The Ever Expanding Information on Home Maintenance
With the surplus of information on home maintenance found on the internet, homeowners today often find themselves frustrated and overwhelmed with too much information. In this case, too much is not helpful.
Gathering reliable and proven information on home maintenance seems to even more difficult than ever before. Homeowners have to pick and choose, or glean over the vast information to get exactly what they want.
Having a surplus of all this information may be bad news after all.
Reducing Your Frustration By Considering Your Choices
No matter how much information is out there, the good news is there are still only two basic choices when it comes to managing your home maintenance and repair , either:
- You do it, or….
- Someone else does it for you!
For some homeowners, this is again is not good news.
With there only being two choice in managing home maintenance, there still remains a number of questions as to why, how, when, where, what and who! Answering these questions correctly will ensure sound decision making.
However, the process of making sound decisions in managing your home maintenance can also be very frustrating if not carefully considering the following criteria:
- Why bother with home maintenance management
- How to effectively manage home maintenance
- When to schedule your home maintenance
- Where to look for home maintenance issues
- What to do with discovered home maintenance repair
- Who does the home maintenance & repair
Why Bother With Home Maintenance Management
For most home owners, the biggest investment they have or will ever make is their home. No matter if the house costs $100,000 or $1 million, it still is a big investment.
One thing for sure, no matter the price tag on the home, all homes are subject to the same problem… deterioration. Every single home is subject to weathering, wear and tear, and decay.
How well homeowners manages their home maintenance will reflect in the value of the property. Appraisals reflect the value of the home at its present condition. Show any slack or lack of attention, and it will reflect in the property’s appraisal value.
The better a home is maintained, the better the property value.
How to Effectively Manage Home Maintenance
There is a modern saying, “Successful systems make ordinary people extraordinary.” Embracing a successful home maintenance system is the most important aspect of effectively managing home maintenance.
This system should have an agenda or a plan of action. Taking action makes all the difference in avoiding costly home repair!
The first item on any homeowner’s plan of action is to become familiar with the 6 critical areas of their home. These areas include:
- Electrical system
- Plumbing system
- Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Internal Structural Components
- External Structural Components
- Water Management
Routinely spending just a few minutes in becoming familiar with these critical areas will assist you in quickly identifying any abnormalities.
When to Schedule Your Home Maintenance
The best time to schedule a home maintenance check is NOW! Take action, plan your next home maintenance check now while it is still on your mind.
Too many home repairs have been needlessly made by well intending homeowners. Getting in the habit of scheduling your next home maintenance check can help you avoid costly home repair.
According to the current condition of your home, most home maintenance schedules are typically performed every 6 to 12 months.
If the current condition is dire, it is advisable to monitor specific areas with more frequency as deemed necessary.
Where to Look For Home Maintenance Issues
As mentioned earlier, becoming familiar with the 6 critical areas of your home will facilitate a new sense of awareness. Being even more aware of any abnormalities or problems comes with knowledge and experience.
Knowing what to look for during your home maintenance check will also give you confidence when identifying any discovery of home repair. What better way to look for than by using a home maintenance checklist!
A home maintenance checklist will guide you through the home maintenance check step by step to ensure you take notice of all critical areas. Consider the home maintenance checklist to be the road map to get you smoothly from one area to the next, from start to finish.
Following a successful home maintenance plan will ensure that no home maintenance issues go unnoticed. You should systematically and routinely check from one area to the next.
Using a specific method or plan of movement is the best way to check for needed home repair and maintenance. Some use a room to room method while other homeowners will check one critical area at a time.
What to Do With Discovered Home Maintenance Repair
Knowing what to do with the discovered home maintenance repair(s) is essential to the whole process of the home maintenance check. Effective home maintenance management can be accomplished by understanding that all home maintenance & repair issues can be given priority by placing them into 3 categories:
- Safety Hazard, these repairs must be handled immediately!
- Schedule, plan date for home repair & maintenance.
- Monitor, keep a close watch on troubled area.
Whatever category you place the home maintenance & repair in, you’ll want to most importantly keep records in your home maintenance log. A home maintenance log will keep you fully informed of the past and present condition of your home. This collection of records can be reviewed annually or as deemed necessary.
Who Does the Home Maintenance & Repair
With any newly discovered home maintenance & repair issues identified, categorized, and marked for monitoring, you are set to make the final choice.
The choice to do the repair themselves as a diy home maintenance project, or have a home maintenance services provider step in do the home repair for them.
To some this step is very liberating and empowering, exercising the freedom of choice.
Others may not have that freedom due to several limitations such as lack of funds, in which case it is a diy home maintenance project!
However, the following criteria may merit a call for home maintenance service provider:
- Lack of tools
- Lack of talent
- Lack of time
- Lack of motivation
Whatever the case, the final decision or choice always lies with the homeowner.
This is the purpose of Double Check Home Maintenance Awareness
Double Check Home Maintenance Awareness is designed to empower homeowners to take control and manage their home maintenance through awareness education, experience, and service.
Awareness education equips the homeowner with insight and knowledge of when and where to look for current home maintenance issues. Homeowners experience more control now in making their home maintenance decisions.
With a newly acquired management skill set, the homeowner’s choices are quickly broadened involving:
- How to effectively manage home maintenance
- When to schedule your home maintenance
- Where to look for home maintenance issues
- What to do with discovered home maintenance repair
- Who does the home maintenance & repair
Empowered homeowners always having the final word as to who participates in the maintenance process can make the choice of taking on a DIY project themselves, or opting to contact a local certified Double Check Home Maintenance Services Provider.
Take a look at the choices you have with
Make Double Check Home Maintenance Awareness
Your Maintenance Home !
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About The Author
Rick E Patterson is a licensed General Contractor and is favorably known as the “Go-To-Guy”. He has gained notoriety as a Handyman Expert excelling in his innate, creative abilities to quickly analyze and provide practical solutions to home maintenance issues. Rick produces a series of how-to videos, and writes blogs and articles for homeowners sharing his insights, expertise, and experiences with others. To learn the other beneficial aspects of using a home maintenance checklist, go to
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