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A free printable home ventilation checklist: trickle vents, windows, extractor fans, door gaps and air bricks checked room by room, with faults and who was told.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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Check that the vents, fans and air bricks the house already has are open and working. Closed trickle vents, dead fans and buried air bricks are easy to miss, and this puts each one on paper with who was told.
Tenants, homeowners and landlords dealing with condensation or mould, and anyone doing a seasonal check of a house's vents and fans.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Room by room: trickle vents open, windows that open, extractor fans that run, pull air and run on, door gaps and furniture off cold walls. Then the vents outside, and every fault with who was told.
Write-on lines: Property · Date · Checked by · Landlord or agent
Table, 11 rows: Room · Vents · Window · Fan · Pulls · Runs on · Door gap · Furniture · Mould · Fault and action
Also printed: Kitchen · Bathroom · En-suite · Toilet · Utility room · Bedroom 1 · Bedroom 2 · Bedroom 3 · Living room · Hall and landing
Write-on lines: Faults reported to · Date reported · Date fixed
No. It only shows whether a fan is moving air at all, which is enough to find one that is dead, blocked or just making noise. Measuring how much air a fan moves needs an instrument and the figure the fan was designed for, which is a job for an electrician or a ventilation engineer.
Because what a room needs depends on the building, when it was built and the rules where you are. The sheet records whether what is fitted is open and working; if you think something is missing, ask the landlord, a builder or the local council.
Keep each humidifier's tank emptied, dried and cleaned the way its manual says. Water left standing in a tank, and scale on its parts, are what the makers' cleaning instructions are there to prevent.
Stop measuring a clogged filter in a dark loft. Write the size down the first time, then reorder without taking the old one out.
Get ahead of the cold, so a frost or a storm does not turn into a burst pipe or a heating failure on the coldest night of the year.
Record the date something was reported as well as the date it was fixed, which is the pair of dates that actually matters.
Record a property visit properly, with space for photograph references and both signatures, so the visit is evidenced.
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