Home Maintenance Checklist

Here are three easy to follow checklists to help your Triad home well maintained and tip-top shape so it’s ready to hit the market when you are.

Weekly Checklist

Saturday morning is calling, or maybe some other day in the week depending on your schedule.

• Vacuum all carpets and dust/swiffer the hardwoods and tile.

• Take 30 min to complete a small yard maintenance item. Whether it’s pruning the azalea bushes or painting the mailbox, your lawn will stay in great shape with 52 small projects completed over the year!

• Check for bathroom maintenance like missing grout, loose spigots, sediment on faucets, or bad light bulbs

• Freshen up your garbage disposal. Run a tray of ice cubes through it, along with some baking soda or lemon rinds, and voila! It’ll be clean and fresh again.

• Clean the outside of all appliances and the inside of one appliance per week. For instance, if you clean out the refrigerator this week, run a cleaning tablet through your dishwasher next week, and descale the coffee maker after that.

Monthly Home Maintenance

These are the projects we all know we should do regularly but often don’t get to. Just pick an afternoon, and go for it!

• Clean the range hood and filter. This can be a big eye-sore and a big chore when it comes time to sell unless it’s been touched up periodically.

• Clean the furnace filter, and replace it if needed. This will help your furnace run efficiently, and keep your energy bills down.

• Polish wood furniture, dust light fixtures and wipe down baseboards.

• Check your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to make sure they’re functioning and don’t need new batteries. Batteries should be changed every six months, a good way to remember is to go ahead when changing the clocks for daylight savings time. If you have a fire extinguisher, make sure it’s fully charged.

• Visually inspect the outside of your home for problems or issues, such as loose shingles, damaged siding, insect nests, or overgrown trees or shrubbery. Make a note to correct the problems!

Yearly Home Maintenance

Schedule these tasks in a way that makes sense to you. You can do them on a seasonal basis or just schedule one or two days per year to knock everything out.

Here are some bigger tasks to take on once a year:

• Clean and organize your garage, basement or attic. This is a maintenance task that everyone dreads doing, but makes a great rainy day project! Plus, you’ll most likely discover some forgotten treasures to either donate to charity or sell online. If you have items, but don’t know a local charity we’d love to help connect you to helping in the Triad.

• Wash windows and window screens, and let the sunshine in! While this task is often done in the spring, you can do three seasons in the year.

• Take on one major outdoor improvement project per year, and schedule a day or two to complete it. For example, you might want to install a fence, refinish a large deck , patch up an asphalt or concrete driveway, or install raised garden beds.

• Clean out gutters, check under the eaves, remove trees or shrubbery that are encroaching on your home, and install wire grates in any holes to keep pests out.

• Freshen up one room in your home. Pick any room, and give it a mini makeover. For instance, you can repaint it, switch curtains, move the furniture, and add plants and knickknacks to give it a whole new look. Updating one room a year will help keep your home from looking dated when it comes time to sell no matter how long you live there!

By following this easy checklist, you can have a wonderfully maintained home with a minimal investment of time and energy that will be ready to hit the market when you are! If you feel like you might be getting ready to find a new owner for your home, we are here to help make sure your home is ready!

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