Home Improvement 3 – Maintain your Home

 

                                         It is important to learn the art of maintenance.

Everything you own needs to be maintained. Your car, clothes, relationships, health, and of course, your home.

There are a lot of things in the home that require maintenance, yet we often forget. We adjust our air conditioner often, but forget to change the filter. We use the hot water in the shower, but we forget to flush the water heater yearly.

We forget what is right in front of us.

By consistent, disciplined maintenance we take responsibility for our life. Truly, there is not an area of your life where you can just stop working and rest on your past effort. You must keep going!

Don’t forget to maintain your life through worship, God’s Word, and prayer.

   

Welcome to Redemption Church! Who knew that you could do so much with a Tim Allen grunt. Make sure you are here next week to see if we could possibly come up with an even worse bumper video for this Home Improvement sermon series.

Over the past 2 weeks we have talked about Building & Fixing your home. Today we are going to talk about maintaining your home.

Maintain Your Home

It is important to learn the art of maintenance.

Everything you own needs to be maintained.

Your car needs gas, oil, even window wash fluid. Those tires need to be replaced as they age. Every car has a manual and included in that are the mileage at which you can expect the need to do maintenance on a particular part of your car.

Your clothes need to be washed, dried, folded or hung up. Every once in a while you may lose a button and need to sew it back on or send your nicer clothes to the dry cleaner.

Your house definitely needs maintenance. You need to take care of the yard. Cut the grass and shrubs so that they don’t over grow your house. You need to clean the floors and vacuum the carpet. Sometimes touch up paint is needed where someone banged or dinged a wall. The list of things to maintain can be overwhelming…

I did some searching on home maintenance and I have some bad news. Chances are that you do not maintain your home.

* Every year you are supposed to clean your chimney.

* Yearly you are supposed to flush your hot water heater and remove sediment to prolong its life and improve efficiency.

* Yearly you are supposed to check and clean your dryer vent exhaust. This is one of the major causes of home fires.

* Yearly you should clean out your gutters.

Anyone forget to do these things?

* Biannually it is suggested that you vacuum your refrigerator coils. It could save up to $100 a year on electricity bills.

* Bianually you are supposed to test the pressure relief valve of your water heater.

Twice a year you are supposed to do this stuff. Anyone forget?

* Quarterly you are supposed to test the garage door auto reverse feature. You set a 2×4 piece of wood on the ground in the spot the door lowers. You lower the door and when it hits the wood it should go back up.

* Quarterly you are supposed to check all your smoke & carbon dioxide detectors.

This maintenance could save a life. Surely you never forget to test these things every quarter…

* Monthly you are supposed to check your air filters and possibly replace them.

* Monthly you are supposed to clean your range hood filter. It’s that metal filter that helps suck the smoke out that your cooking puts out. It becomes covered in grease and they recommend using an auto parts degreaser and letting the filter sit in the degreaser.

* We all clean our kitchen sink disposal every month right?