West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative Limited

Planned Maintenance

The Co-operative's main asset is the housing stock, which will be maintained properly to make sure that the physical life and the value of the property are not reduced.

So that this happens, we carry out:

Cyclical Maintenance

This is a planned servicing of the buildings, which deals with natural decay of building components. These can be predicted and planned for. The term "Cyclical Maintenance" is used because the process will have to be repeated regularly during the life of the building.

Day-to-Day Maintenance

This deals with essential repairs, which cannot be left until the next routine maintenance cycle.

Whole Life Maintenance

This is a system of programming planned replacements on a like-for-like basis.

Improvement Work

This is the provision of new features or the replacement of existing components with ones of a significantly higher standard. Improvement work is funded by grant or rent increases.

Page last updated 19th January 2005