Are you tired of spending too much money on recurring major home repair expenses?
We can feel you how frustrating they’re.
What if we share some hacks with you that would change your life 360 degrees and reduce your major home repairing expenses up to 70%?
Here’re the best tips for regular home maintenance on timely basis:
Monthly:
Inspect Filters of HVAC(Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning):
Make sure you check out the filters of your heaters, ventilators and air-conditioners monthly.
Replace them if expired.
Clean the Disposal of Kitchen’s Sink:
Monthly, clean the gathered disposals of your kitchen’s sink. Otherwise, they would create odours in your home.
Place a reminder about that.
Quarterly:
Flush Toilets & Run Water in Idle Spaces:
Wash your toilets by running water and flushing them, especially those that remain unused to prevent grime and other similar stuff.
Biannually:
Check Out Your Geyser’s Pressure Relief Valve:
Remove all the corrosion and mineral in the pipes to prevent leakages and improve efficiency.
Go for Your House’s Deep Clean:
Once in 6 months, choose a Saturday for home’s deep cleaning as home maintenance. Clean all your appliances, furniture and every corner of your house to get away from dust banks.
Clean Your Refrigerator Coils with Vacuum:
Take off the grill over the refrigerator’s coils and clean them with your vacuum.
This would increase its performance.
Annually:
Spring:
Check the Drainage Outside Your Home:
Find out whether there are puddles outside your home or not. If yes, then raise the floor for better drainage.
Open Gutter Clog:
Leaves could get stuck inside the gutters in the spring. Therefore, pay someone to flush out those leaves to stay away from any blockage.
Inspect Your Home’s Exterior:
Look for paint chipping. Similarly, also watch out any crack in the foundations. Silicon and caulk can benefit from several problems like them.
Call AC Mechanic for Its Service:
Spring is the right season for your AC’s service. It’d help you in getting the most cooling air in the summer. The best part is, it’d also reduce energy consumption.
Close Your Windows’ Gaps:
Hate insects inside the home?
We also!
The best solution is, fill and close all the gaps and holes in your windows and get rid of your enemies(insects).
Wipe Off Dead Plants and Shrubs:
They seem peaceful, but they can create cracks and holes in your home’s exterior. That’s why wipe them off, for the home maintenance.
Don’t Let Trees Interfere in Electrical Lines:
Imagine you’d have an urgent meeting with a rich client, but can’t iron your clothes because of damaged electrical lines by your tree.
Horrible, right?
So cut down those parts of trees that could harm the electrical lines.
Professional Roof Inspection in the Spring:
Hire a handyman to search for cracks or leakages on the roof and repair them as soon as possible.
Summer:
Fill Grounds in the Tiles:
Wherever you have used tiles for the walls and floors, fill the ugly grouts and make your bathrooms and kitchens look-alike new.
Check Plumbing Leakages and Low Water Pressures:
Look around your water pipes and taps and if you find any leakages or low water pressure, then call a plumber for a low-cost fix.
Summer – The Playground of Insects:
Here comes the insect again.
Enjoy summer by playing “Call of Duty” against the insects by using insects repellers in different forms to kill them like hell.
Clean Garage in Summer Especially:
Summer and dust are close friends. The garage often gets neglected for maintenance. Wash and clean the garage like you wash your toddler after he comes back playing in the mud.
Autumn:
Remove Sediment from Geyser:
The easiest way to remove the geyser’s sediment is by flushing. If you can do that then fine, otherwise let a handyman do that.
Time to Pack Your Air Conditioners:
As you don’t need to use air conditioners any more soon, so pack them all to secure them from dust.
Prepare Heaters for Winter:
Check your heaters in advance whether they’re working correctly, for the upcoming winter or not. Repair them if you find some troubleshooting.
Winter:
Wash Shower Heads for Better Water Pressure:
Calcium and minerals stuck in the showers’ heads that reduce the water pressure. In result, take off their heads and wash out all.