Waukesha County, Wisconsin

What this place does to a house

• Waukesha County is an EPA Zone 1 radon area — the highest band. A $15 test kit settles it; most homes here have never been tested.
• With ~148 freeze days a year, one forgotten garden hose can crack a pipe inside your wall. We'll ping you before the first freeze.

The numbers we plan around

Frost

First frost usually lands around October 13, and the last one lets go around April 30 — figure ~148 freezing days in between.

The air

Middling humidity — the easy setting, as air goes.

The load

Heating season rules the calendar — the furnace does the year's heavy lifting.

Termites

Low pressure across this part of the country — a regional band, not a guess at your street.

Radon

EPA Zone 1 — the highest band. A $15 test settles it; most homes here have never run one.

What jobs cost here

Labor here sits right around the national average.

• Flush your water heater$120–$220 herenational: $120–$225
• Chimney sweep and inspection$145–$345 herenational: $150–$350
• Fall heating-season checkup$90–$185 herenational: $90–$190

The year here, at a glance

Planned for a typical local house — a 1980s–'90s build on a basement with a gas furnace, tank water heater, and shingle roof, on city water and sewer. Different house?The app rebuilds the year around yours.

1. January13 tasks
2. February12 tasks
3. March11 tasks
4. April11 tasks
5. May11 tasks
6. June10 tasks
7. July8 tasks
8. August6 tasks
9. September8 tasks
10. October14 tasks
11. November10 tasks
12. December6 tasks

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