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Seasonal Maintenance Advice

5 entries filed under seasonal maintenance advice.

August Heat and the Roof Air Gasket Nobody ChecksTwo ceiling leaks that look identical: rain past a crushed gasket, and condensate overflowing a blocked drain pan. Telling them apart takes about ten minutes.The Storage Lot Walkaround That Takes Twenty MinutesA unit in a lot gets looked at three times a year. Twenty minutes a month catches rodents, tire date codes and the scrape somebody left last Tuesday.The Santa Ana Week That Took Nine AwningsNine awnings in five days, and only two of them were fabric jobs. What wind actually breaks on an awning assembly, in the order it costs money.A Bulb Seal That Set Flat Over a Storage SeasonSeven months parked with the room out left a bulb seal compressed to a third of its height, and it never came back. What a storage season does to rubber.The First Rain of the Season Finds Every Open SeamSix dry months open seams that no water is around to reveal. The October walkaround that finds them, in the order the seams actually fail.