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A free printable appliance hose record: every washing machine, dishwasher and tap hose with its fitted and replace-by dates, each inspection and each replacement.
2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Find a bulging or cracked supply hose behind the washing machine before it splits. Each hose gets a fitted date and a replace-by date you choose, so an ageing one is changed on purpose rather than after a flood.
Homeowners, tenants and landlords with a washing machine, dishwasher, fridge water line or flexible tap connectors in the house.
2 pages, in this order:
Printed under the title: Every flexible water hose behind the washing machine, dishwasher, fridge and taps listed once with its fitted and replace-by dates, then each look behind the appliance and each hose replaced.
Your replacement date, not ours. No replacement interval is printed: hose makers, appliance makers and insurers each give their own. Choose yours, note where it came from, and write a replace-by date against every hose. Look again after a full wash or dishwasher cycle, when a slow drip from a joint is easiest to see.
Write-on lines: Property · Replace hoses every · Interval taken from
Table, 8 rows: No. · Appliance or tap · Hose type · Length · Fitted · Replace by · Isolating valve · Valve turns
Table, 13 rows: Date · Hose · Bulges · Cracks · Joints dry · Valve · Tray, sensor · Action · Initials
Table, 5 rows: Date · Hose · Why replaced · New hose fitted · Fitted by · Replace by
The sheet does not say, because hose makers, appliance makers and insurers give different answers, and braided and rubber hoses are not the same. Pick the interval you will work to, note where it came from at the top of the sheet, and write a replace-by date against each hose.
Because in a leak the valve is what stops the water, and one that has seized will not. Knowing where each valve is and whether it turns makes a burst hose a mop job rather than a flood. A valve that will not turn is worth replacing at the same time as the hose.
Hunt for leaks across the whole house in one sitting, starting at the water meter. Every toilet, tap and outside pipe gets a line, so a dripping cistern or a weeping relief pipe is found and fixed rather than paid for on the bill.
Find out which stop tap or isolating valve has seized now, not the night a pipe bursts. Each valve is listed once, and each gentle turn off and back on is written down with how it felt.
Collect the numbers you can never find when something breaks: model and serial numbers, install dates, and when the warranty runs out.
Make sure anyone in the household can turn off the water, gas or electricity quickly, including people who did not move in with the property.
Turn a vague intention to look after the house into a page you can tick off, so the jobs that only need doing once or twice a year actually get done.
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