Do you have a house binder at home where you collect all the information and documents about your house? If you don't, you really should do it physically or digitally!

As the house is filled with more and more modern and advanced machines, it becomes more and more important to collect information such as receipts, invoices, maintenance service records and fault reports. Why?

Yes, to be able to get the information faster as insurance companies, repairers, service companies, new homeowners or advisors for replacement products. When it comes to your heat pump, the heat pump technician may need to compare this year's service report with previous years to see how the heat pump is doing and when the heat pump breaks down, a history of values can be worth their weight in gold to be able to troubleshoot faster and more accurately and then be able to repair so that you regain function with heat, hot water or with cold.

When it comes to advice, it makes it much easier to have the information gathered, then the adviser can more quickly and easily get more advice and replacement product or be able to produce the right product that is compatible with the remaining products. If you choose to buy spare parts yourself, it is also very good to be able to have the serial number, model designation and other info somewhere other than behind a dirty heat pump (not infrequently the info you needed has already been rubbed off...).

In recent years, there have been digital solutions, which make the "house binder" even more flexible. Then protocols, invoices, etc. are emailed directly into the app so that everything is collected and you have that information with you at all times. Because it is not always the case that you are at home when you need to call a service technician or buy spare parts. Such an app is called House:ID and not only collects all the heat pump's information, but also insurances, color codes from the paint shop and other machines in the house such as the fridge. It can be downloaded from the appstore or playstore and has both free and paid features.