What home maintenance plans includes
- Quarterly home safety visits
- Annual home safety reassessments
- Handrail and grab bar inspections
- Loose handrail tightening
- Minor drywall repairs
- Door and lock adjustments
- Door handle replacement
- Cabinet hardware repairs
- Faucet and minor plumbing repairs
- Light bulb replacement
- Smoke detector battery replacement
- HVAC filter replacement
- Weatherstripping
- Minor flooring repairs
- Trip hazard corrections
- Minor leak identification
- Gutter inspection and cleaning
- Exterior walkway inspections
- Seasonal home preparation
- Priority maintenance scheduling
- Photo reports for family members
How we handle maintenance plans
- Begin from the assessment report. The plan checks the fixes already made and the risks the report left for later.
- Set the visit schedule. Quarterly or annual visits, with the price of the membership in writing before the first one.
- Check, fix small things and report. A loose rail, a dead bulb or a lifted rug gets handled on the visit, and photos go to the family afterward.
What a visit covers
Every visit starts with a safety re-check against the same list the assessment used. We pull on every grab bar and rail and tighten what moves. We change bulbs, including the ones nobody can reach, put fresh batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and swap the HVAC filter. We check the gutters and the entry, and look for leaks and anything that has worn or shifted since last time. Small fixes are included and get done on the spot.
Seasonal prep
Visits follow the calendar. Before winter we check the front steps for spots where ice will form and make sure the path is lit. Before storm season it's gutters and drainage, and before summer it's cooling and filters. Each season brings its own risks for someone living alone, and the visit is timed to get there first.
A report after every visit
After every visit the family gets a report with photos of what we checked and what we did. If something bigger turns up, it's written up with a price and sent to you, and it waits for your approval. For a son or daughter in another city, those photos are often the part they value most.
Safety devices between visits
If you want to hear about trouble between visits too, the plan can carry smart home safety devices, like fall and activity sensors, leak sensors and an emergency call button. The smart home safety systems page covers what's included and what it costs.
What a crew on a schedule catches
People stop seeing their own house. The rail that moves a little more each month, the stain spreading under the sink, the bulb out in the stairwell since spring. A crew coming through on a schedule sees those with fresh eyes, fixes the small ones before they cause a fall or a flood, and tells the family about the rest.
The plan works on its own or after a project. Most families start with the assessment, so the first visit begins with the whole house already on paper.
Quarterly or annual
A quarterly plan suits someone living alone, or a family that can't check in often, since it puts a crew in the house every season. An annual plan suits a house that's already in good shape. Either way the visit follows the assessment checklist, so nobody is checking from memory.
If something changes between visits, a fall, a surgery or a new walker, call us and the next visit looks at the house with that change in mind.