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The Small Maintenance List That Prevents Big Repairs.
Most expensive home repairs start life as a ten dollar maintenance item nobody got to. This is the short list OnCall handles on maintenance visits, and why each one earns its place.
Grout and tile sealing
Grout is porous. Sealed, it sheds water and wipes clean. Unsealed, it absorbs water into the wall behind the tile, and the repair for that is a tile job rather than a sealing job.
Caulking, inside and out
Caulk is the flexible joint where two materials meet: tub and tile, trim and siding, window and wall. When it cracks, water follows the gap. Recaulking is one of the highest value hours a home can buy.
Filters
A clogged furnace filter makes the system work harder, costs money every month and shortens equipment life. Changing filters is the classic item that everyone means to do.
Smoke detector batteries
Detectors get ignored until they chirp at two in the morning. Swapping batteries on a schedule, and replacing detectors that have aged out entirely, is cheap insurance in the most literal sense.
Hose bib winterization
An outdoor faucet with a hose still attached in the first hard freeze is how a pipe bursts inside the wall. Disconnecting hoses and winterizing bibs takes minutes in October and saves a drywall, insulation and plumbing repair in January.
The point of a maintenance visit
None of these items justifies a service call alone, which is exactly why they accumulate. OnCall's handyman division is built for lists: send the whole list, get one itemized flat rate quote, and have everything handled in one visit. Got a list? Even better.
Frequently asked questions.
What does a maintenance visit cost?
Handyman work is priced flat by the service, starting at $249, and a list comes back itemized so you can take all of it or part of it.
How often should this list get done?
Most of it is seasonal: filters on the calendar, caulk and grout annually, winterization every fall.
Rather just have it handled?
Send the project over and OnCall takes it from there.
One Call. We Handle It All.