Apartment Maintenance
Catch grout and seal failures before they cost you.
A focused inspection workspace for small bathrooms. Pick your layout, mark the spots that worry you, and get a prioritized checklist with severity ratings, photo prompts, and a repair-or-escalate decision helper.
1. Describe your bathroom
The more you tell us, the sharper the checklist. All fields are optional.
2. Your inspection checklist
Tap a severity button as you inspect each point. The list updates live.
No checklist yet. Fill in the form above and press Generate checklist.
3. Repair or escalate?
Answer three quick questions to get a practical next step.
Did you find soft spots, crumbling grout, or water stains on the wall or floor below?
Is the failure at a joint that moves, like where the tub meets the wall?
Do you rent, and does your lease put surface caulk on you?
Saved inspections
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How to use this inspector
Pick a preset that matches your bathroom
The studio preset focuses on the tub-shower surround and toilet base. The shared-family preset adds the vanity and floor vents. The en-suite preset adds the doorway threshold. If none fit, choose Custom and the checklist will stay general.
Mark what already worries you
Those checkboxes push the matching items to the top of the list and bump their starting severity. This is the fastest way to stop ignoring the spot behind the toilet that smells musty every August.
Work the list with a flashlight and a cotton swab
Shine a light across the grout lines. Tap the caulk with a dry swab. If the swab catches or the caulk lifts, that joint has failed. Tap each tile. A hollow sound next to a solid sound means the bond underneath is gone.
Save it and compare next season
Press Save inspection before you print. Next time you open the page, your past checks appear in the Saved inspections panel. Compare severity ratings over time. A medium that becomes high is your signal to act, not wait.
Common mistakes people make
- Ignoring soft spots near the tub edge. A little give when you press the wall is not normal. It means water has been sitting behind the surface for weeks.
- Caulking over old caulk. New caulk will not stick to old caulk that is already failing. Remove the old bead first, or the repair fails in months.
- Using kitchen caulk in a wet area. Bathroom caulk needs mold resistance and flexibility. Kitchen caulk does not.
- Skipping the toilet base. A slow leak at the wax ring wicks into the subfloor. By the time you see it, the floor around the toilet is soft.
- Not photographing failures. If you rent, dated photos are your evidence. If you own, they are your repair log.
A quick scenario walkthrough
Maria rents a 1998 garden apartment. Her bathroom is small, with a tub-shower combo, a wall vanity, and a window above the tub. She picks the Studio preset, checks "tub caulk" and "musty smell" as known problems, and sets fixture age to 10 to 20 years.
The checklist puts tub caulk and the window frame at the top. She inspects with a flashlight and finds the caulk has pulled away from the wall on two sides. She marks both as High severity. The decision helper tells her: renter, surface caulk is likely her responsibility, but the musty smell means she should notify the landlord in writing with photos before doing the repair.
She saves the inspection, prints the sheet, and tapes a copy inside the bathroom cabinet. Four months later she re-runs it. The window frame has moved from Medium to High. She now has a dated record showing the progression.