Your Trusty Annual Home Maintenance Checklist [Infographic]

When you own a home, your work is never finished.

Sure, you have a new big project want to hire a local and affordable handyman to work on, but you should have a regular and annual home maintenance checklist of tasks to attend to as each season changes.

No one wants a never-ending list of home maintenance tasks to keep up with. However, regular home maintenance will help you all year long. Here is a list of only a few benefits that you will reap by ensuring your home and property is properly maintained all year around:

Save money on unexpected but avoidable repairs.
Extend the lifespan of your tools, equipment and home systems
Decrease safety risks around your home
Decrease possible health risks and concerns
Increase your home’s resale value
Improve your home’s appearance

While your maintenance checklist might be long, you can lessen the workload by splitting the tasks up by season. It is also best to have the necessary supplies depending on the season and tasks to be performed. The following infographics will help you organize your annual home maintenance to-do list.

Fall Home Maintenance Checklist

Fall is a short season, but it’s a nice buffer between summer and winter. The weather is still usually pretty nice and the temperatures are still high enough to work out in the yard. Your fall preparation should keep in mind that you will be spending more time indoors in the coming months.

Winter Home Maintenance Checklist

You need to be diligent with certain tasks in the winter time like shoveling and keeping ice and snow off your roof. Nonetheless, the winter time is a great time to focus on indoor home maintenance tasks so you don’t to have worry about them when the big chill is over.

Spring Home Maintenance Checklist

After the long, dark and cold days of winter, you are very welcoming the thawing of the spring and it’s eventual change to summer. This is the prefect time to declutter the inside of the house and get the outside ready for the beautiful weather that is right around the corner.

Summer Home Maintenance Checklist

You have been waiting three long seasons for the beautiful days of summer. Sure it is time to head to the beach and grill outside, but don’t sleep on your home maintenance. Fall and winter will be back before you know it.