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Why it is important to maintain your sweet home?

Updated: Jun 25, 2020

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining "

Whether you intend to stay in your home for many years or sell it, it is required to carry out regular maintenance and repairs. Staying on top of the minor things will help you in avoiding big problems later down the line.

Handyman A.K.A Serviceman

As a homeowner, other than just making sure the equipment in your house looks good, home maintenance holds incredible importance. It will usually involve things like making minor repairs to equipment around the house, looking for leaks and cracks in walls and roofs, flooring, and wall paints.

Most people won’t hesitate to insist that home maintenance is important. However, they will often fail to give you reasons why they think that is.


Major features like plumbing and heating should be monitored and serviced on a regular basis. Not only are they necessary for comfortable living, but they can also be very expensive to replace.


If on the other hand the features are aging and inefficient, it may be worth a replacement to save on monthly bills in the long term.

Various Maintenance Activities of a House

Here are 5 quick reasons why we need to do so, the maintenance?

  • It saves you money, in the long term. - Aging and inefficient equipment use up a lot more money and resources than new ones. An air filter that’s not undergone any maintenance in a while, for instance, is going to use up more energy than one that’s recently had the filters cleaned. Likewise, old pipes are better off replaced before they burst and start leaking water, leading to higher replacement costs.

For every rupee spent on preventive maintenance, you are going to save a lot more worth of damages and repairs. Simple problems are always better dealt with at the moment of their emergence.

  • It increases the value of your home- Aside from home upgrades and renovations, one of the most effective ways of increasing the value of your home is to maintain it properly. An easy way to think of this is considering you were to put up your house for sale tomorrow.

If none the house has been properly maintained in a while, you’d have a lot of dents in your home inspection report. The cost of fixing these issues would otherwise be bundled on the customer, leading to them asking for discounted rates. This way, properly maintaining your home helps to increase its value.

  • It protects your house from secondary damage- Secondary damage is the kind of damage that happens as a result of previous damages that have happened in the house before.

For instance, when flowing water bursts out of a pipe and damages the hardwood floors below. If the water gets into electrical outlets and messes up with the wiring in the house, or the roof collapses because of weakened trusses.

Obviously, this is going to cost a lot more to repair or replace rather than paying a professional to fix preemptively. Contacting professionals like "VCCMS's Maintenance" is a great choice to detect leaks and other sewage and plumbing issues.

A House Doctor
  • Home maintenance improves the living experience- Living in a house with a quiet air filter or furnace that doesn’t spew dust every other second is a vastly better experience than the other side of the coin. Regularly maintaining your home makes life easier as you won’t have to deal with the excessive noise of a creaky door, unlubricated machine parts, or cleaning up after a leaky roof.

Additionally, it helps you have more confidence in the integrity of every part of your house. Naturally enough, then, you’ll feel a lot more secure and comfortable living in it.

  • It helps to keep away pests- The direct proportionality between the number of bugs in a house and how poorly maintained the said house is something that needs no explanation.

Bugs flying through the neighborhood and finding a crack in your wall, for instance, are going to decide they have found their new home. Ants and wasps deciding to settle in your attic and termites eating up wooden trusses all over your house will be a huge problem if you don’t keep your home maintained.


Water can be detrimental under certain circumstances. This is another instance where it is very important to stay on top of the little annoyances that can become expensive disasters.

Not only will regular upkeep maintain the comfort and look of your home, but it will also help you to maximize its value if you decide to sell.


We at Vinayak Construction Consultancy and Maintenance Services (VCCMS), we deal with all the problems and help you out with experienced personnel, who are experts of both old and modern world, house maintenance problems/solutions. We do it very efficiently, keeping it economical and doing the job well in time according to the project's needs. You can count on us!


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