Mind your maintenance

BRANZ continues to improve its maintenance schedule service

BRANZ’s new maintenance schedule workspace is designed to save builders time thanks to features that make it easier and quicker to use.

Users can now manage volumes of schedules and save, sort and share them within their own personal workspace. The enhanced, easy-to-use features include the ability to:

• Sort and save schedules alphabetically by schedule name or client name.
• Add notes to each schedule.
• Include a practical completion date.
• Send and share your schedules to other users within the tool.
• Save schedules as a favourite when building spec homes and produce copies of favourites for future builds.

Maintenance info is mandatory

According to consumer protection measures, once the building work is completed, you must give clients information about the processes and materials to be used to maintain the building work. This is mandatory regardless of the price of the work. It is particularly important if maintenance:

• Is required to meet the requirements of the Building Code.
• Could affect any guarantee or warranty.

This is an additional requirement over and above any maintenance information supporting a consent application.

You could be fined if you don’t provide this information, so make sure to provide clients with a detailed maintenance schedule report at the end of the build.

For more information, see here: www.maintenanceschedules.co.nz