Plain City, Ohio
Home maintenance in Plain City, new builds and old village houses alike.
Plain City is two kinds of housing. Jerome Village and the subdivisions off Route 161 are some of the newest homes I visit. The village core along Main and Chillicothe Streets has houses more than a century old. The checklist is the same. What I find is not.
What I see in Plain City homes
Every house is different, but the same few things come up again and again in Plain City.
- New construction with settling to watch.In a house under ten years old, the equipment is new but the first few years turn up loose things: a sump discharge that never got buried properly, a water heater pan with no drain, alarms installed on the builder's schedule rather than the right one. The first visit catches the easy ones.
- Frost free faucets and builder grade covers.Newer homes almost always have frost free spigots. The hose comes off and a cover goes on, and that is most of the winterizing. The inside shutoff, if there is one, gets tagged.
- Older village houses with their original plumbing layout.A hundred year old house in the village may have a shutoff in a crawlspace or a cellar, and an outside faucet that needs the inside valve closed and drained. I find the valve, make sure it moves, and tag it.
- Wells and septic on the edges of town.Some properties outside the village are on a well and pressure tank. Those get a custom look before I quote, because a pressure tank and a well pump change what the visit should cover.
Serving Jerome Village, Darby Pointe, the village core, and the homes along Route 161, Route 42, and Industrial Parkway.
Two ways to start
Fall Freeze Prep visit
$129 flat, about 45 minutes
Outside faucets winterized, furnace filter changed, sump pump tested, smoke and CO alarms tested, main water shutoff found and tagged, and a short written note. Still booking through the end of November.
Request a freeze prep visitQuarterly membership
From $699 year one at the founding price, by bathroom count
Four visits a year: filters, leak sensor checks, sump and alarm checks, a seasonal task each visit, and a running Home Record of your house. Regular base membership is from $799 a year. Setup is from $199. Join within 30 days of a freeze prep visit and the $129 comes off year one.
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