Congratulations on the completion of your new Tyee home!
Not only is your home your biggest investment but as a homeowner you have a responsibility to mitigate or reduce damage to your home. Proper maintenance can extend the life of many components and systems incorporated into your new home and will help protect your investment and safeguard your warranties.
Tyee Homes understands the importance of protecting your investment and has developed a manual to provide a summary of the more important maintenance items you can expect to encounter with respect to caring for and protecting your new home.
This page supplements the new home maintenance manual you've already received.
BC Residential Construction Performance Guide – a practical online reference tool designed to help homeowners and builders better understand how warranty providers evaluate claims for possible design, labour or material defects in new homes. The Guide sets out the minimum performance required for new homes covered by home warranty insurance in BC.
Guide to Home Warranty Insurance in BC –published by BC Housing and designed to provide practical information to help consumers in BC make informed decisions about their home purchase
Heat Recovery Ventilation Guide for Houses – published by BC Housing to assist designers, builders, renovators and owners gain a better understanding of heat recovery ventilators (HRV’s) and energy recovery ventilators (ERV’s) and how they can support healthy indoor living environments in single family, semi-detached and row housing.
Series of BC Housing Maintenance Bulletins designed to provide practical information on maintaining residential buildings:
Maintenance Matters 01 – Paints, Stains and Coatings
Maintenance Matters 02 – Maintaining your Roof
Maintenance Matters 04 – Residential Windows and Exterior Doors
Maintenance Matters 05 – Sealants
Maintenance Matters 06 – Decks and Balconies
Maintenance Matters 07 – Building Envelope Renewals Planning
Maintenance Matters 08 – Cladding
Maintenance Matters 09 – Exposed Wooden Structures
Maintenance Matters 10 – At Grate and Below Grade Assemblies
Maintenance Matters 14 – Avoiding Exhaust Duct Problems
Maintenance Matters 15 – Impact of Delayed Maintenance Renewals
Maintenance Matters 16 – Maintaining Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems
Maintenance Matters 21 – Preventing Leaks
Maintenance Matters 22 – Balcony Overloading
FireSmart BC Landscaping Guide – Meant to help British Columbians make informed choices about how to manage their lawns and gardens to increase resilience to wildfire on their properties.
FireSmart BC Begins At Home Guide – Outlines how each homeowner can make their property and neighborhood FireSmart.