Notes on home maintenance
Writing on home upkeep, breaker panels, and keeping the record of a house somewhere the whole household can reach it. By Jay Wilson, who builds Tobi.
How often to change your furnace filter
How often to change a furnace filter by thickness, what makes one dirty faster, how to check and change it in a minute, and how to stop forgetting.
Electrical panel numbering explained: how breaker slots are numbered
Learn how breaker panel numbers work. See odd and even columns, tandem breakers, and double-pole breakers.
New homeowner checklist: what the previous owner never wrote down
A first-month checklist for a house you just bought: the breaker panel, the model numbers, the service history, the shutoffs, and the alarm dates nobody handed you.
Tobi is on the App Store
Tobi 1.0.0 is available on the App Store for iPhone. One shared record of your home: maintenance tasks, the breaker panel, and contractor history.
What does this breaker control? Mapping an unlabeled panel
Learn how to find out what each breaker controls in an unlabeled breaker box, map the circuits safely, and handle unknowns with a printable directory.
How to label your electrical panel the right way
Learn how to find out what every breaker controls, write circuit labels people can trust, and print a directory that fits your panel door.
What is Tobi? A home maintenance app your whole household shares
Tobi keeps one shared record of your home: the maintenance log, the electrical panel schedule, contractor history, and reminders everyone can see.
Home maintenance, finally shared.
Tobi gives your whole household one place for the maintenance log, electrical panel schedule, and upcoming tasks, with a full history of who did what and when.
