Home Maintenance Tasks

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Nothing here is urgent, which is exactly why a flooded utility room is usually somebody's fourth ignored warning. Maintenance has no deadline and no visible reward, so it loses to everything else until the day it wins decisively. Draw one a month and the whole list gets covered in three years without ever feeling like a project. Thirty-six checks spanning safety, water, heat and the building itself. The smoke alarm test takes forty seconds and is the single highest-value entry.