What is the advantage of preventive maintenance over repairing items as needed?
Studies have shown that preventive maintenance is many times more cost effective than reactive maintenance after something has failed. Not only do you greatly reduce the likelihood of a catastrophic failure causing major damage to your home and possible harm to a loved one, but everything is kept working as it should and trouble free for as long as possible. We truly believe that the Home Care preventive maintenance program lowers the total cost of home ownership. Identifying, and dealing with, a problem when it is small and simple to correct provides tremendous dividends compared to the alternative of dealing with a much larger expense once systems and components have completely failed. One goal of the Home Care Program is to push off ‘repair and replacement’ as long as possible, which in turn lowers the overall cost of home ownership for our customers. From the Jones Lang LaSalle study Determining the Economic Value of Preventive Maintenance: “The results of the analysis were overwhe
