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Home Maintenance Checklist

A maintenance schedule that is built around your house, not around an average one.

  • Excel + Google Sheets
  • USD / GBP / EUR
  • 25-section PDF guide

What it does

A maintenance schedule that is built around your house, not around an average one.

Most maintenance checklists are written for a house that is not yours. They tell you to service the air conditioning you do not have, and say nothing about the septic tank you do.

This file starts the other way round. Before it shows you a single job it asks twenty-one questions: what the house is built of, how it is heated, whether there is a garage, a fireplace, a well, a pool, how hard the water is, how old the roof is. Then it takes a library of a hundred maintenance jobs and removes every one your answers rule out.

What is left is a list of the things your house genuinely needs. You type in the date each job was last done, and from then on the file works out the next due date, counts the days and turns the row red before it becomes expensive.

What you get

Everything in the download.

  • Twenty-one questions that reshape the whole file
  • A hundred maintenance jobs, filtered down to yours
  • Next-due dates and a days-left count that updates itself
  • A dashboard showing what is overdue and what is close
  • Appliance inventory with install dates and warranty expiry
  • A running total of what maintenance has cost you
  • Contractor and document sheets in the same workbook
  • A 25-section PDF guide explaining why each interval is what it is

Inside the file

What it looks like when it is open.

Real sheets from the file, filled with example data. Click any of them to see it larger.

The dashboard: what is overdue, what is coming, what it has cost
The dashboard: what is overdue, what is coming, what it has cost
The task list, already filtered to the jobs your house has
The task list, already filtered to the jobs your house has
The twenty-one questions that decide the rest of the file
The twenty-one questions that decide the rest of the file
Appliances, install dates and warranty expiry
Appliances, install dates and warranty expiry
Every job logged with what it cost
Every job logged with what it cost
Everything included in the download
Everything included in the download

Questions

Worth knowing first.

What if I do not know when something was last done?

Leave the date empty. The row says NO DATE rather than inventing an overdue count, and it stays that way until you fill it in. Nothing is guessed on your behalf.

How long does the setup take?

About ten minutes for the twenty-one questions. After that you are typing one date at a time, as jobs get done.

I rent my house out. Is this the right file?

Not quite. This one is written for the person living in the house. If you are managing tenancies and renewals, the Tenant & Maintenance Tracker is the one you want.

Home Maintenance Checklist Spreadsheet

Bought and downloaded on Etsy. One payment, instant download, and the file is yours to keep.