Maintenance or Projects, One-Time or Less Than Annual

Painting

Using stencil and asphalt paint, paint community name on driveway entrances.  Renew every couple of years or after resealing.

Paint street number on curbs.

Paint north curb of east driveway red, designating No Parking.

Mark floor by garage sprinkler control box not to put anything there blocking access.  E.g., red grid using a stencil.

Paint or tape lines on garage floor to ‘angle park’ mowers and wheelbarrows to store compactly.

Paint numbers 1-12 on the inside of the plate at the base of the lampposts, to better track maintenance.

Irrigation

Run pvc and funny pipe into corners of c.h. back porch and install quarter-arc sprinklers aimed out, instead of watering from the side and wetting the cement.

Change bushes and trees on the west berm to emitter rings, not drip.

Replace wild area 1/2" tubing with 3/4" for better flow.  Put emitter circles on shrubs instead of drip emitters.

In carport orchard, dig out each sprinkler head & trench toward the tree.  Cut 6 feet of emitter tubing for each tree and make a

circle with a tee fitting.  Change sprinkler head to tubing converter, then an elbow to turn horizontal.  Lay pvc in the trench and

thread tubing through.  Elbow to surface, elbow flat, and connect emitter circle to tubing line.

Change east berm to drip.  Put drip rings around all trees and bushes, approximately thirty.

Trim yellow roses along Utah Street and extend irrigation to them.

Outside Work

Install child-safe grid over bath tub spring in north wild area.

Remove elms from swale west of common house.

Get a sign pole and install "Private Drive" sign at entrance to Cheyenne drive.

Install triangular concrete blocks along common house path where square blocks zigzag.

Lay a path of cement blocks or wood chips from the south corner to the back porch on c.h. (from overhang to overhang).

Apply linseed oil to dumpster enclosures, southeast enclosure, porch posts and beams on c.h. and all units, garden bib posts, clothesline posts, play structures, wooden benches.

Attach (wire) a gas turn-off wrench to each building gas meter.  13 locations?

Dig out weed barrier on berms.  Cut and remove.  Recover with cardboard and wood chips.

On at least one site light (north field?) the clear cover around the light is broken.

Interior Work

Sand c.h. stair bannister and re-stain.

Cut hole(s) in drywall on stairs, frame holes, and install cabinet doors for storage space.

Install a cabinet in the old ice maker hole.

Put filing cabinets in interior office on wheels.

Electrical

Reorganize upstairs common house lighting switches. Instead of three switch controlling banks of lights kitty corner in different areas, do five switches, north area, south area, cosy/sitting room, hall, vault/clerestory.

Cut cord of hanging lamps and rewire to shorten so don’t need a taped loop.

Install ceiling fans in dining room and bedrooms.

Tasks Not Requiring Mobiity

Stitch tear in leather ottoman in sitting room.

Tasks Requiring Limited Physical Ability

Inventory all community equipment.  Record brand, model, serial number, description including identifying marks, price if known, date acquired if known, provenance or source.

Do a map of all lampposts, drains, stop-and-waste valves, sprinkler valve boxes, utility boxes, gas meters, etc.

Sand wooden tool handles. Rebrand community name (Kay has brand). Rub linseed oil into the wood.

Get all blueprints scanned. 

Get additional matching shelves for kitchen cupboards so shelves can be spaced closer with less wasted space.

Projects Requiring Large Spend Process with Management Involvement

Multiple porches have insufficient footing under the upright post, resulting in sinking, resulting in cracks in the porch concrete.

Get and install a permanent ladder to the upstairs c.h. loft.