Your Home Maintenance Partner
We’re proud to help thousands of homeowner manage their house. At the foundation of this support is home maintenance reminders, a project planner, a fact recorder (e.g. paint colors), and more. Today we’d love to know which feature you like most? For you’re trouble you will be entered into the $20 Amazon gift card giveaway. Leave a comment below if you have suggestions for further improvements. Good luck!
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1. Save Paint ColorsIt can be a real pain to get paint colors in the house matched. The best solution is to record a fact for each color as you paint the house.
For most homeowners their house is their most valuable asset, so it makes sense to protect it. Realizing the importance of home maintenance can help to save money through fewer repairs, fewer service calls, and better energy efficiency. To create customized checklists all you have to do is setup a home profile and add spaces. HomeSpot will automatically suggest maintenance tasks, depending on the list of spaces.
Continuing from the last point, you can also add custom tasks to the maintenance checklist. This can be helpful for special equipment or unique homes.
Derek Smith, CEO of Implore Technologies, the maker of HomeSpot HQ (https://www.homespothq.com ) will be the featured guest on the Home Toolbox show, tomorrow June 8th, 2013 at 8:30am Eastern.
The Home Toolbox is a weekly show broadcast in Cleveland, OH on WELW 1330am and Internet streamed on welw.com. It covers all topics related to homes and homeowners. The show is hosted by Bob Gallese, a Cleveland area home contractor.
A live stream of the show can be viewed at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-home-tool-box.
Every car owner knows that maintenance is important to prolong the life of the engine and keep the vehicle safe. So why don’t homeowners show the same maintenance prowess towards their house? Most times homeowners simply do not realize what maintenance is required and when each task should be performed. I found myself in this same position with my first home, and I paid the price.
The air conditioner was not been properly serviced the first year of me owning the home. At the beginning of the second year I noticed that the AC was having a hard time keeping the house cool. Even after turning the thermostat down several extra degrees, it couldn’t maintain less than 78-80 degrees Fahrenheit.
An HVAC professional was called to the house and ran a pressure test on the refrigerant lines. He was able to immediately conclude that there was a small leak in the line that had been slowly letting the refrigerant escape. After fixing the hole, he recharged the system with refrigerant to the tune of $350!
The cooling system immediately started working great again, but the costs didn’t stop there. The AC had to work doubly hard to maintain the temperature in the house for the past month. My electric bill jumped from about $300 to $600! It was a very pricey lesson.
HomeSpot HQ is always looking for ways to improve the user’s experience. This week, with the goal of adding a resource library, we have acquired www.HomeMaintenanceTracker.com. This website is similar to HomeSpot with a focus on home maintenance software and resources. Using the resources from this website, we plan to build a comprehensive article library over the next couple months. These articles will provide additional information on maintenance tasks to better assist DIY types and homeowners who are simply looking to learn a little more about caring for a house.
As always, we open to suggestions from our users. Please feel free to comment below or send us a suggestion from your HomeSpot account under the ‘Feedback’ tab.