Seasonal Maintenance Schedule, All Houses

SEASONAL MAINTENANCE — ALL HOUSES SCH/2025/03

Issued 11 March 2025. Supersedes SCH/2024/03.

STANDING RULES

1. Nobody works at height alone. Orchard House has this in writing;

the others are asked to adopt it and seven have.

2. Power tools are used only when a second person is in the building.

3. Roofs, flues, and electrical work are trade work. Residents do not

go on the Cedar House north valley in any circumstances.

4. A deferral is written in the fabric book as a deferral, with the

quotation and the date. A deferral not written down becomes a

forgetting, and a forgetting becomes a roof.

THE COLD QUARTER

Boiler and flue service (trade) — before the season, not during it.

Gritting of sloped approaches — fabric rota, first thing.

Pipe lagging and tank checks — all northern houses.

Snow bars and valley inspection, Cedar House — trade, November.

THE THAW

Gutters and downpipes — two people, never one.

Floor peg readings, North House — custodian, March.

Adobe render, Lantern House — house and town, April, every third year.

Tank clean, South House — spring. Four days' water held by policy.

THE WORKING SUMMER

Paint and pointing — Shore House on a four-year cycle.

Wasp nests, Orchard House eaves — trade, August, before pressing day.

Press strip and certification — annual; the juice is sold at the gate.

Dust extraction filters, Cedar House — quarterly.

CLOSING THE YEAR

Culverts, Fell House track — by hand, two culverts, every autumn.

Fire notice review and chair count — every house.

Cistern and gutters, Lantern House — before the monsoon.

Fabric book against the ten-year plan — treasurer and custodian.

OUTSTANDING AT ISSUE

South House, wash-house roof. NZ$8,400. Deferred 2020, 2021, 2022,

2023, 2024. Carried.

River House, annexe roof. Ten-year plan, 2029.

North House, woodshed boiler. Replacement recommended 2021 and 2024.

Deferred both times, in writing, by the treasurer.

Fell House, oven. Not a fabric item. Included at the kitchen's request.