The whole house, in one place.
Rooms, systems, the equipment inside them, the parts that fit and everything that has been done. It is what the upkeep plan is built from, because an interval is only right if it comes off the thing itself. Ask about any of it and the answer is already sitting there.
HandymanTwo places at once.
Every thing in the house hangs off the room it is in and the system it belongs to. The furnace is in the basement and it is heating and air, so a question about either one finds it.
Thermostat
Main floor · Heating & air
Reporting now. 68 degrees, heat idle, last seen two minutes ago.
- Model
- Learning thermostat, 4th generation
- Installed
- March 2024
- Linked
- Since the day it went in
- Next
- Nothing due
History
- Firmware updatedAugust 2026
- Schedule changed in the houseJune 2026
- Installed and linkedMarch 2024
Smart lock
Main floor · Electrical
Reporting now. Locked, battery at 71 percent.
- Where
- Front door, keypad deadbolt
- Installed
- May 2025
- Battery
- Due around March on this pattern
- Next
- Nothing due
History
- Codes reviewedSeptember 2026
- Batteries changedMarch 2026
- InstalledMay 2025
Smoke and CO alarms
Upper floor · Electrical
Three of four reporting. The hallway unit has been silent for nine days.
- Units
- Four, interlinked
- Installed
- January 2023
- Hallway unit
- Not reporting
- Next
- Check the silent one
History
- Hallway unit went quietNine days ago
- All four testedFebruary 2026
- InstalledJanuary 2023
Furnace
Basement · Heating & air
Runtime arriving through the thermostat. Cycling normally for the season.
- Filter
- 16x25x1, two on the shelf
- Installed
- November 2019
- Last service
- October 2025
- Next
- Filter due in nine days
History
- Filter replaced14 March 2026
- Annual service, Bramble MechanicalOctober 2025
- Ignitor replacedFebruary 2024
Water heater
Basement · Water
- Type
- Fifty gallon, gas
- Installed
- August 2017
- Warranty
- Ends November 2026
- Next
- Anode check before it does
History
- FlushedJune 2025
- Thermostat replacedSeptember 2022
- InstalledAugust 2017
Sump pump
Basement · Water
Float sensor reporting. Ran eleven times last night against a normal of two.
- Type
- Third horsepower, pedestal
- Installed
- April 2021
- Backup
- None on file
- Next
- Open thread, checking the discharge line
History
- Eleven cycles overnight, thread openedLast night
- Pit clearedMay 2026
- InstalledApril 2021
Main shutoff
Basement · Water
- Type
- Quarter turn ball valve
- Where
- Basement, north wall behind the shelving
- Photographed
- On a visit, March 2026
- Next
- Nothing due
History
- Photographed and locatedMarch 2026
- Turned, moved freelyMarch 2026
Electrical panel
Basement · Electrical
- Service
- 200 amp
- Installed
- 2004, with the house
- Directory
- Photographed and read in
- Next
- Nothing due
History
- Panel directory photographedMarch 2026
- Two circuits relabelledMarch 2026
Outdoor unit
Exterior · Heating & air
- Size
- Two and a half ton
- Installed
- November 2019, with the furnace
- Last service
- May 2026
- Next
- Coil clean in spring
History
- Coils cleanedMay 2026
- InstalledNovember 2019
Water meter
Exterior · Water
Arriving from the linked water account. Up 140 percent on a five bill trailing average.
- Account
- Linked, municipal water
- Reads
- Daily
- This period
- 140 percent above the trailing average
- Next
- Tied to the sump thread
History
- Overnight flow with nobody homeLast night
- Usage flaggedThree days ago
- Account linkedJanuary 2026
Roof
Exterior · Envelope
- Covering
- Asphalt shingle
- Age
- Replaced 2016, before you bought it
- Paperwork
- Prior invoice on file
- Next
- Look at it at the ten year mark
History
- Prior invoice read in from a documentFebruary 2026
- Checked from the groundMay 2026
Gutters
Exterior · Envelope
- Run
- Front and rear, guard on the rear
- Last cleared
- April 2026
- Trees
- Two maples over the front run
- Next
- Clear before the first freeze
History
- Cleared, front run heavyApril 2026
- Guard added to the rearOctober 2025
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A sample home. Ask by room or ask by system. Both roads reach the furnace.
The whole house, joined up.
Everything hangs off two places at once: the room it is in and the system it belongs to. That is what turns a list into something you can ask questions of.
The furnace is in the basement and it is heating.
So a question about either one finds it. That join is the whole difference between a list of appliances and something that can answer you.
- Room
- Basement
- System
- Heating & air
- Filter
- 16x25x1
- In since
- 2019. Still original.
Standing in the aisle.
It knows the furnace you own, the size it takes and when the last one went in. The answer comes back before you have found the right shelf.
Where the shutoff is.
The valve nobody can ever find, in words anyone in the house can follow. Told once, then kept.
Every part that fits.
The filter size, the belt, the bulb, the cartridge. Once it knows the model it knows what goes in it, so you are not measuring anything in an aisle.
- Furnace filter
- 16x25x1
- Fridge water
- Carbon, twice a year
- Dishwasher salt
- Coarse
- Smoke alarms
- CR123A x4
Still under warranty?
Parts and labour run out on different days and different companies owe you each one. Handyman holds both.
Who fixed the roof last time.
Every trade who has worked on the place, what they did and when, kept against the address rather than in your head. You stop being the filing cabinet.
Four systems, four rooms, one house.
Heating and air, water, electrical, envelope. Each holds the things inside it, and each of those also sits in a room. Ask either way and it finds it.
- Heating & air
- 3 things
- Water
- 4 things
- Electrical
- 3 things
- Envelope
- 2 things
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