Domestic Cleaner Brief and House Instructions
The jobs in each room and whether they are done every visit or in turn.
Resources
The pages of a home binder that actually get used: who to call, what renews when, who does what, and where everything is.
A household runs on facts nobody has written down until the one person who knows them is away. These sheets are that binder: the accounts, the renewals, the routines and the contacts, on pages plain enough to hand to a house-sitter or a grandparent. They keep no passwords in full, suggest no rules for your children and set no budget; what they hold is yours.
23 resources · every one as a printable and fillable PDF in A4 and US Letter, and online · 9 with an Excel workbook.
The jobs in each room and whether they are done every visit or in turn.
Every broken item waiting for a decision, and what is wrong with it.
What each section of the binder holds, in a line.
Which policies and contracts the household holds, and with whom.
Every account the household holds, with the service and the login name.
Which supplier provides what, with the account number to quote.
Who has a birthday or anniversary and when, in date order.
Names and full postal addresses, written large enough to read.
Where each person is on each day, in their own column.
What has to happen before the door, in an order the child can follow.
The things your family has agreed to notice, one per row.
Where the keys, the stopcock, the fuse box and the spare bulbs are.
The kitchen, water and heating dealt with so nothing is left running or rotting.
The network name, router location and the provider's support line, in one place.
What memberships and cards exist, and whose they are.
Ideas as they come up, months before the date, against the person and the occasion.
What is waiting to go back, from which shop, and the receipt amount.
What has been lent out, to whom, and when it went.
Which books are out, who borrowed them and from where.
Each vehicle, its registration and who mainly drives it.
Every regular job in the house, grouped by area.
Birthdays, anniversaries and occasions, month by month.
Every sheet, binder, game and puzzle on Upkeep Papers is free to download, with no email and no account. Making them is not free: each one takes days of research, design and checking, and the site costs money to run. If something here saved you time, you can buy us a coffee. It is entirely optional: nothing is locked, and nothing changes if you don’t.
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