Winterising Your House and Outbuildings
Frost damage is a drainage problem more than an insulation problem. What to drain, what to isolate, and how to leave a property that will not burst.
Home systems · HS-09
A free printable gutter cleaning log — when gutters were cleared, by whom, what was found, and what to look for while you are up there.
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.
Keep gutters on a schedule instead of clearing them after the damp appears, and record faults you spotted but did not fix.
Homeowners, landlords and property managers.
The layout is fixed at a size that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the A4 and Letter files are visually identical and print at full size on either. Rows are set at a height that an adult can actually write a date and a few words into with a pen — most printable tables are built in a word processor and never tested with one.
Frost damage is a drainage problem more than an insulation problem. What to drain, what to isolate, and how to leave a property that will not burst.
Spot roof problems early and, more usefully, see what has changed since the last inspection.
Work through the jobs that are easiest in warm, dry weather, while access is good and the heating is off.
We are building this library out steadily. Leave an address and we will send the new sheets as they are finished — nothing else, and no more than one email a week.
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