New Homeowner’s Maintenance Guide

Welcome home! All homes require maintenance, and this homeowner’s maintenance manual will acquaint you with easy-to-follow tasks. Taking time to do preventive maintenance will make your home safer and save you money by keeping your home in working order.


Also included are homeowner’s maintenance checklists that provide important preventive maintenance that are specific to certain times of the year. Hopefully, by keeping up with these maintenance areas, you will be able to avoid issues before they become a major expense. These checklists will help you pinpoint when specific maintenance tasks should be performed on a monthly, yearly and seasonal timelines.


Toward the back of this manual is a glossary of construction and home maintenance and repair terms to assist you. And when necessary, this glossary will familiarize you with terms used in the construction industry that can be helpful when communicating with contractors. A few minutes spent reviewing this section can give you a better understanding of how your home was constructed. It can be of great benefit when dealing with different construction trades.


As a homeowner, it’s also important to manage and easily access all of your home’s documentation. And what better way to stay organized than to create a specific binder to hold together all your important documents—all in one special place. In this manual, you’ll learn how to create your home’s information binder.