The Seasonal Home Maintenance Checklist

Nobody sat you down after closing and said: here's what this house needs, and here's when.

So you find out the expensive way. The roof leak that started as three lifted shingles. The AC that died in a heat wave because nobody rinsed the condenser. The water heater that rusted through because sediment sat in the bottom of the tank for nine years.

None of that is a skill problem. It's a knowing-when problem — the jobs are twenty minutes and the consequences are years away, so you never get the feedback that would teach you.

This is the list. Free, 15 pages, print-ready.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• 70 maintenance tasks sorted into Every Season, Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter

• A checkbox for every job, so you can print it and work through it

• How long each one takes, what the parts cost, and what a pro would charge

• One line on why each job matters — what actually happens if you skip it

• Conditional jobs marked "only if" — septic, pool, gutters, fireplace, sump pump, irrigation — so you can ignore what you don't have

• Plain instructions: what to do, in the order to do it

WHO IT'S FOR

First-time buyers who never got the manual, and anyone who has owned a house long enough to have been surprised by a bill.

IF YOU'D RATHER NOT TRACK IT ON PAPER

HomeFix Calendar asks six questions about your house — age, climate, which systems you have — and filters this same library down to only your tasks. It reminds you before things get expensive, logs what you did and what it cost, keeps appliance model and serial numbers with warranty dates, and gives you one honest monthly number for what the house costs to keep. Free to use, nothing leaves your device: pkpublishing.com/tools

General homeowner reference only. When a job involves gas, major electrical, structural work or working at height, hire a licensed professional.