Why Regular Property Maintenance Is A Good Thing

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Most people who own property look for many reasons and investments that are geared towards making property maintenance less common. Obviously, if you’re having to fix everything from falling apart each week, you’ll probably feel a little exasperated and tired regarding the whole pursuit.

That said, regular property maintenance can actually be a good thing if it’s self-directed. This way, you can know exactly what’s going on in and around your four walls, as well as applying little fixes now to prevent big fixes and problems later on. For instance, inspecting your treeline once every month can help you immediately notice the onset or the growth of rot, which may need a tree surgeon to come and deal with it. This little effort might help you save money, and in this particular instance, actual lives that could have been harmed.

So, regular property maintenance is a good thing, provided it’s purposeful and not a game of costly wack-a-mole. But how do you implement it, and what are the virtues? Let’s consider that, below:

Improving Kerb Appeal

Kerb appeal is often something spoken about as if it were a binary consideration. Either you have good kerb appeal, or you don’t. Of course, that’s not true, and the reality is closer to the fact that there are several degrees of kerb appeal that work. For instance, Luxaflex, the leading manufacturer of bespoke window treatments in Europe, shares some advice for smartening up your exterior. But while fixtures like this can make a massive difference, good maintenance, such as trimming hedges, keeping an eye on your driveway condition, and fixing up installations (like an outside mailbox) can be essential.

Identifying Issues

Identifying issues with your property is only possible if you’ve spent time assessing them. For instance, it’s best to take ten minutes of your time to check around your bathroom and deep cleaning them every other month and see damp than it is to see damp growing behind a cupboard years from now. Identifying issues, be that in seeing pests in an exterior building, or realizing where paint is cracking or worse, subsidence is happening, can help you apply an immediate and worthwhile solution.

Keeping Track Of Fixes & Renovation

Over time, it’s easy to forget about the investments, implementations and repairs you’ve had within your home, and that can be a problem. It might be, for instance, that a fixture is in need of repair but thanks to bad inventory organization you can’t locate your receipt for the work conducted, meaning that you don’t know if it’s in warranty or not, effectively forcing you to pay for further work when you could have saved money. Keep track of the fixes and renovations you apply to your home, and keep that as part of your maintenance effort. It may save you funds or time in the future.

WIth this advice, we hope you can see how regular property maintenance is a good thing, if conducted on your own terms.