Any house is made up of a number of different components which provide the essential services for the house to function. In a given house you would expect to find:

Electrical service
Heating / Cooling systems
Water supply and waste management systems

Many homes often also have an alarm system to and in a few cases even access control systems. In a geek home you must of course add network infrastructure to this list.

Together these systems work to provide all of the services that you have come to expect in a modern home.

Home Maintenance

Figuring out what maintenance tasks you should be doing on an ongoing basis to look after your home can be a pain. One of the best technology-based solutions we've tripped across is the Home Manager program offered by Sears.

Manage My Home is a website with quite a lot of tips and "how-to" information related to home renovation. Their Q&A section is a bit Sears appliance heavy, but useful if your appliances are Kenmore brand or something that Sears sells. My favourite part is the maintenance plans from Home Manager. If you sign up, you can enter information about your house which tailors the tasks Home Manager suggests you should do. What we particularly like about the application is not just the fact that it reminds you when to deal with various tasks, but the email notification is well put together, explaining the logic behind the suggested maintenance as well as how to do it (pictures etc).

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