Best Practices for Routine Maintenance
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| 1. | To maintain the common areas of the building and grounds to a satisfactory standard, develop a routine maintenance specification for all building cleaning and grounds upkeep tasks, frequencies, and standards. Related Links >> |
| 2. | To ensure staff know what their responsibilities are for routine maintenance, use the routine maintenance specification to assign staff responsibilities. Related Links >> |
| 3. | To ensure qualified contractors are retained and know what is required of them, use the appropriate parts of the routine maintenance specification to set up any contracts with contractors. Related Links >> |
| 4. | To ensure vacant units are prepared (repaired, cleaned, painted) to a satisfactory standard, develop a specification for preparing vacant units and use it to assign staff responsibilities and/or to set up contracts. Related Links >> |
| 5. | To ensure staff and contractors carry out routine maintenance and preparation of vacant units to the specified standard, regularly monitor the actual standard of routine maintenance of common areas of the building and grounds and of the preparation of vacant units. Related Links >> |
