,000 worth of damage,” DiClerico said.
“You put it on anything that might at some point spring a leak, so it could be your water heater, your washing machine, as soon as water or moisture touches this sensor, you’re going to get an alert to your phone so you can jump in and deal with the situation before it becomes catastrophic.”
For a full list of Good Housekeeping’s Home Renovation Award winners, click here.
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