Your home is one of your most valuable assets. Yet, a lot of home-owners neglect doing even simple maintenance to their home. Many of these maintenance issues only take a minute or two to perform. Instead of neglecting your home in this way, you should take the time to carry out minor maintenance tasks that help to keep your home in good shape.

Change Your Air Filter

When it comes to doing simple maintenance on your home, changing your air filter on a regular basis is key to improving the air quality in your home. Plus, it only takes a minute or so to stay on top of this easy maintenance issue. This is especially important if you live in a home with one or more pets.

Change Your Water Filter Cartridge

Whether you have a water filter that sits under the sink or directly on the faucet, it is likely the case that you need to replace the filter cartridge a few times each year for ensuring the quality of your water. In many cases this takes only a minute to do. Keeping up with this maintenance issue helps to ensure that harmful chemicals and even viral agents are not making it into your drinking water.

Your Smoke Detector

It is a good idea to change the batteries on your smoke detector as recommended by the manufacturer. This simple routine maintenance issue is both quick and easy to perform. Additionally, it helps to keep your family safe in the event there is a fire in your home.

Inspect Your Roof

Every few months, it is a good idea to pull the ladder out of the garage and take a closer look at the condition of your roof or call up your local roofing company to come inspect it for you. If you notice significant damage to the structure of your roof, then it may be time to do something about it. For example, getting a metal roof replacement could help your home withstand the elements far better than with a traditional shingle style roof, depending on what kind of weather is typical in your area.

Cleaning Your Gutters

Once every couple of weeks, you should stay on top of the gutters of your home. By identifying and removing debris from your gutters, you will make this maintenance issue an easy to execute task on your to do list. It only takes a minute to inspect your gutters for any problems requiring your immediate attention.

The ability to keep your home in good shape, for the long term, depends on doing regular maintenance on your home. Every home owner should be willing to do simple maintenance tasks that helps to ensure that your home remains a safe, livable space to occupy. From changing filters to doing basic inspections, you will be keeping on top of maintenance issues that only require a minute here or a minute there to perform.