Preventative Maintenance Cost Implications Presented to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation December 5, 2002

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Effective Home Maintenance Training
Facilitators Vince Genereaux / Al Lafond

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Effective Home MaintenanceFormat

• What is Home Maintenance ?
• Why Do We Need Maintenance Policy?
• How do we deliver Home Maintenance Training?
• What is your experience?

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What is Home Maintenance?

• Routine Maintenance - On-going
• Preventative Maintenance
• Deferred Maintenance
• Extraordinary Maintenance - Reactive

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Routine Maintenance On-going

• Daily Day-to-day upkeep of home
• Weekly lint traps, maintain yards etc.
• Monthly Vacuum fridge coils etc.
• Seasonal Batteries in smoke alarms
• How homeowner can identify problems and relay
  back to Band.

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Preventative Maintenance?

• Preventative maintenance plays a crucial role in
  the life expectancy of any home.
• If certain items within your home are regularly
  checked and maintained, the chances would be
  greatly reduced that anything could have time to
  develop into a major problem, costly repair.
  I.e. Water damage, propane gelling etc.
• Home maintenance awareness training.
• Better building practices (Mat. Lab.) This
  includes new and innovative products.

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Deferred Maintenance

• Is a type of maintenance repairs necessary when
  something wears out or gets broken.
• Maintenance that is put off for one reason or
  another. Usually costs more because more damage
  has occurred I.e.
• Roof repairs
• Bathroom Repairs - caulking fixtures.
• No Training or awareness

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Extraordinary Maintenance Reactive

• Reactive maintenance is repairing items caused by
  vandalism, acts of nature or poor workmanship
• Broken windows
• Kicked-in doors
• Holes in walls
• Lifting shingles
• Shifting walls
• Plumbing leaks

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Why Do We Need Maintenance Policy?

• Population Boom!
• Shrinking Funds!
• Band vs. Homeowner Responsibilities.
• Maximize Limited Housing Dollars.
• Prolong units useful life.
• Healthier Safer Housing

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Band vs. Homeowner Responsibilities.

• Band usually responsible for
• Power to home and fixtures (not utility bills)
• Infrastructure Water, Sewer Roads
• Normal maint. not required due to neglect for
  furnace maintenance, roofs, smoke detectors,
  painting interior walls Floors
• Explaining where maintenance funding comes from
  how it is used.
• Maintenance Policy Development.

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Homeowner Responsibilities

• Utility bills as per lease agreements
• Interior exterior doors
• Windows, glass frames
• Damage to walls or ceiling due to abuse
• Normal maintenance of exterior cladding
• Lawn fence maintenance
• Getting involved in Maintenance Policy

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What is the lifetime cost of new Band house?

• Equity 25,000.00
• Loans and Interest on loans 100,000.00
• Administration / Professional 15,000.00
• Replacement Reserve 30,000.00
• General Maintenance 27,000.00
• Insurance 15,000.00
• Total cost 25 years 212,000.00

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Replacement Reserve
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Components of Housing Cost
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What Can Go Wrong?

• 1 additional furnace 1,400.00
• 9 additional windows 4,050.00
• 2 Additional entrance doors 650.00
• 1 Fire damaged siding 3,250.00
• 1 additional interior paint job 1,200.00
• 1 Medium mold remediation 5,000.00
• 1 Set of additional appliances 2,200.00
• 1 Set of additional Cupboards 4,500.00
• 1 additional floor covering 2,750.00
• Lost Equity
  25,000.00

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Components of Housing CostNeglected
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What Cost Do We Want?

• Equity 25,000.00
• Loans and Interest on loans 100,000.00
• Administration / Professional 15,000.00
• Replacement Reserve 30,000.00
• General Maintenance 27,000.00
• Insurance 15,000.00
• Total cost 25 years 212,000.00
• Add Lost Equity 25,000.00
• 237,000.00

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How do we deliver Home Maintenance Training?

• Utilize FNNBOA Inspectors / Trainers Front Line
  Knowledge and experience. Include Fire Safety.
• Elders, Interpreters may be needed.
• Prior to tenant selection. Point System
• Band housing admin. service staff in
  attendance.
• On-Site tours at newer unit. (shut-offs,
  locations etc.)
• Hands-on props HRVs, Vanities w/plumbing tools
  etc.
• During final inspection.
• Door prizes, maintenance tools, refreshments
• Manuals, Videos, Pictures of consequential damage.

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Questions??

• Reference Links
• www.fnnboa.ca
• http/www.joneakes.com
• vgenereaux_at_pagc.sk.ca
• CMHC Homeowners Manual