Preventative Maintenance

Preventative Maintenance: General Tips

Name: Preventative Maintenance: General Tips
Uploaded: 2025-04-10T17:17:11Z
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: Preventative maintenance (PM) is essential for extending the life of property systems. Key tips include: creating and sticking to a PM schedule, using digital tracking tools like AppWork, educating residents on basic maintenance tasks, and standardizing checklists for each asset type. These steps ensure consistency, save time, and help maintain equipment and systems effectively.

Preventative maintenance (PM) is essential for extending the life of property systems. Key tips include: creating and sticking to a PM schedule, using digital tracking tools like AppWork, educating residents on basic maintenance tasks, and standardizing checklists for each asset type. These steps ensure consistency, save time, and help maintain equipment and systems effectively.

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Hey everyone. Let's talk about preventative maintenance and what it means and what it can do for the life of your property and for your positions as maintenance professionals. So some general tips across all of your equipment and your systems Thing, number one, and this is the hardest thing to do, is to create a schedule and stick to it.

We all know life as a maintenance is unpredictable. You have emergencies, you have things pop up, you have make readies move-ins, move out, inspections, evictions, you name it. There are a number of things that can take you off of a schedule and prevent you from getting back onto it. But when it comes to PMs, this needs to be, or preventative maintenance just.

Short form. I'm saying pm. Hopefully that's preventative maintenance for PMs. This is something you need to stick to a schedule. If it's scheduled, you do it. Everything else can wait. Okay. General tips across all of your equipment, all your systems. Create a PM schedule used calendar-based systems, whether that's monthly, quarterly, annually.

If you have, if you're doing renovations, you have new appliances, stick to the manufacturer recommendations. If it says to clean refrigerator condensing coils every quarter, then do it. You have to keep the warranty on that equipment create. Schedule and stick to it. Digital tracking. You can use maintenance software like app work, AppFolio, Yardi, Buildium to track work orders, recurring tasks, and equipment lifecycle.

You can also give some resident education, give residents simple maintenance tips like how to change their HVAC filter. How to unclog the garbage disposal, how to replace the batteries in their thermostat or their electronic door locks. They will appreciate it and it will save you time later. And then standardize your checklists.

Create a PM checklist per asset type if you have a lot of different assets that you are in con charge of or in con charge. Did I just say that in control of create? Once, one checklist per asset type. This ensures that your consistency is across the board no matter who does the work. If you have a checklist for your mid rises, here you go.

If you have a checklist for garden style, here you go. If you have a checklist for commercial, here you go. But that way, no matter who goes, it's all the same. So general tips across all equipment and system, all equipment and systems. Create a pm. Schedule digital tracking, resident education, and standardize your checklists.