A Year of Essential Home Maintenance Projects

January 31, 2022   D. Guerra

Caring for your home and everything in it will help you preserve its value. However, it can be overwhelming to tackle all your home maintenance projects in a short period of time. It’s much easier to maintain your home when you perform some upkeep each month. In a year’s time, you can tackle all the most crucial aspects of maintaining your house and everything in it. Use this guide to refer to all year long as you tackle your home’s most pressing home maintenance projects.

January

Carpets, Couches, and Chairs

After the holidays, your carpeting and furniture upholstery can become seriously soiled. While you can hire professional cleaners to visit your home and clean these features, you can also tackle them yourself relatively inexpensively. 

To clean your carpeting, you can rent a rug-cleaning machine from a home improvement center, or you can clean the carpet by hand using a solution of baking soda, water, carpet shampoo, and towels.

Bathrooms

Your bathrooms get heavy use on an ordinary basis, in particular during the holidays when you have visitors and they are in operation 24/7. January is the perfect month to give them a good clean and make sure everything is working properly, bathroom maintenance is something that is regularly neglected by homeowners.

Your shower heads are commonly overseen, however, they too need a deep clean every now and then. It will help remove any debris and stain and make them look new, there are great online guides on how to clean a showerhead properly.

Toilets are certainly a crucial aspect of your home’s plumbing system. Take time this month to ensure that each is working properly. Be sure that water isn’t running and there are no leaks. Toilet kits are inexpensive, so if you need to swap out old or worn parts, this is a good time to do that.

Kitchen

Set aside time this month to deep clean and organize your kitchen. Be sure to tackle such tasks as:

Clean refrigerator coils

Clean the garbage disposal

Reorganize the pantry (remove expired items)

Clean pipes beneath the sink

Clean the oven

Check the kitchen smoke alarm (and update the fire extinguisher)

This is an essential home maintenance project that needs to be properly carried out every year.

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