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Maintenance Guide Maintaining your home is important to ensure a healthy indoor environment. The following are some recommendations for keeping your home as healthy, durable and energy efficient as it can be.
- Winter Maintenance Recommendations
- Change or clean your air-handling filter.
- Clean and inspect your ventilation system's filters.
- Clean exhaust fans and vents in bathroom and kitchen
- Have fireplace and flues checked and serviced
- Have your heating, cooling, filtration, and ventilation systems professionally inspected.
- Test your fire alarms/smoke detectors and carbon monoxide monitors. Replace batteries.
- Spring Maintenance Recommendations
- Change or clean your air-handling filter.
- Clean and inspect your ventilation system's filters.
- Clean exhaust fans and vents in bathroom and kitchen
- Clean and inspect your dehumidifier in preparation for summer.
- Inspect and clean rain gutters.
- Properly dispose old stored household chemicals like paints and cleaners from house and garage.
- Inspect interior and exterior of house for signs of moisture intrusion.
- Summer Maintenance Recommendations
- Change or clean your air-handling filter.
- Clean and inspect your ventilation system's filters.
- Clean exhaust fans and vents in bathroom and kitchen
- Inspect all outside hoods for debris and blockage. These would include combustion air inlets, dryer exhaust vents, and ventilation inlet and exhaust vents.
- Clean outside grill of air conditioner compressor.
- Inspect grade around perimeter of home for a 5% slope; bring in fill for any areas that have settled.
- Inspect and clean rain gutters.
- Change damper on central humidifier to "off" or "summer" position.
- Clean or replace humidifier pad on central humidifiers.
- Use a humidistat-controlled dehumidifier to monitor interior relative humidity (RH); keep below 50%.
- Fall Maintenance Recommendations
- Change or clean your air-handling filter.
- Clean and inspect your ventilation system's filters.
- Clean exhaust fans and vents in bathroom and kitchen
- Have fireplace and flues checked and serviced
- Inspect caulking around windows and doors, re-caulk where necessary.
- Inspect and clean rain gutters.
- Clean outside grill of air conditioner compressor and cover for winter.
- Inspect weather-stripping on doors, including garage service doors.
- Inspect interior and exterior of house for signs of moisture intrusion.
- Inspect roof shingles for damage and missing shingles.
- Close outside hose spigot valve (usually in basement).
- Have furnace and water heater serviced.
- Monthly Maintenance Recommendations
- Check ground fault circuit interrupter and associated circuits (GFCI test button).
- Check expiration and pressure on fire extinguishers.
- Check plumbing connections and fittings for leaks.
- Test smoke and carbon monoxide alarm features (test button).
- Check memory on carbon monoxide alarms for peak levels.
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