Home Maintenance Planner Spreadsheet Appliance Warranty Log Seasonal Checklist Home Inventory Improvement Cost Basis Excel Google Sheets

YOUR HOUSE IS TELLING YOU WHAT IT NEEDS. THIS IS WHERE YOU WRITE IT DOWN.

A house does not fail all at once. It fails in small, cheap, ignorable ways that become expensive on a schedule nobody wrote down. The failure mode is never negligence — it is memory. Nobody remembers how old the water heater is. Nobody can find the dishwasher's model number at the moment it floods. Nobody kept the kitchen-remodel receipts, and years later that costs real money at closing.

WHAT THE FILE SHOWS — from the shipped sample (the Marchetti house, a written persona, not a customer)
· 59 recurring maintenance tasks on the calendar: 7 overdue, 20 due soon, and a plan that annualizes to $3,432.60.
· The worst one named and dated: flush the water heater tank, 85 days late, with $559 of work sitting in the overdue column.
· 21 appliances and systems in the registry, 7 still in warranty, 3 expiring inside 90 days — the next is the dishwasher, in 43 days.
· 14 systems measured against published service-life ranges: a 12-year furnace, an 11-year water heater already past its typical life, a 3-year roof, 5 flagged in total.
· $41,850 of documented capital improvements across 13 logged projects — 3 of them capital, the largest a kitchen remodel at $24,500 — carrying a $312,000 purchase to a $353,850 adjusted cost basis, and moving the estimator's gain figure from $58,140 to $16,290.
· $3,180 of maintenance this year against a $3,980 rule-of-thumb benchmark — 0.799% of the home's value — with HVAC the top category at $846, and $13,160 over five years.
· 43 items cataloged for insurance at $96,400 replacement value against a contents limit of $87,000 — a shortfall of $9,400.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES — the six things a checklist cannot
· Calculated next-due dates. Put in when you last did something and the interval, and the file works out when it is next due, how many days that is, and whether it is overdue, done, due soon or scheduled. Nothing is a static tick box.
· An appliance and warranty registry with model and serial numbers and a real countdown to every warranty expiry — because the warranty runs out before the appliance does.
· Improvement cost-basis record-keeping: capital improvements separated from repairs, an adjusted cost basis, and an estimate that shows the difference the records make. This is record-keeping, not tax advice, and IRS Publication 523 is cited as further reading.
· Service lives shown as published ranges with the source named on screen, drawn from the InterNACHI life-expectancy chart and cross-checked against the NAHB study — so a system past its range reads past life instead of failing silently.
· A home inventory for insurance with replacement values and the gap against your own contents limit, plus the boring reference tab that saves an afternoon: paint codes, filter sizes, finishes and where the can is.
· Emergency shutoffs, documented and printable, before you need them at two in the morning.

WHAT THIS IS NOT
· It is not tax advice. The cost-basis tab is record-keeping. Whether a project counts as a capital improvement is a specific question under IRS rules — see IRS Publication 523, Selling Your Home, and speak to a tax professional. Keep your receipts.
· It is not an insurance valuation or an appraisal. The inventory is a personal record.
· It is not a home inspection, and it is not legal, insurance or financial advice.
· Service lives are published industry estimates, not guarantees. A well-maintained system can outlive the range; a neglected one will not reach it.
· It is not an app and it does not remind you. There is no notification, no login and no subscription. It is a spreadsheet you open, and it will still open in ten years.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 20 connected tabs
· Start Here — the big idea, five first steps, a live tab map and every disclaimer in one place.
· Home Profile — the Today's-date cell that drives every countdown, the house itself, and per-system age against a published service life.
· Maintenance Calendar — the engine: 59 pre-loaded tasks with next-due dates, days until, a status ladder and an overdue rank.
· Seasonal Checklists — four seasons with completion percentages, and N/A excluded from the denominator. Print-ready.
· Appliance & Warranty Registry — model and serial numbers, warranty expiry countdowns, age, remaining life and a replacement figure.
· Service History — every job with provider and cost, work-warranty end dates and lifetime spend by system.
· Contractor & Vendor Log — who you use, with jobs and total spent counted live off Service History.
· Filters & Consumables — the exact sizes, the interval, changes per year and what it costs you annually.
· Paint & Finish Reference — the boring tab that saves an afternoon: room, brand, color name and code, finish, where the can is.
· Home Inventory (Insurance) — what you own by room with replacement values, and the gap against your contents limit.
· Improvement Cost Basis — capital improvements against repairs, an adjusted cost basis, and a sale estimator with and without records.
· Project Planner — budget against actual, phases, percent complete and days to target.
· Budget & Spend — planned against actual by category, twelve monthly rows, and the rule-of-thumb benchmarks labeled as such.
· Utilities Tracker — twenty-four months of bills with year-over-year movement and your high and low months.
· Emergency Shutoffs & Docs — where the water, gas and power shut off and how, printable, portrait, for the panel door.
· Pest & Exterior — treatments and exterior cycles with next-due dates and spend.
· HVAC & Water — the two systems that cost the most, with specs, service dates and lifetime spend.
· Annual Cost Dashboard — nothing typed: twelve hero stats, a five-year trend, a ranked deferred-maintenance list and what is past service life.
· Sell-Ready Report — nothing typed: the house, the systems, the improvements and a generated statement paragraph. Print-ready.
· Reference & Tips — the date logic, how to add and roll, printing, a 34-row service-life table, the sources and the disclaimers.

WHO THIS IS FOR
The homeowner who has worked out that the drawer of manuals is not a system. New owners in their first fall, owners of a house old enough to need a plan, and anyone who has ever stood in front of an appliance trying to remember the year they bought it. It is also the closing gift that does not get thrown away.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
The category standard is a four-tab file and a printable seasonal checklist. This one is built to be kept: every date calculates, every system is measured against a published range with a source, every dollar lands in a category, and two of the tabs — the cost basis and the sell-ready report — only pay off years later, which is precisely why they so rarely get built. 59 maintenance tasks ship pre-loaded, so the first afternoon is filling in dates, not inventing a list.

WHAT YOU GET
· Home-Maintenance-Command-Center.xlsx — the Editorial default
· The same workbook in Colorful, Light and Dark, plus Home-Maintenance-Command-Center-3color.zip
· Quick-Start.pdf — five pages: what to fill in first, how every headline figure is calculated, how to add rows, how the seasonal reset works, printing, the disclaimers
· ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf — one click opens your own copy in Google Sheets
· README.txt and LICENSE.txt

HOW IT ARRIVES — instant download, four color themes, one file that opens in Microsoft Excel and in Google Sheets. Hosted-Sheets access is included: the link in your download opens Google's own Make a copy page and the copy lands in your Drive with every formula live. No add-ons, no macros, no subscription. Free lifetime updates.

STEP ONE IS FIVE MINUTES
Type today's date into the one cream cell at the top of Home Profile — or type =TODAY() and the whole file goes live and stays live. Fill in the house and your system install dates. Then work down the Maintenance Calendar putting in when you last did each job. If your first pass shows a page of red, that is normal, and it is the file working.

HONEST ENGINEERING
2,396 formulas · recalculated clean · 3678/3678 independent math checks · LibreOffice 4/4 themes clean, 79,424 cells scanned, 0 error cells · every screen in this listing is the real file. Nothing displayed in the workbook is hard-coded; the verifier re-derives every figure from the input cells alone.

PLEASE READ
The records shown in every image are demonstration data — the Marchetti house is a fictional persona, not a customer. The Improvement Cost Basis tab is record-keeping, not tax advice; see IRS Publication 523, Selling Your Home, as further reading and speak to a tax professional about your own situation. The Home Inventory is a personal record, not an insurance valuation. Typical service lives are industry estimates, not guarantees. This file is an organizational tool, not a home inspection, and not legal, insurance or financial advice.

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