Organize Your Home Maintenance

How often do you check that you are up to date with the maintenance around your home? Do you have a master list, which you follow to ensure that nothing is forgotten, preventing high fees on a poorly maintained home?

By maintaining something, you are potentially increasing the life span of the item. This can be your home in general or smaller items that are essential for the smooth running to continue.

If you don’t have a master list, which you transfer into your regular schedule, how do you know that there are no current issues? A master list of house maintenance tasks is essential for those little jobs not to forget and cause major problems down the line.

Monthly Home Maintenance Schedule

• Cleaning your extractor fans is an important monthly task to ensure there is no a build-up of residue causing the extractor to not function properly.
• If you have fire extinguishers in your building, checking they are full and in working order, check these monthly.
• It is important that you check your tumble dryer vent and hose monthly, it’s surprising how much lint ends up here and is a fire hazard.
• Check your home for signs of leaks on the inside.
• Change batteries in smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
• Get your boiler served yearly; it can prolong its life.
• Your refrigerator has coils on the back, hoover this annually to reduce any possible reduction in capability.
• Check and clear gutters and drains, ensure they are free from debris.
• Look over the outside of your home for any signs of wear or damage.
• Checks seals in the kitchen and bathroom; this can prevent a possible leak if there is damage to the sealant.
• Ensure trees that are near your home are kept trimmed to avoid any damage to your property from a rotten branch falling on your home, or that the vegetation isn’t hiding any damage.
• Check your attic for signs of leaks or damage, also inspect for any animal that has crept in. Seek professional help to remove pests; some can be tricky or illegal to move.
• Check all doors and handles to ensure the screws are secure.

Yearly Home Maintenance Schedule

Organizing your home maintenance schedule

Organizing your home maintenance can save you time and money, you know what jobs need completing and when. It takes the guesswork out of home maintenance. It is important that you consider any costs that go with home maintenance; ensure you have considered this expense in your monthly budgeting plan. It will mean that if you have an expense the money will be there to get the job completed, without the need to borrow money with interest payments or have the stress of knowing a job needs completing, thus delaying the procedure and potentially making a worse situation in the end.

Spread the jobs throughout the year, it means that you are not doing all tasks at once. It is important that you complete certain jobs when the weather is good; it makes the health and safety of yourself a priority and not cleaning out gutters in the rain or strong wind, because you forgot in the summer.

Therefore, creating a home maintenance schedule for your home will protect the value of the property; an un-maintained home could also invalidate your insurance policy. Making maintenance a priority ensures you are looking at the long-term value of your home, protecting it from wear and tear that can cause damage to the structure of your home.