When you get the keys to you new home, you feel joy, contentment and a sense of immense relief. After all the wait, your dream home has just become reality. You and your family feel the power of not be answerable to the landlord and you go about personalising your home, be it hanging a ton of pictures or re-painting the walls in your favourite colour or upgrading the bathroom or rolling out your customised persian carpet. But lo and behold, while you have that power, the power also comes with responsibility. And the responsibility we talk about here is not the responsibility to the community and your co-owners but about the responsibility to maintain your home.

Just like you regularly go for health check-ups, your home too needs some TLC !!. This is where the usage of quality building materials becomes indispensable, quality materials have longer warranties, quick service and enhanced life thereby immensely reducing your home maintenance costs. The good news is that @ Ridgewood we have done our part by using quality building to materials to start with, that said, regular home maintenance is necessary and can keep you away from breakdowns and save money in the long run.

Doing tasks randomly can get overwhelming, and it might get difficult to keep a track of things already done and things that need attention. In order to maximise and ensure all the tasks are done, you might consider creating a home maintenance checklist.

Most of the home maintenance tips which we list here will not require a professional and could be done by you, what is essential is to create a list and do the inspection and maintenance at the recommended interval.

Monthly Maintenance Checklist :

Inspection of your fire extinguisher

Cleaning taps, shower heads and health faucets

Cleaning Washing machine inlet taps, Dishwasher inlet taps for deposits

Garden Maintenance including fertilising and weed removal

Bi-Annual Maintenance Checklist :

Wet Scrub of the entire house

Dusting every nook and corner of the house especially windows and other hard to reach spaces

Checking water level in inverter batteries Annually

Cleaning your outdoor area including any outdoor furniture you may have. While cleaning also check for slope in the outdoor to avoid water stagnation

At Ridgewood we believe that Quality though priceless should be affordable. We use the highest Quality building materials from the BEST BRANDS to keep your maintenance costs low and and your living experience pleasant.