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  • Maintaining Your Home
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Maintaining Your Home

Septic Systems:

  • Your Septic System: Overview and Maintenance
  • Considerations When Building or Remodeling a Home
  • What You Need to Know When Buying or Selling a House
  • How to Conserve Water in Your Home and Yard

Flooring:

  • Maintenance of Hardwood Floors

Home Improvements:

  • Tips for Avoiding Problems
  • Tips and Tools for Home Improvements (includes a sample building contract)
  • Reducing Drafts in Your Home
  • Moisture Condensation at the Windows

Last updated October 5, 2016

Your Home & Money

  • Consumer Issues & Personal Finance
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  • Maintaining Your Home
  • Tenant-Landlord Issues

Events

    Exterior of CCE Tompkins building at 615 Willow Avenue in Ithaca NY showing new greenhouse assembled summer 2021.
  • Board of Directors Meeting
    Thursday, April 6
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Board of Directors Meeting
    Thursday, May 4
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • CLOSED for Memorial Day
    Monday, May 29
    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Board of Directors Meeting
    Thursday, June 1
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • CLOSED for Juneteenth
    Monday, June 19
    8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

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Cornell Cooperative Extension
Tompkins County

CCE-Tompkins Education Center
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850-3555
TEL: 607.272.2292
FAX: 607.272.7088
tompkins@cornell.edu
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-3:00pm

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