Home Care Maintenance.

Quarterly Maintenance and Inspection Plan

The Home Care Maintenance Plan is designed to completely ‘maintain’ a home from top-to-bottom, inside-and-out. It covers all home maintenance which is defined as the observation, reporting, adjusting, cleaning, lubricating, tightening, and general servicing that is needed to keep functional home items operating according to their intended use. Every maintenance plan begins with a comprehensive inspection to categorize the type of fixtures you have so that Handyworks will have a knowledge database of all the types of fixtures and appliances that are in your home.

Give us a call or contact us through our website and we’d be happy to send you more information describing exactly what is covered by the Home Care Maintenance serves

This allows our technician to bring with them the correct parts at the time of the quarterly visits. Saves time for the homeowner and gives the technician more time to maintain your home. This includes general maintenance such as replacing heating filters, removing leaves from gutters once a year, tightening and adjusting taps and shower heads, small repairs to walls and floors and more. We take a quick look at the rest of your home every quarter so we can head off any major repairs. Major repairs or remodels are scheduled and quoted separately.

Who are the average users of the Home Care Maintenance Plan?

Many of our customers fall into one of the following categories

1. Busy individuals / Professionals / Senior citizens / or people who do not have the time, interest, or skills to maintain their home, or would simply rather be doing other more enjoyable things in life. Home Care Maintenance Services provides an option that has never existed… the option to outsource home maintenance to professionals who are solely dedicated to the single competency of residential maintenance. The Home Care serves is a way to hand over much of your ‘To-do’ list to professionals who are happy to do it for you.

2. Seniors who would like to stay in their own home but are at a point in life where they’re ready to let someone else deal with physical demands of maintaining their home.

3. Builders, Realtors, and other Home-sellers use the Home Care Maintenance serves as a ‘sales incentive’ tool to help differentiate their properties and promote

4. Single Parent Households and Surviving Spouses are also common users of the Home Care Maintenance serves for many of the same reasons mentioned above. The time, physical ability, skills, and tools needed to properly maintain a home can be daunting for many. This can be especially true for single parents and surviving spouses.

5. Children of Aging Parents will often purchase the Home Care Maintenance serves for their parents. The Home Care Maintenance Plan is a way to ensure that the home is being properly maintained while providing a healthy and safe environment for aging parents. What a great way to give back to your parents for all they have done for you! And the care-giving children don’t have to give up their time, evenings and weekends maintaining their parent’s home. Home Care provides a much-needed solution for aging seniors, especially in those situations where the care-giving children have relocated to different parts of the country, or world, and their parents need some help taking care of their home.

Does someone need to be home during the service call?

No. It is not necessary for anyone to be at home during a quarterly service call. AFFIX® will contact you to set up appointment times and method of access in advance. AFFIX® representative will always confirm the visit within 48 hours before the scheduled appointment. At this time, you can also let them know of any concerns you wish for them to address during the visit if time permits.

How much does the service cost?

Every Plan starts with an inspection, you can have us look at your home and give you a detailed explanation of what we find. This usually takes 2.5 to 3.5 hours. About R2000 to R3500. Home Care Maintenance program costs only R750 per month. This gives you a two-hour quarterly maintenance visit. Two hours every three months!

Are there any other fees?

Only if we have to buy the materials for you. Caulking, heater filters, insulation, washers for taps and more. We will let you know what is needed for our next visit and you can either choose to get it yourself or have us pick up the supplies. If the repairs are more of a concern and need to be addressed before our next visit, we will talk this over with you and take whatever action you want us to. Unscheduled visits are at R600 an hour minus the 10%-member discounted hours.

What do you cover during these seasonal visits?

Spring:
Check and clean gutters. Power wash deck your porch (if time permits). Check for leaks around the windows and under your sinks and toilets.
Summer:
Caulk around windows and doors if needed. This usually needs to be done every 3 years. Apply moss killer on roof if needed. Check hot water for pressure and leaks. Inspect bathrooms. Re-caulk showers and tubs as needed. This should be done every 3 years.
Autumn
Check and clean gutters and downspouts. Clean and vacuum home heating units (aircon filter). inspect fireplace with all necessary checks, including chimney cap
Winter:
This is the time when we take care of your priority” list. At this point your house is already set for the winter. Now is the time to take care of those little nagging projects. Loose hinges on the doors, creaking stairways, loose cabinets, dripping taps, replacing loud bathroom fans, and more.
Each home is different. We may have other items that you may want to have us take care of such a clean slippery dock, power wash patios, hang Christmas lights and take them down and so on. We can make a schedule just for your home and design it to fit your needs.