Description

Everybody knows about building maintenance – and what everybody knows about building maintenance is that it is expensive, it can ruin a perfectly good Saturday afternoon and you are invariably not doing enough. But what very few people know is why we are supposed to do house maintenance – 9 times out of 10 the answer to that question is durability.

Maintain your home and it will look after you by maximising the lifespan of its individual components, Hose down your house regularly, for example, to reduce the need for major repairs to the cladding.

Scope

This article includes:

• Clause B2
• 5, 15 or 50 years?
• Fixed for life
• Just 15 years?
• Failure detection
• All the colours of the rainbow
• A weekend house washing