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I grew up in a building owned and managed by a university, where residents filled out a form if something wasn't working, and the thing got fixed. Structural work simply meant they put us somewhere else for a couple months. At 17 I read How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built and found it fascinating. The monkey's paw curled, and like many people, eventually I had to start learning how to take care of buildings. So far, contexts where I've had to learn things include: single-family house, rented apartment, condo, small multi-family residential building, small rented commercial space.
This wiki has notes about repair, maintenance, and homemaking (I've learned that homemaking involves technical skill too, and cleaning is part of maintenance). On desktop, see the list in the sidebar; on mobile, scroll down below the diagrams for the list.
Resources
- iFixit appliance repair guides
- John Mehan's wiki - another person's collection of things learned
Interesting pictures
From How Buildings Learn:
From a NASA document about Facilities Maintenance and Operations Management (2016):
From "Fourth Dimension in Building: Strategies for Avoiding Obsolescence" (1993), chapter 2, figure 5:
From "Public Facilities Management: Moving toward crisis" by Rebecca Smith (2017):