A yearly maintenance plan for the whole house, built at your Annual Home Review and carried out by trusted trades, so small issues are caught before they become emergencies.
A clogged eavestrough that sends water behind the brick. A boiler that was not serviced before the first cold night. A sump pump nobody tested before the spring storms. In a large or older home, dozens of systems each need their own trade and their own schedule, and it is easy for one to slip.
Zebrano keeps all of it on track. Your Home Manager learns the house, builds a plan for the year and books the right trades before the season, not after something fails. Examples include eavestrough cleaning, yearly backwater valve and sump pump testing, and Home Watch for members while they are away.
Building codes and products keep improving, and many houses were built or last renovated to the standards of their day. Leak sensors, automatic water shut-offs, backwater valves, smart thermostats and better attic ventilation are now widely available. A house that has just joined us often arrives with years of deferred care. Your Home Manager finds where it falls short at the first Annual Home Review, then plans the fixes and upgrades into the Annual Home Care Plan and the Five-Year Capital Plan.
There are no monthly fees. Members buy a minimum of 60 hours of Home Manager time at $121 an hour, and unused hours never expire. Trade and maintenance work is billed through Zebrano as it is done, on the same invoice. A common rule of thumb is to set aside about 1% of a home's value each year for maintenance; our Home Maintenance Calculator gives you a starting number.
Most systems need a visit at least once a year, and several need two: heating in the fall, cooling in the spring, eavestroughs in late fall and again in spring, and backwater valve and sump checks before the spring rains. Larger and older houses need more. Your Home Manager builds the whole schedule into your Annual Home Care Plan so nothing depends on memory.
Furnace or boiler service, humidifier and filter changes, eavestroughs cleaned once the leaves are down, exterior taps and irrigation shut off and drained, a check of the roof and chimney flashing, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms tested, and the sump pump and backwater valve tested. Members have all of it booked and supervised for them.
A common rule of thumb is to set aside about 1% of a home's value each year, often more for larger, complex and historic homes. Your Five-Year Capital Plan shows the bigger items ahead, like a roof or a boiler, so they are budgeted rather than discovered. Our home maintenance calculator gives a quick estimate.
Preventative maintenance is scheduled work that keeps systems running and catches problems early: servicing, cleaning, inspecting and replacing worn parts. Repairs fix something that has already failed. A good plan moves your spending from emergency repairs, which cost more and arrive at the worst time, to planned work booked when it suits you.
Yes. Every visit, service and repair is recorded with notes and photos in your Home Manual, along with the house's systems, models, warranties and trades. It helps with warranty claims, insurance and resale, and means a new trade starts with the house's history instead of a guess.
There are no monthly fees. Members buy a minimum of 60 hours of Home Manager time at $121 an hour, and unused hours never expire. Trade and maintenance work is billed through Zebrano as it is done, on the same invoice, because every home's needs are different.
In business since 2001. One Home Manager knows your house, its systems and its trades, so maintenance happens on time and the history of the house is never lost.
Zebrano - Luxury Home Management. We look after Toronto homes: maintenance, trades, small renovations, refreshes and emergencies. In business since 2001.