I am selling a house that is almost 100 years old and our buyer has just had a full building survey done. It picked up a few things - which the surveyor wrote off as standard for a house of its age - but I am wondering how much the pretty much complete lack of maintenance work we've done has contributed to problems eg drying washing inside contributing to mildew, etc
It occurs to me that despite being in my thirties I am not at all clear about what regular maintenance jobs I should be doing around the house, beyond the odd spring clean and lick of paint on the walls
Thinking about my PIL who built their own house they seem to know what needs doing when and almost have a programme of works, eg before they got UPvc windows, my fil would sand and repaint window frames on an x yearly basis and hedges are trimmed 2 x year whereas our conifer hedge has been trimmed three times in 8 years and are too big and unruly to show for it
I suppose what I am asking is, what sorts of things would you build into your house maintenance programme - activity, frequency, etc ... And what happens if you don't do it
Eg
trim (especially conifer) hedges, 2 x year, otherwise grow too big and get brown die back inside so you can't later cut them right back as they won't grow green again
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Rogerthatmummy · 26/07/2014 10:11
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