home maintenance
The Texas Home Maintenance Calendar
Month-by-month care for heat, clay soil and storm season
The problem it solves
You know maintenance matters but you have no idea what to do when.
A twelve-month maintenance system built for North Texas conditions: 100-degree summers, expansive clay soil, hard water, hail, and hard freezes.
Who it's for
Homeowners anywhere in the Dallas–Fort Worth region.
What you'll get out of it
- A specific task list for every month of the year
- Foundation watering guidance for expansive clay
- Pre-freeze and pre-storm checklists
- A record-keeping system that helps at resale
Table of contents
- 1. Why North Texas is different
- 2. January–March
- 3. April–June: storm season
- 4. July–September: the heat
- 5. October–December: the freeze
- 6. The annual big-ticket checks
- 7. Recording what you did
Sample pages
Why a generic calendar fails here
North Texas puts three unusual loads on a house: expansive clay that swells and shrinks with moisture, summer heat that runs air conditioning near capacity for months, and a freeze-thaw event most winters that finds every unprotected hose bib.
February and August are the two months that matter most. One protects the freeze; the other protects the cooling season.