Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance: Electrical Systems

Name: Preventative Maintenance: Electrical Systems
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T16:31:50Z
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: For electrical system maintenance, test GFCI outlets monthly, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. Check exterior lighting and photo cells to ensure they work properly, as malfunctioning lights can create safety hazards. Label all electrical panels to easily identify circuits and inspect for corrosion or rust. Regular maintenance helps prevent issues and ensures resident safety.

For electrical system maintenance, test GFCI outlets monthly, especially in kitchens and bathrooms. Check exterior lighting and photo cells to ensure they work properly, as malfunctioning lights can create safety hazards. Label all electrical panels to easily identify circuits and inspect for corrosion or rust. Regular maintenance helps prevent issues and ensures resident safety.

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Mark Sharp

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When I am performing preventative maintenance, or I'm PMing my electrical systems, I'm going to test my GFI outlets in the apartments or your GFCI APAR outlets in your apartments. These are typically located in wet areas, kitchens, bathrooms. Some of your apartment communities might not have them. They should, but if you were built before a certain date, you wouldn't.

But if you have gcis, you should be inspecting those regularly to make sure they function. Check your exterior lighting, common lighting, breezeway lights. Make sure your photo cells are working. It's a hazard. If your photo cells do not come on when it gets dark or the timer, maybe you lost power at some point on your property and the timer is off, and so it should be coming on two hours earlier, but instead of coming on at 8:00 PM it's not coming on until 10:00 PM because you lost power a week.

Prior and your timer didn't ha, didn't move with the time, and so now it's coming on later than it should. That is a hazard for your residents. If your breezeways are pitch black, it's a safety concern, so make sure your exterior lights are good to go. Label electrical panels. This is a big one. This is a big one.

It will save you time down the run down the road. If you make sure your breaker boxes, your electrical panels out, interior and exterior are labeled. You wanna know which main cuts off which apartment label it. It's the only way you're gonna know, otherwise you're guessing. Have you ever gone to an electrical panel and flipped a breaker thinking it was the right one, but it ended up being a completely different apartment?

I have. Yeah, it's not fun. When the resident calls into the office and says they were working on something and everything in their apartment just shut off. So verify that, and then also inspect those breaker panels for corrosion. Make sure you don't have any rusted screws. Make sure it's nice and tight.

Make sure the doors shut. That's the best way to PM your electrical systems. Test. Test your gcis monthly. Perform your exterior lighting checks. Label electrical panels and then do visual inspections for corrosion.