A bright home kitchen with a stainless refrigerator, a built-in oven and a dishwasher in light cabinetry, a plain open notebook and a pen on the counter in the foreground, a technician seen from behind and shoulders down in the soft background closing the dishwasher door, calm afternoon light.

Annual Maintenance Plan

Scheduled upkeep visits for every appliance in the home, spread across the year, with one running service log.

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What the annual maintenance plan
involves.

An annual maintenance plan puts the jobs on this site on a calendar, so none of them depends on anyone remembering. Most homes need two visits a year, some one, some three, depending on how many appliances there are, how hard they work and how hard the water is. The plan is built around your house, not a checklist. A household with a garage freezer, a column pair and pets might have its coils done twice a year; a family that runs the laundry daily might have the exhaust run cleaned before winter and the washer's drain filter and hoses looked at in spring; a steam oven on hard water gets its descaling timed to the reminder. Each visit follows the log from the one before: what was cleaned, what was wearing, what the readings were. That history is the real value. It shows when a unit starts drifting, it tells you whether a repair or a replacement makes sense when the day comes, and it is useful to a buyer if you ever sell the house. The plan does not cover repairs; anything that fails between visits goes to the sister repair site for that appliance, with the log attached.

How the visit goes

What it usually costsLowest · Annual plan: scheduled visits across cold storage, cooking, dish care and laundry, with one running service log

Each planned visit costs no more than the separate jobs it covers, and usually less, because the technician already knows the house and its log. Parts found worn along the way are quoted before anything is fitted.

Answers 6 problemsAppliance Energy Use Creeping Up With Nothing Else Changed

Cold Storage Running Nonstop: Coil Dust, Clearance and Door Seals · Laundry Taking Two Cycles to Dry: The Lint Path Is Usually Why · White Scale on Appliance Water Parts: Steam Ovens, Ice Makers, Dish Care · Dishes Coming Out Gritty or Spotted: Filter, Spray Arms and Rinse Aid · Door Seal Not Holding: Gaps, Tears and Doors That Drift Open

Comes up most onCold storage

Cooking appliances · Dish care · Laundry

Annual maintenance plan,
step by step.

Keep one service log for the whole house, updated at every visit and yours to keep.

List every appliance in the house with its make, model and age, and agree which jobs each one needs and how often.

Spread those jobs across the year so each visit is a sensible length and falls before the season that needs it.

On each visit, clean, check and adjust according to the plan, and compare the readings with the visit before.

Flag anything that is wearing faster than expected, and hand anything that has failed to the sister repair site.

Keep one service log for the whole house, updated at every visit and yours to keep.

The problems
it answers.

6 of them, from appliance energy use creeping up with nothing else changed to door seal not holding: gaps, tears and doors that drift open.

All problems

A home kitchen counter in soft daylight with a small plain white plug-in energy meter with a blank dark screen plugged into a wall outlet beside a stainless refrigerator, the refrigerator's kick plate at the bottom visibly furred with dust.

Most common

Appliance Energy Use Creeping Up With Nothing Else Changed

6 causes, cheapest first

Before you call

Tell us this when you book

Every appliance you would like included, with makes and ages if known
How the house is used: family size, pets, cooking habits, laundry loads a week
Whether the water is hard or softened
The months that suit you for visits, and any times the kitchen is in heavy use

It also answers

Lowest,
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Service	Relative cost
Condenser coil and fan cleaned on a refrigerator, freezer, wine or beverage unit or ice maker, drain pan checked
Water filters replaced and flushed, inlet screens checked, descaling run on a steam oven, ice maker or dish care machine
Door seals tested, cleaned and reseated, hinges and cabinet level adjusted, a worn gasket replaced
Lint path cleaned from the screen housing through the transition duct and wall run to the outside hood
Drain filter cleared, door boot and detergent drawer cleaned, tub clean run, fill hoses checked and machine leveled
Filter and sump cleaned, spray arm nozzles cleared, door seals and dispensers checked, drain loop confirmed
Burner heads, ports and caps cleaned, igniters cleared, flames read, gas connector and shutoff leak-tested
Hood or microwave grease filters degreased or replaced, charcoal pads renewed, fan housing wiped, damper checked
Annual plan: scheduled visits across cold storage, cooking, dish care and laundry, with one running service log	lowest

Where it
comes up most.

Most bookings: Cold storage, Cooking appliances, Dish care, Laundry.

All home appliance types

Often the same visit

A tidy home kitchen with a tall built-in stainless column refrigerator and freezer pair set into light wood cabinetry, the toe grille at floor level removed and leaning against the cabinet, a technician seen only from the shoulders down kneeling on a gray mat and drawing a long soft coil brush out from under the unit, a small canister vacuum beside him, even daylight from a side window.

Cold storage

A home kitchen with a stainless pro-style gas range and a matching hood above it against a light tile backsplash, the grates lifted off and laid on a folded towel on the counter, a technician seen only from the shoulders down wiping a brass burner cap with a soft cloth, a clean baffle filter leaning beside the towel, all burners off, soft daylight.

Cooking appliances

An open built-in dishwasher in a bright home kitchen with white cabinets, both racks pulled out and empty, the cylindrical filter lifted out and held over a stainless sink by a technician seen only from the shoulders down, a lower spray arm resting on a folded towel on the counter, soft daylight.

Dish care

The makes
we see it on.

35 makes on this site, and the annual maintenance plan on any of them. Each mark opens that make's own page.

All 35 brands

Annual maintenance plan,
where we come out.

The home, the climate and the building all change how the annual maintenance plan goes. These notes are about that, metro by metro.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

A Tampa Bay annual maintenance plan is often split around hurricane season, with a spring visit for coils, hoses and the exhaust run before the storms and a fall visit to check what the summer's heat and outages left behind.

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

Orlando owners of vacation homes and rentals use an annual maintenance plan to keep appliances ready between guests, with visits set for slow weeks and a written log the property manager can read.

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

South Florida seasonal residents often set up an annual maintenance plan with one visit before they leave for summer and one on their return, so the appliances are cleaned, checked and restarted in step with the house.

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

A New York annual maintenance plan fits around building rules and a busy calendar, with one booked visit that covers every appliance in the apartment and a written log the owner can show the managing agent if asked.

HoustonTX · 36 areas

A Houston annual maintenance plan is usually built around summer: coils, gaskets and lint paths before the heat, and a follow-up after storm season for anything that took a surge or sat through an outage in the humidity.

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

A Chicagoland annual maintenance plan follows the seasons, with a fall visit for the dryer exhaust, burners and hood before winter and a spring visit for coils, seals and hoses before the humid summer.

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

A Los Angeles annual maintenance plan builds in descaling on a hard-water schedule, coil cleaning after windy or smoky stretches, and a yearly look at gas connectors and appliance restraints.

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Diego households with both a coastal and an inland home use an annual maintenance plan to track two climates, salt and mildew at the beach and heat and dust inland, with a separate log for each house.

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

A Bay Area annual maintenance plan often builds on the owner's own records, pairing each appliance's care chapter with the home's water supply and microclimate so the intervals fit the house rather than a generic calendar.

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Questions about
the annual maintenance plan.

How many visits a year does a maintenance plan include?

It depends on the house. Most homes need one or two, and a house with many appliances, pets or very hard water may need three. The schedule is set together at the start and can change as the log shows what each appliance needs.

Can appliances be added to the plan later?

Yes. When a new appliance arrives, it joins the plan at the next visit and gets its own page in the log. Fitting the new appliance itself is the job of our sister installation site.

Is the service log useful when a home is sold?

Buyers and inspectors often ask how appliances were cared for. A dated log of cleanings, filter changes and checks answers that question with facts rather than memory.

Back to your everyday

Ready to book the annual maintenance plan?

Have these to hand: every appliance you would like included, with makes and ages if known, how the house is used: family size, pets, cooking habits, laundry loads a week, whether the water is hard or softened, the months that suit you for visits, and any times the kitchen is in heavy use.

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Annual Maintenance Plan

What the annual maintenance plan involves.