fixchecklist.com · Edition 2026.08 · Consumer repair and maintenance

Procedure Repository

Two hundred and nine repair procedures for the equipment in an ordinary house. Every step traces to a manufacturer document, a published standard, or a government safety body — and every number that does not trace is left out on purpose.
Entries
209 procedures
Language of the steps
ASD-STE100, Issue 9
Safety notices
ANSI Z535
Specifications printed
415 of 1,002
The refusal587 of 1,002 specifications are not printed. That is the whole argument.

Five hundred and eighty-seven numbers this repository will not print.

A repair page has one job nobody checks: the number. Torque, pressure, voltage, wire gauge, clearance, fastener grade, load rating, temperature limit. This repository holds 1,002 of them. 415 are traced to a manufacturer document, a published standard, or a government safety authority, and are printed with the source and the date it was read.

The other 587 are not printed at all. In their place the page says which document to open — yours, for your model. A competitor invents the figure. Fifty-nine per cent of the specifications here are a blank with an instruction in it, and that blank is the product.

1002 specifications: 415 traced to a primary source, drawn as filled marks; 587 routed to the manufacturer, drawn as blank rules.
415 traced to a primary source587 routed to the manufacturer59% of 1,002
Fig. 1 — the specification ledgerOne mark for each of the 1,002 specifications held in the store, sorted by state. A filled mark is a number on the page with a dated source beside it. A blank rule is a number the reader is sent to their own manual for.
Specimenas printed
Anti-tip bracket load ratingNot verified

Consult the manufacturer documentation for this equipment.

No tier-1 source was found for this value · see it on the page

Why the gap is set in type

A plausible figure for the wrong model is worse than no figure. So an unverified safety value is never averaged, never inferred from a third-party page, and never quietly rounded into the text. Where two primary sources disagree, both are named and the disagreement is published.

How a value is verified →

The corpus6 shelves, 209 entries, 1,339 links between them.

What is on the shelf.

The repository is organised by the equipment in front of you, not by trade. One object is drawn for each shelf. The rule against each row is that shelf’s count, drawn to scale against the largest.

Plate 1 — exploded general assembly.6 objects drawn in isometric projection on one assembly axis, each numbered with a leader to a balloon: item 01, a stop valve with a handwheel and two threaded tails, for home systems, 51 published, item 02, a cylindrical mesh filter basket with a flange, for appliances, 46 published, item 03, a socket with a hexagonal drive mouth and a knurled band, for tools, measurement and records, 32 published, item 04, a spin-on oil filter can with a ported base plate, for vehicle, 29 published, item 05, an eight-contact modular plug with a latch, for computing and networking, 27 published, item 06, a spark plug with a hex, a thread and a ground electrode, for outdoor power equipment, 24 published. Every count is repeated in the parts list below the plate.010203040506
  1. Home systemsHeating, cooling, water, drainage, home electrical work and the devices that keep a dwelling safe.Stop valve51
  2. AppliancesMaintenance, cleaning and error-code interpretation for domestic appliances.Dishwasher filter46
  3. Tools, measurement and recordsCare and correct use of hand tools, power tools and instruments, and the equipment records that make every other procedure faster.Hex socket32
  4. VehicleConsumer-level vehicle maintenance, consumables and warning indicators.Spin-on oil filter29
  5. Computing and networkingConnectivity, printing, storage and backup, system faults, and the physical care of a device.8P8C modular plug27
  6. Outdoor power equipmentSmall engine and battery outdoor equipment care.Spark plug24
Plate 1 — exploded general assemblySix objects on one assembly axis, numbered in order of published count. The parts list beneath carries the same numbers.

The store, counted

Published procedures
209
Steps
5,082
Hazard notices
1,031
Specifications
1,002
traced to a source
415
routed to the manufacturer
587
Registered sources
852
cited by a published page
813
Cross-references between pages
1,339

Nothing here is a landing page

Every entry is a rendering of a structured record: steps, hazards, tools and specifications stored as data and checked before they become a page. A page that fails the check is held, not published — a held page costs nothing.

See the shape of the whole corpus →

Selected entriesTitles in ordinary English. Steps in controlled English.

From the index.

A title is allowed to be ordinary — including the everyday, technically wrong phrasing people actually type. The steps beneath it are not: those are held to one term per item, one instruction per sentence, conditions before actions. These are the six longest entries in the repository; the step count is the record’s own.

  1. How to erase or factory reset a Mac or a Windows computer before you sell it, give it away or donate it49 steps
  2. How to fix a leaky faucet that drips from the spout or weeps around the handle48 steps
  3. How to fix a printer that says offline in Windows 11 and Windows 1047 steps
  4. Decide why water is standing in the bottom of a dishwasher46 steps
  5. How to unclog a slow or blocked drain in a sink, bathtub or shower45 steps
  6. Work out why a battery is flat every morning when the battery itself tests good43 steps

Most recently revised: How to check and replace the fill hoses on a washing machine, 2026-08-12. Search all 209 entries →

List of plates

The drawn figures. An illustration sets the scene and never carries an instruction: the written checklist controls the work.

The methodFour notes on how a page is made, and what stops it.

Notes on the making of a page.

I · Language.

Steps, hazard notices and tool notes are written to ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, Issue 9 — the controlled English of aircraft maintenance manuals. One term per item, held throughout the page. Imperative, active, one instruction to a sentence, conditions before actions.

II · Hazard placement.

Safety information follows ANSI Z535: signal word, colour and placement are fixed by the standard rather than by taste. A hazard notice is never placed after the step it protects, and a hazard level is never downgraded to make a job look easier.

III · Refusal.

A safety-critical value that cannot be traced to a primary source is not printed. The page carries an instruction to consult the equipment documentation instead. Two sources that disagree are both named; the figures are never averaged into one comfortable number.

IV · The record.

Each page renders a structured record. Sources are dated at the moment they were read, corrections are logged in public with the date and the reason, and a page that fails the gate is held rather than published.

Read the publication standard →

A hazard notice block drawn above a step block, with an arrow running down from the notice to the step. The notice is always read before the action it protects.WARNINGsignal-word barhazard textthen, and not beforestep text
Fig. 2 — reading order, fixed by the standardRule 4: a hazard notice is never placed after the step it protects. The signal-word bar is drawn here in ink hatch, not in safety orange — a reader who learns orange as WARNING must never meet that orange used as decoration.
What is not hereThe refusals are counted too, and they are published.

The things this repository leaves out.

Live service-panel work, gas fitting, structural alteration and the rest of the exclusion list are not published here at any length. In their place a page names the diagnostic a reader can do safely and the point at which the job belongs to a licensed trade. A source that could not be reached is recorded as refused rather than quietly dropped, and a page that fails the gate is held rather than softened.

Specifications routed to the manufacturer
587
Classes of work this repository will not describe
10
Sources checked and refused
93
Pages held back from publication
3
Corrections logged in public
0

The corrections log · the errata register · what the system is doing today

A checklist should show its work.

This is a repository of consumer maintenance, repair and troubleshooting procedures. Every page is a rendering of a structured record: the steps, the hazards, the tools and every specification are stored as data, checked, and then published.

Two things make a page here different from the same topic elsewhere. The language is controlled, so a step means one thing and only one thing. And every number is traced to a manufacturer document, a published standard, or a government safety authority, with the date it was read.