The last thing that you would want to do on a Sunday is indulge in repair and maintenance of your home, given the time that is left after finishing household chores like cooking, laundry, groceries etc. Often, the importance of regular maintenance of your home is overlooked and ignored. Who wants to do it and who has the energy?
Maintaining your home is an essential part of maintaining cleanliness and hygiene in your house. To keep your home in good shape, you should definitely take out time to inspect and repair damages. And let’s admit, by maintaining your house regularly, you might actually prevent bigger and more expensive problems in your house.
If you are someone who likes to put off chores, it’s time to buckle up and take the necessary tools in your hands. Here is a checklist for some important areas that need regular maintenance:
Roof
You may put off the repair or maintenance of the roof, but giving it due attention now helps you prevent more expensive repairs due to prolonged damage. Look out for missing shingles or granules in the roof which may cause leakage in the future.
Your roof can also get affected by algae, lichen, mildew and moss, mould. All of this can significantly reduce the life of your roof, and its ability to absorb sunlight. Therefore, you should inspect your roof regularly and if needed, get roof pressure cleaning services for effective cleaning and maintenance.
Foundation and Basement
Maintaining your foundation is important to keep your house clean, comfortable and dry. It is advised to once in while inspect your foundation and basement for any cracks that may have developed, in order to prevent water seeping in through the cracks or rats coming in. Also, make sure the water is diverted away from the house.
Bathroom and kitchen fittings
Inspect the fittings in your bathroom and kitchen to look for potential cracks, leakages, breakage or malfunctioning. If you catch the problem on time, chances are, you may have prevented a big problem from striking unannounced.
Driveways and Pathways
Over time, driveways and pathways may begin to deteriorate in quality, and develop holes and cracks. It may be due to extreme temperature changes or passage of time. Inspecting them regularly is a great measure to prevent accidents, falls or trips.
A good way to maintain driveways and pathways in Australia is to regularly clean them. Pressure cleaning in Maitland can make your patios and pathways look new again and leave them glinting.
Gutters
Sit down and think – when was the last time you looked up or cleaned your gutters? You probably can’t even recall! This should not be the case. Whenever you are cleaning your house, make it a point to look up the gutters for potential problems, problems such as clogging, leakage or any other problem. Water from clogged gutters can overflow and cause damage to your roofs and foundation.
Siding
It is important to even inspect your sidings for potential cracks or breakages. Different types of sidings require different types of care. While vinyl siding can be cleaned through pressure washing, wood siding may need to be treated every four years.
Electronics
Your chimney might need a cleaning, the filter of your air filter may need replacement, your geyser may need a change of element, and this can be known through regular inspection. Check all the electronics of your house regularly and see if they are functioning properly. Otherwise, they will break down that very moment when you need them the most.
Check for infestations
Take a look at all the furniture, walls, corners, roof, basement, door and windows and see if there is any kind of infestation. These places can serve as breeding grounds for insects and pests like termites, mold, lichen, fungus. These spread at a very fast rate and if you are able to spot the infestation on time, you can save loads of time and money.
You may be thinking now that maintaining your house is not that difficult after all. All you have to do is take out an hour every weekend to thoroughly inspect the interiors and exteriors of your house, and catch the problems before they can wreak havoc.