Care schedule: every week, month, year and few years
The routine care for the surfaces in your home, grouped by how often, with what your maker says and the date you last did each item. Items for surfaces you do not have are marked so.
Essential on a first pass when you are caring for what is there: set the weekly items for each surface you have. The yearly and every-few-years items can wait until their season comes round.
Care schedule
Tick an item and write the date when you do it. Write in what your maker's sheet says beside each item; where it differs from the item, the maker wins. The intervals are this manual's grouping except where an item names a source.
How to use this sheet
- Items for surfaces you do not have are marked so. Ignore them; the list is the same for every home so that the export and print stay complete.
- Write what your maker says in its column. Where it differs from the item, the maker wins. A product the maker forbids can void a warranty.
- Write the date when you do an item. The yearly checks are easiest to keep tied to a date you already remember: the start of the heating season, a birthday.
- The grouping is ours. Weekly, monthly, yearly and every few years is this manual's grouping; an item that names a source (CRI for carpet cleaning, NWFA for recoats and humidity) carries that source's interval. Convention
Maya Ortiz rents one living room with a vinyl plank floor and an S-code sofa. Her weekly items are the hard-floor vacuuming and the upholstery vacuuming; her monthly item is checking the felt pads under the chairs and that no rubber-backed mat is back at the door. She is invented for this manual.
The schedule is a reminder, not an inspection. Cupping boards, a musty smell, water under a floor or cracked grout around a shower are signs for an inspector, restoration professional or tile installer, not for another round of cleaning.