Home Maintenance

[DavidLandes]

Home Maintenance

Description

The objective of this app is to keep historical records of when maintenance tasks were completed on equipment. It also keeps records of parts purchased to complete the task. It also helps to manage future/upcoming tasks with reminders.

Features

• Add/Remove/Edit equipment.
• Add/Remove/Edit maintenance tasks for each equipment
  • Record mileage or hours for vehicles
  • Notes section
    • Document required tools
    • Document quirks about the particular process that can be easy to forget
• Add/Remove/Edit parts related to specific equipment

Structure

classDiagram
Equipment --|> Part
Equipment --|> Task
Equipment: Task List
Equipment: Part List

Part: Name
Part: Vendor
Part: Price
Part: Notes

Task: Name
Task: Completed Date
Task: Linked Parts
Task: Frequency
Task: Required Tools
Task: Notes

Equipment

• Cars/Trucks
• Lawn Mower
• Heat Pump
• Furnace
• Water Softener

Maybe?

• Chiminey/Fireplace
• Gutters
• Dryer Vent
• Garbage Disposal

Maintenance Tasks

• Cars/Trucks
  • Oil Change
  • Tire Rotation
  • Light Replacement
  • Serpentine Belt
  • Car Wash
  • Windshield Wiper Replacement
• Lawn Mower
  • Oil Change
  • Belt Replacement
  • Blade Sharpening
  • Fuel Filter Replacement
  • Pully Replacement
  • Grease Pullies
• Heat Pump
  • Clean Radiator
• Furnace
  • Replace Filter
• Water Softener
  • Refill Softener Salt
  • Refill Cleaning Resin
• Dryer Vent
  • Clean Lint
• File Storage
  • Perform backup
• Password manager
  • Rotate passwords
• Home
  • Deep clean
    • It'll depend on the family, but this would be a year or quarterly kind of thing
  • Inventory audit
    • If I had an inventory app, I would want to do an annual or bi-annual check of everything in it to see what we can throw out
• Crawlspace
  • Basic check
    • I should probably do this at least quarterly, just to check for leaks, rust, etc.
• Yard
  • Mow
  • Weed eat
  • Mulch

[Pertempto]

I really like this idea! I think it's a good one to start with, since we could both put it into use right away.

[Pertempto]

I'm just trying to picture what the UI might look like. What am I missing?

Equipment List View

• List the user's equipment
• Allow the user to add new equipment
• Allow the user to archive equipment they no longer own

Equipment Profile View

• List the parts for a specific piece of equipment
• Allow the user to add new parts for the equipment

Part Profile View

• Allow the user to add notes about the part
  • For example, it would be useful if I could document what size of wrench I need to use for loosening my oil drain plug
• Allow the user to view a history of maintenance records
  • Each record should have an associated date, optional mileage count, optional hours count, and optional note
• Allow the user to easily configure future maintenance alerts

[Pertempto]

Would this sort of app need to have syncing features? Really it might just be easiest to store the data in a single file, like a Google Sheet or local XLSX file. That would also allow the user to easily access their maintenance records and do whatever processing they want with those.

[DavidLandes]

Would this sort of app need to have syncing features? Really it might just be easiest to store the data in a single file, like a Google Sheet or local XLSX file. That would also allow the user to easily access their maintenance records and do whatever processing they want with those.

This may be a cool feature in the future.

[DavidLandes]

@Pertempto Feel free to add ideas to the Equipment & Maintenance Tasks sections in the description! This will give me a better idea of what things are more useful to you!

I need to think of a better term than "Equipment". This doesn't really make sense with some of the options like "Dryer Vent" or "Gutters"

[Pertempto]

Feel free to add ideas to the Equipment & Maintenance Tasks sections in the description! This will give me a better idea of what things are more useful to you!

Will do!

I need to think of a better term than "Equipment". This doesn't really make sense with some of the options like "Dryer Vent" or "Gutters"

Yeah, I get what you mean. It does seem to be a pretty intuitive term, so I wouldn't scrap it until we for sure have something better.

[Pertempto]

Could there be some sort of hierarchy?

So "dryer vent" would be a piece of sub-equipment under the equipment of "dryer"

"gutters" would be a piece of sub-equipment under the equipment of "roof", which itself could be a sub-equipment of "house"

This sounds complicated, but I think really it could be very simple to implement. Just add an optional parentId field in the equipment table

[Pertempto]

Possible alternative terms for "equipment"

• Asset

Possible alternative terms for "sub-equipment"

• Component

[Pertempto]

I'm thinking that each piece of "sub-equipment" would be a full "equipment" in it's own right, it could just be a very useful thing for keeping organized.

In your diagram, I'm thinking really your "equipment" and "part" models could be combined

[Pertempto]

I added a few more off-the-wall ideas to your description. I'll add more as I think of them.

[Pertempto]

Is the goal of this app to just provide history?

Reminders of future maintenance would make it MUCH more valuable to me.

Even if for the first iteration it was something super simple.

• It wouldn't need to send me a reminder, a calendar event, or anything fancy.
• Just have a screen called "Upcoming Maintenance" that lists all the tasks in order of how soon the next time they should be completed.
  • Then I could check this screen once a week or so to keep up-to-date on what I should be focusing on. It would be SOOOOOOOO useful!
  • If this screen isn't something that really interests you, I would be totally interested in contributing it myself 😆

[Pertempto]

This one would be so valuable to me that I'd be very interested in helping out with implementing it. I think we should go ahead with creating a repo for it, I think it's a good one to start with.

That way we can have separate issues for different areas of discussion, instead of filling this stream up 😅

[Pertempto]

I would recommend calling this app "Home Maintenance"

It would lead to a consistent "Home ____" naming scheme across many of our apps

[DavidLandes]

This one would be so valuable to me that I'd be very interested in helping out with implementing it. I think we should go ahead with creating a repo for it, I think it's a good one to start with.

That way we can have separate issues for different areas of discussion, instead of filling this stream up 😅

https://github.com/el-apps/Home-Maintenance

[DavidLandes]

I'll push an initial commit sooner or later. For now we can create issues instead of adding comments!😄