Tasks
Building a home maintenance schedule from scratch means knowing what you don't know. The Casabeza task library covers 63 household systems and vehicles with 178 pre-built templates — so you start with a comprehensive schedule, not a blank page.
Ask most homeowners what maintenance their boiler needs and when, and you'll get a reasonable answer. Ask about the dryer vent duct, the GFCI outlets, the garage door springs, the sump pump, the water softener, and the smoke detector backup batteries — and the list starts to get uncomfortable. Not because the tasks are hard, but because they're invisible until something fails.
The standard advice is to build a maintenance schedule. The implied follow-up is: from what? Nobody ships a house with a maintenance manual. The knowledge is scattered across product manuals, forum threads, contractor recommendations, and the memory of the previous owner. Assembling it into a coherent schedule is itself a project most people never start.
Casabeza ships with that schedule already built.
The library contains 63 household systems and asset types across 11 categories, with 178 task templates covering routine maintenance, safety checks, seasonal preparation, and professional service reminders.
Kitchen appliances — refrigerator, dishwasher, oven and range, garbage disposal, range hood, microwave, kitchen faucet. The refrigerator alone carries tasks for condenser coil cleaning, door gasket inspection, water filter replacement, and drain pan maintenance — each with its own cadence and step-by-step instructions.
Bathroom systems — toilet, shower and bath, exhaust fan, water heater, sink and faucet.
HVAC — central air conditioning, furnace, ceiling fans, programmable thermostat, whole-house humidifier, attic fan. The furnace tasks include monthly filter replacement, annual tune-up scheduling, and blower cleaning — the kind of maintenance that extends equipment life but only gets done consistently when someone is reminding you.
Plumbing — main water shutoff valve, sump pump, water softener, filtration system, septic system.
Electrical — circuit breaker panel, smoke detectors, CO detectors, GFCI outlets, doorbell, EV charger.
Outdoor — gutters, lawn equipment, deck and patio, fence, driveway, exterior siding, irrigation system, pool and hot tub, outdoor grill, exterior spigots.
Laundry — washing machine, clothes dryer, and the dryer vent duct specifically — one of the most commonly neglected fire risks in a home, which gets its own entry in the library because treating it as an afterthought of the dryer is exactly the pattern that leads to duct blockages going unnoticed for years.
Garage — door opener and door mechanism separately.
Safety — fire extinguisher, first aid kit, home security system, radon test kit.
Vehicles — 13 types: passenger car, electric vehicle, motorcycle, bicycle, e-bike, small and large trailers, ATV, UTV, scooter and moped, golf cart, personal watercraft, snowmobile. Vehicles are often the most maintenance-neglected assets a household has, because they exist outside the home and outside the mental model of "home management." They're in here.
When you add an inventory item from the library — a dishwasher, a sump pump, a motorcycle — the tasks come with it. Not as suggestions. As live scheduled tasks with steps, cadences, and notifications already configured based on the template's recommendations.
The refrigerator's condenser coil cleaning fires every six months. The furnace filter replacement fires monthly. The pool winterisation fires at the start of autumn. You didn't need to know the right intervals — the library knows them.
Each task arrives with step-by-step instructions, not just a name. "Clean dishwasher filter" is a task title. The library also tells you where the filter is, how to remove it, what to rinse it with, and how to reinstall it. The knowledge is attached to the reminder.
Not every task applies to every property. Outdoor spigot winterisation is critical in a cold climate and irrelevant in a tropical one. Pool maintenance assumes there's a pool. Snowmobile tasks assume there's snow.
The library filters by latitude band. High-latitude climates see tasks that assume frost, pipes that freeze, and equipment that needs winter preparation. Low-latitude climates see pool and irrigation tasks that would be absurd in a Nordic winter. Tasks that genuinely apply everywhere — smoke detector testing, fire extinguisher inspection, filter replacement — appear regardless.
This filtering happens automatically based on the location you've set for the property. You don't mark which tasks are relevant. The system starts with what's appropriate and lets you add or remove from there.
The library establishes a baseline. A property with a full inventory of appliances, systems, and vehicles starts with a populated maintenance schedule that reflects known best practice. The gaps it covers are the tasks most people know they should be doing but don't do consistently — because "consistently" requires a system, and the system didn't exist until now.
Everything in the library is editable. Cadences can be adjusted. Tasks can be disabled. Steps can be modified for your specific equipment. The library isn't opinionated about your exact maintenance preferences — it's opinionated about the minimum viable schedule you should start from.
Most tasks in the library score 1 or 2 out of 10 on complexity. This is deliberate. The point isn't to remind you that your boiler needs a professional rebuild. The point is to surface the monthly and quarterly checks that keep the system running — the filter changes, the gasket inspections, the battery replacements — before the absence of those checks becomes a repair bill.
The library is the knowledge. The schedule is the application of it. Add a library item to your inventory and both are in place.