Run building maintenance like an operation, not a reaction — systems, schedules, and the skills behind every work order.
What you’ll learn
- Build a preventive maintenance calendar for any residential or small commercial building
- Handle core systems: plumbing, electrical, HVAC filters/belts, roofing, life safety
- Triage and prioritize work orders by urgency and liability
- Run make-ready/turnover processes on schedule and budget
- Document work and manage vendors when a job exceeds in-house scope
Lessons
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 1: The maintenance operation: work orders, priorities, and PM
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 2: Plumbing maintenance and first response
Covers the fixtures and failures behind most tickets: toilet rebuilds, faucet cartridges, drain clearing methods and limits (when the auger stops and the plumber starts), water heater maintenance and anode awareness, shut-off valve mapping (the single highest-value prep task in any building), and leak response — find it, stop it, dry it, document it for […]
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 3: Electrical maintenance within safe limits
What maintenance staff can and should do — and the bright line where licensed electricians take over. Covers breaker panel literacy and labeling, GFCI/AFCI testing and replacement, fixture and ballast/driver swaps, receptacle and switch replacement standards, and the warning signs that mean stop (warm panels, aluminum wiring, repeated trips). Lockout and verification practice throughout. Lock […]
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 4: HVAC, appliances, and the mechanical room
Maintenance-level HVAC: filter programs that actually get done, condensate line service, thermostat setup, coil cleaning, and the readings to log before calling an HVAC contractor (so the call is cheaper and faster). Appliance section covers the high-failure items in rentals — igniters, heating elements, door seals, disposal resets — and the repair-vs-replace math by appliance […]
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 5: Building envelope and life safety
Covers roof and gutter inspection routines, caulking/sealing programs, door and window hardware, and slip/trip exterior walks. Then life safety — the liability core: smoke/CO detector programs with documentation, extinguisher checks, emergency lighting tests, dryer vent cleaning, and the inspection log format that protects the owner when something goes wrong. Envelope and exterior walkA repeatable route […]
Building Maintenance Course — Lesson 6: Turnovers, vendors, and documentation
The make-ready process as a checklist-driven sprint: move-out inspection, scope build, trade sequencing (paint before floors, clean last), and quality walk. Vendor management covers getting comparable bids, insurance certificates, and holding scope. Ends with documentation discipline — photos, costs, and history per unit — that turns maintenance data into budget forecasts. Certificate of Completion included. […]