Hearth: Home Inventory

Your home came with a manual you never got. Hearth keeps a passport for everything you own — the fridge, the furnace, the water heater, the smoke alarms — and tells you when each one needs attention. PHOTOGRAPH THE NAMEPLATE. GET A SCHEDULE. Point your camera at the model plate on the back of an appliance. Hearth reads the brand and model, works out what it is, and builds a maintenance schedule from a knowledge base of how that kind of thing actually wears out. One photo, and you know your furnace filter is due in six weeks. THEN IT REMINDS YOU. A reminder arrives before the thing breaks, not after. Change the filter, flush the water heater, clear the dryer vent — on the interval that matters for your equipment, not a generic checklist. KEEP THE PROOF. Log what you did, what it cost, and who did it. When you sell the house, file a claim, or discover the warranty still covers the part…