Household Maintenance Calendar
A dated home maintenance schedule for your appliances and features, as a calendar file.
Try an example: Apartment, 12 months · House with garden, pool and car, 24 months
How it works
Tick the features of your home — heating, alarms, appliances, gutters, garden, pool, car — and get a dated maintenance plan for up to 24 months, grouped by month, with safety intervals backed by official guidance and a recurring-event calendar file to import.
- Tasks come from an editorial catalog of generic maintenance best practice; a task is included if it applies to every home, to your home type, or to a feature you ticked.
- Interval tasks (every N months): the first date is the start date for monthly tasks, and start date + (catalog position × 3 mod 28) days for longer intervals so that work is spread out; then every N months. A first date on the 29th–31st moves to the 28th of the following month so the calendar recurrence is valid in every month.
- Day-interval tasks (e.g. weekly pool checks) repeat every N days from the start date.
- Seasonal tasks fall on the 1st of their months (northern hemisphere months; +6 months in the southern hemisphere).
- Only dates from the start date to the day before start + N months are listed. The .ics file has one all-day recurring VEVENT per task (RRULE FREQ=MONTHLY/DAILY/YEARLY with UNTIL), CRLF line endings, folded lines and UIDs derived from the inputs.
- Safety intervals (smoke and CO alarm tests and batteries, chimney inspection, septic inspection, tyre pressure) follow the cited official guidance; all other intervals are editorial — your manufacturer’s manual takes precedence.
Generic reminders, not a substitute for your appliance manuals, local regulations or professional inspections. Do not climb on roofs; hire professionals for gas, electrical and roof work.
Sources
- Smoke alarms — maintenance tips (U.S. Fire Administration (FEMA)) retrieved 2026-10-12
- Smoke alarms (National Fire Protection Association) retrieved 2026-10-12
- CO Alarms (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) retrieved 2026-10-12
- How to Care for Your Septic System (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) retrieved 2026-10-12
- CSIA FAQ (quoting NFPA 211) (Chimney Safety Institute of America) retrieved 2026-10-12
- Tires — maintenance (U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) retrieved 2026-10-12
For scripts and AI agents
- JSON API:
POST https://householdmaintenancecalendar.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate(same calculation as this page) - Interface description: OpenAPI 3.1 · AI guide: llms.txt
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP):
https://householdmaintenancecalendar.usefulweb.site/mcp· tool namehousehold_maintenance_calendar
Example request
curl -s -X POST https://householdmaintenancecalendar.usefulweb.site/api/v1/calculate \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"homeType":"apartment","features":["smoke-detectors","co-detectors","gas-heating","dishwasher","washing-machine","fridge"],"hemisphere":"north","startDate":"2026-11-01","months":12}'Related tools
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