Home Maintenance schedule

Yearly tankless water heater service

If you have a whole home generator probably want to crank it up quarterly

I spray pesticides every 3 months. Spray down my grinder pump every 6 months. Air filters every 3 months.

I use the “Tody” app to keep track of everything. Even add simple tasks to it like vacuuming, wiping counters, cleaning stoves.

Pest Control: We outsource pest control, and they came spray inside and out every month for first 6 months after construction, then once per quarter.

Pressure wash: This may be needed initially if it rains after final grading, but before laying sod. The rain splashed mud on the bottom 12 inches or so. Once per year isn’t a bad idea.

AC: You can get on a maintenance schedule with a local AC company. I find it a waste of money, especially when the unit is so new. I do recommend spending the money and getting a higher MERV rated filter and change every month for the first 6 months or so. You’ll have a ton of “construction dust” that you’ll want to filter out. After 6 months, you can get a cheaper filter and change once per month, or stick with the better and change every 2-3 months.

Lawn Care: You’ll want to stay on top of your pre-emergent and fertilizer schedule. If you seed, you can’t use pre-emergent obviously, so you’ll fight weeds year 1. Just stick with it, don’t get down on yourself, year 2 will be much better and weed free if that’s what you’re trying to achieve.

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Explain. I will have one

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You have to clean out the calcium deposits so that it runs properly

Looks like that’s not the case for everyone. Y’all made nervous so I checked the manufacturers website:

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Many believe that a tankless water heater needs annual maintenance, but that is a myth, according to Jason Fleming, marketing manager at Noritz America. “There’s no set time frame to service a tankless water heater,” explains Fleming. “It all depends on the hardness of the water.”

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“In a very hard-water area, this could mean servicing the unit once a year, but in an area with softer water, you might go four to five years without any maintenance,” estimates Fleming. One way to cut down on the water hardness is to use a water softener with your tankless water heater.

To sum up: Maintenance frequency completely depends on location and whether the water heater has scale detection software. It occurs on a case-by-case basis, and there is no set schedule.

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Other things:

Bulbs: you’ll probably have a lot of types of bulbs in your new house. I try to keep them all in one place and write the date I bought them and what they’re for. The random ones are typically from Amazon and I can just go back and reorder.

Filters: stay one cycle ahead on all filters. Again, I write the date bought and installed. My ac one is this big thick thing that I change once a year (but like someone said earlier, maybe change it sooner in year one for construction debris. Also, same with fridge and under sink water filters. Try to have one on hand and order when you replace. And write the date installed on it.

It’s probably best to pull out and clean under appliances yearly. Dust can eat up a fridge.

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Change A/C filter on the first of each month.

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Do you work for the air filter company????

Depending on pets in house, 3-6 months.

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I’ve heard the same from AC guy. He said just get the cheapo one and change every month, which would save money on filters in the long run. (It’s really not that much of a savings)

Not sure if he wanted my unit to burn out faster so he could make more on replacing, so I didn’t listen

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Note the high MERV filters (unless you have one that uses 4" or thicker filters) are the filters that will beat up your fan motor with too much restiction.

I’ll throw my weird one out there - full drain cleaning on all accessible drains every 6 months.

Clean hair from tub/shower drains, take apart traps in sinks and clean, etc.

Have 3 females in my home.

We use a heavy duty drain cleaner every 6 months. Simple to put down the toilets and let sit overnight.

Gotta love 50 year old cast iron drainage.