HOME OWNERS ALL KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO MAINTAIN THEIR HOME TO PROTECT THE VALUE. 

IF YOU CAN'T "DO IT YOURSELF", HIRE SOMEONE.  If you don't want to do it yourself, hire expereinced people to perform maintenance for you.  Don't let your home deteriorate for lack of regular maintenance.  I've seen many Home Inspection Reports wherein the Home Inspector cites "DEFERRED MAINTENANCE" and the need for further inspection, all due to poor home owner maintenance.  Many home onwers, particularly first time home buyers, don't understand how quickly deferred maintenance can easily turn into a defect.  Maintenance is much less time consuming than repairing defects.  Home owners who neglect or defer maintenance will lose significant value if they need or wish to sell their home. 

HAVE A MAINTENCE SCHEDULE. I have a strict schedule for maintence of my home.  Since I prefer to work in my real estate practice rather than performing maintenance on my home, I use the services of a HANDYMAN service based in Hamilton.  I've written about this service before when I had a list of maintenance tasks that were scheduled for July.

My home is 2 1/2 years old and when I did a walk through inside and out, I made a list and checked it twice and called the Handyman service.  They did a wonderful job of minor repairs and maintenance tasks.  However, my house needed a serious cleaning on the outside.  Folks in brick and/or stone homes don't have the problem of dirty siding, mildew growing on siding and decking material.  Then there are those dirty windows and, of course, there's no need cleaing the windows unless the dirty screens are done also. 

So, yesterday was the day to POWER WASH the exterior of my home from the ground up, clean those windows and screens, window wells, and anything else that got in the way. 

The front of my home gets limited sun and is subject to mildew.  Power Washing works.

How do garage doors get so dirty?                             Even Trex gets dirty. 

Courtesy, Lenn Harley, Broker, Homefinders.com, 800-711-7988.