Owning a home requires a lot more responsibility than renting. If something breaks down, there’s no landlord to come and fix the problem; it’s in the owner’s hands. That means the responsibility of keeping a home clean and maintained is up to the homeowners. Your realtor, mortgage lender and everyone on the Internet has told you how important it is to keep your home maintained, as well as thousands of ways to do it. But why is it so important? 


As a home maintenance and repair company, Our main purpose is to help homeowners who have systems and appliances that fail from old age and normal wear and tear. 


Home Maintenance Saves you Money, Home Maintenance Keeps Your Home Running Efficiently


The worst part of maintenance is that it’s just that: maintenance. It requires completing a task over and over again, and often, to provide upkeep for your home’s working parts. It’s just like sweeping the kitchen floor; you have to keep sweeping it every week or so to keep it clean.
 If you didn’t, imagine the state of the floor! Now think about how often you clean our your dishwasher’s filter or unclog your bathroom drain probably not as often as you sweep the floor, correct? Yet you probably use them almost as often as you use the floor.


Just like you have to continue to sweep your floor to keep it usable and clean, you have to clean and maintain the other parts of your home to keep them usable. If you don’t, you will end up having your home run less efficiently. If you don’t clean the furnace filter, you’ll be paying for more gas or electricity as your HVAC system works hard to cool or heat air in your home. 


If you don’t clean the evaporator coils under your fridge, it has a harder time keeping your food cool, and uses more energy to do so. When you maintain your home, you keep it running efficiently, which also saves you money with lower utility bills.


Home Maintenance Increases your Home’s Value


When you drive a new car off of the lot, it immediately drops in value. The resale value decreases the longer you drive the car and the older it becomes. This principle doesn’t work the same for a home. In fact, the longer you own a home, the more you could increase its worth. Of course, home values have to do with the market and not solely what you do to the house, but you can still have a direct effect on your home’s value by maintaining your house.


How does this work? If you decided to put your home up for sale tomorrow, and you hadn’t maintained any of your systems and appliances, you would find that the home inspection report would probably show that your home had a lot of problems or potential problems. 


Buyers would either want a discounted rate depending on the issues that your home may have, or ask you to replace or repair systems that may give them trouble in the future. Either way, you won’t be getting as much money out of the sale of the home as it could potentially be worth.


For more information on home maintenance and how you can benefit from them, go to our home page at https://anvybuilding.com.au