Adam Post , The House Doctor Advisor - Springtime House and Garden Preventative Care Maintenance Tips

Adam Post , The House Doctor Advisor - Springtime House and Garden Preventative Care Maintenance Tips

Spring time is an intelligent time to perform some basic but vital home maintenance. Spring home servicing projects are all about identifying any effects caused by nasty winter conditions and performing whatever work is called for to defend your home from the high heat and sometimes thunderstorms that come with summer.

Homes large and small all require regular maintenance and labor to avoid costly big repair bills. Performing regular home maintenance can help prevent time-consuming and expensive projects later. You would be wise to protect your family's most important financial investment by performing an periodic check of a few basic items. For an even more complete guide of routine home maintenance, hire a professional, licensed and insured building technician (or at least a qualified home inspector) to inspect your home and identify whatever unavoidable weatherproofing work that needs to get performed to protect your home for another year.

Home care and repair projects are important to maintaining the long term value and integrity of your home. They include things like roofing fixes, interior painting, caulking, waterproofing, water-damage repair, window improvement, furnace or heater servicing, plumbing repairs, septic system or sewer maintenance, and any electrical safety repairs. It is vital that you have these home maintenance and repair projects addressed and completed first.

Something as seemingly simple and inexpensive as waterproof exterior caulking with a little elbow grease and work can go a long way. In fact, exterior caulking is one of the most valuable exterior maintenance tasks you can perform - and, of course, it helps protect the interior of your home. While exterior caulking is all about keeping water and wind (i.e. costly cold air drafts out) interior caulking is largely about beautifying the look and feel of your interior spaces. (Note: interior caulking also provides a valuable "interior wind barrier" especially around windows and doors, so I do not mean to downplay its significance in any way.) Interior caulking is what puts "the shine on the apple" metaphorically speaking, while exterior caulking provides protection from the elements (wind and water-borne precipitation).

Creating (or simply finding and using a guideline template for Home Maintenance) so that you actually perform preventative maintenance work on a regular schedule is one of the best and smartest ways to protect the investment you've made in your home. A typical home maintenance schedule or checklist might look sort of daunting, but it's probably really just a relatively short checklist of items that need to get done on a monthly, quarterly, semiannually, or yearly basis.

Here is a sample seasonal home maintenance guide (note this is just a partial guide, for sample purposes only): Clean all gutters. check for damage caused by ice in winter (if applicable), turn off/on any outdoor hoses at their indoor shutoff valve source, in fall, allow exterior hose "bibs" (i.e. faucets) to fully drain and leave, insulate water pipes near exterior in cold-weather areas. Prepare for winter/summer any air conditioning units as required (or, if necessary, remove/replace window air conditioning units). Check entire exterior of house for water damage, leaking, etc. Roof and Flashing: Make sure the roof does not leak, and that the flashing is impervious to water. In particular, check flashing around the chimney, knee walls, parapets, gables, windows, doors, skylights, etc. Make any and all repairs necessary to ensure a waterproof roof and exterior building envelopw. Furthermore, check to make certain that no tree branches are touching the roof or walls.

Most of these inspections are not time consuming or very expensive. If you discover issues above your ability to repair, contact a trained specialist and get the necessary work completed before costly damage occurs.

Above all else, remember the age-old advice of Benjamin Franklin who reportedly said: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This is especially true with home and building maintenance. Performing regular, routine maintenance ensures safety of your home and, importantly it also minor issues turning into more costly repairs.

If you find you lack either the energy, the motivation, the physical ability, or the knowledge to perform regular seasonal home maintenance, then you would be well advised to utilize the services of a qualified home proprty management professional.

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