"Essential Winterization Tips for a Safe and Cozy Home"

The City's Department of Buildings provides a checklist for winterizing homes, including sealing windows and doors, insulating attics, hiring qualified professionals for boiler and chimney inspections, maintaining heating systems, cleaning chimneys, insulating water meters and pipes, thawing frozen pipes carefully, preventing roof leaks, checking and changing batteries of smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and avoiding fire hazards.