Fall & Seasonal Prep Checklist

What this is

Winter finds every deferred task in a building. This checklist gets ahead of it — the seasonal walk-through that stops a small autumn job from becoming an expensive January emergency.

It runs the exterior, mechanical, life-safety and communication tasks that a Canadian building needs before the first freeze: shut-offs and drain-downs, heating and boiler checks, roof and drainage, snow-and-ice contracts, and the resident notices that head off the predictable complaints.

What's inside

• An exterior and grounds walk-through list
• Mechanical and heating-season readiness checks
• Life-safety items to confirm before winter
• Snow, ice and contractor scheduling prompts
• Resident communication templates for the seasonal reminders

How to use it

Run it in early fall, before contractors get booked up. Assign each line an owner and a date. The resident-notice templates are there so the "why is the water off?" emails never start.