Home maintenance reminders for Australian houses
Houses don’t send calendar invites. The smoke alarm doesn’t mention its battery is nine years old, and termites are famously discreet. These are the jobs Home Heads Up keeps track of for Australian homes.
The safety ones
- Smoke alarms. Test monthly, replace batteries yearly (for alarms that have them), replace the whole unit every 10 years.
- Termite inspections. A professional inspection at least once a year is the standard recommendation across most of Australia.
- Gutter cleaning. Before storm season, and before bushfire season where that applies.
The comfort-and-cost ones
- Air-conditioner filter and service. A clean filter every three months; a professional service before summer.
- Home insurance renewal. Review before it auto-renews rather than after.
- Pool maintenance, water filters, solar inspection, garden. Templates with sensible default cycles, all adjustable.
How templates work
Each reminder is a template you switch on: it comes with a recommended Australian schedule (monthly, six-monthly, yearly) and advance notice defaults. Enabling one takes seconds; you can change the cycle, the time of day, and how far ahead you’re warned. Nothing is compulsory and nothing repeats forever if you turn it off.
Why not just use a calendar?
You can — but recurring calendar events don’t know about your council, your weather or your address, they’re fiddly to set up well, and they treat “test the smoke alarm” with the same urgency as “dentist, 2:30”. A purpose-built reminder library, tuned for Australian homes, gets you covered in a minute or two.
Home Heads Up is a free app for Australian households — no ads, no account. It sends the reminders described here automatically.