Upkeep Papers

Category

Cleaning and routines

Cleaning schedules, rotas, deep-clean checklists and the dated records a cleaning routine is supposed to leave behind.

Most free cleaning printables are somebody else's week, printed as though every home were the same shape. These are blank on purpose: the grid is ours, the routine is yours, and the ones that record a reading or a handover are built to be signed and kept.

Weekly Cleaning Schedule

Hold your own weekly routine on one page and see what has actually been done. The jobs are yours to write in; the grid is the part worth printing.

CR-01 1 page

Room-by-Room Deep Clean Checklist

Work through the deep-clean backlog one room at a time, and know which jobs you have actually done. Nobody remembers the extractor filter without a list.

CR-02 2 pages

End of Tenancy Cleaning Checklist

Agree what has been cleaned and what has not, in writing, before the keys and the deposit change hands. Both parties sign the same piece of paper.

CR-03 2 pages

Commercial Cleaning Checklist

Give a contract cleaning round a paper trail, so what was done and by whom is a signed line rather than an argument at the end of the month.

CR-04 1 page

Household Chore Rota

Split the jobs between everyone in the house before the month starts, so the question of whose turn it is has already been answered in writing.

CR-05 1 page

Fridge and Freezer Temperature Log

Show that an appliance was checked, twice a day, by someone who wrote down what they saw. A run of readings shows drift long before one reading shows a failure.

CR-06 1 page

Laundry and Linen Record

Track linen out to the laundry and back again, so a missing set is noticed the week it goes missing rather than the season it runs out.

CR-07 1 page

Bin and Recycling Collection Chart

Get a year of collection days onto one page, so the right bin goes out on the right night. Nobody should have to check a website in the dark in a dressing gown.

CR-08 1 page

House Sitter Instruction Sheet

Answer the sitter's questions before they are asked, on paper, while you are still in the house and can walk them round to the stopcock.

CR-09 2 pages

Elsewhere in the library

Other categories

Property records

The paperwork that covers the whole building — service history, registers, warranties and the seasonal rounds.

10 sheets

Home systems

Heating, hot water, ventilation, drainage and water supply — the fixed systems that need servicing on a schedule.

13 sheets

Safety checks

Alarm tests, extinguisher checks and the records that prove they happened.

2 sheets

Outdoor machines

Mowers, saws, generators, washers, compressors and tractors — hour-based servicing and the part numbers you can never find.

8 sheets

Vehicles

Cars, motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and boats — service history, schedules and pre-use inspections.

8 sheets

Water and pools

Pools, hot tubs and private water supplies — chemistry logs and test records.

2 sheets

Rental property

Maintenance logs, periodic inspections and changeover checklists for let property.

3 sheets

Pets and animals

Vaccination and health records, sitter instructions and the emergency details somebody else would need if you were not there.

9 sheets

Trailers and marine

Trailers, horseboxes, caravans and boats — annual service records, pre-use inspections and the towing figures you should never be guessing at.

9 sheets

Workshop and tools

Inventories, service logs and the working paperwork a small workshop, a trade or a van actually runs on.

10 sheets

Moving and buying

The paperwork of changing address — moving, viewing, snagging, renovating and switching the supplies over.

9 sheets

Garden and growing

Sowing plans, plot layouts, greenhouse logs, compost records and fruit tree histories — blank wherever the answer depends on where you garden.

5 sheets