
Nineteen years of house calls.
I spent nineteen years as a maintenance tech, most of it around Chicago. Somebody would call on a Tuesday because water was coming through a ceiling, and I would stand in their kitchen explaining that the thing that broke had been quietly going for two years. Nobody had looked. Not because they did not care, but because there was no reason to, and nobody whose job it was.
After a while you notice it is the same short list every time. A packed dryer vent. A drain nobody flushed. A water heater full of sediment. Alarms with the batteries pulled out. Caulk that gave up. Five things, over and over, in houses worth a great deal of money, all of them cheap to prevent and ruinous to ignore.
So Housiro runs the other way round. We come before anything breaks, on a schedule, for a price you already paid. Same person, same list, a report with photos after every visit. No emergencies invented, nothing upsold, and if we cannot help we tell you who can.
We are not a list of strangers. We are the company that does the work.
Five things I kept finding too late
Those five are why the Basic 14 exists, and why we do the whole list on every visit whether or not you asked for it.
- 01A dryer vent packed solid with lint
- 02A drain nobody had flushed in a decade
- 03A water heater full of sediment
- 04Alarms with the batteries pulled out
- 05Shower caulk that gave up two years ago
- Licensed, bonded and insured in Illinois
- Every tech on payroll, background checked
- 13 Chicagoland towns in the corridor today