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.
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.
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.
Electrical
Reorganize upstairs common house lighting switches to control zones of light (north or stairs, south of stairs, seating cubby) instead of kitty-corner light banks.
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 etc.
Sand wooden tool handles. Rebrand community name (Kay has brand). Rub linseed oil into the wood.
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.