Write Down Where Everything Turns Off, Before the Day It Matters — Free
In a leak, a gas smell or a power fault, the useful information is where the stopcock is and which breaker is which — and nobody in the house knows, because it was explained once by a plumber four years ago. This form makes you walk the house and write it down: one row per item, a required set that stays boxed until it is filled, and a signature line for the date you checked it.
The proof surface
Free path: the form computes locally in the browser with no key and no account. Where an AI step helps, any free chat assistant works — Google AI Studio's free tier and Groq's free tier were both no-card and rate-limited when this page was reviewed on 2026-09-13 (limits change; check before you rely on them).
Why the flat version breaks
A house has no documentation. The information lives in the head of whoever moved in first, or in the head of the person who fitted the boiler, and it disappears when they are not there. Writing it on one form with a checked date turns an oral tradition into something a neighbour, a plumber or a grown-up child can act on.
How to use the household schedule form in four passes
Open the cupboards, lift the ivy, move the bin. The point of the exercise is finding the things you have never looked at, and a row written from memory is usually written wrong.
'Under the kitchen sink, behind the pedal bin, blue lever' is usable in a hurry. 'In the kitchen' is not. Include what it looks like and which way it turns.
The form boxes them and counts them. A visible hole prompts a call to the plumber or the water company; a guessed row hides the problem until the day it matters.
Inside a cupboard door, on the consumer unit, or on the fridge. A schedule nobody can find is a schedule that does not exist — and re-check it after any work is done.
SAMPLE DATA, NOT A VERIFIED CLAIM: 14 Beckett Terrace · checked 20 Sep 2026 · stopcock under the kitchen sink behind the bin · gas meter behind the hedge box · breaker labels wrong for the kitchen. Replace these values with your own source before you rely on anything.
What breaks first
Recording the labels rather than testing them
Breaker labels are wrong more often than they are right, especially in an older house. Turn each one off and see what stops, then write what you found.
Writing a schedule only you can read
Abbreviations, arrows and 'you know the one' fail the person who needs it most: a neighbour, a plumber, or a family member at 2am.
Leaving the gas emergency number off
The number belongs on the form next to the meter location, not in a phone that might be upstairs or flat.
What you pay otherwise
| The usual route | What it leaves out | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| An emergency plumber's first hour | They find the shutoff, then charge you for the visit | an out-of-hours call-out rate |
| A home inventory app | Contents and valuations for an insurance claim, not where anything turns off | a subscription, and your floor plan on their servers |
| Water damage while somebody looks | Minutes of flow, not hours, decide the size of the claim | a floor, a ceiling and a claim excess |
| This page + the free household schedule form | Computed in your tab, result on screen before you type anything | $0 |
Try the free household schedule form
Eleven rows for a terrace house are already filed with a check date of 20 Sep 2026, and every required row is ticked. Load the new-house record and two required rows box themselves in accent.
Open the free household schedule form →Keep the work if you will use it again
Every row, the required set, the boxed gaps and the check-date countdown, plus copy and share-link, with no account.
The on-screen result is free and repeatable forever. The one-time tier adds a tangible file you keep and the saved history that comes with it; it never removes or degrades the free result.
Boundary: This records what you find and write down; it is not a gas, electrical or plumbing inspection and it cannot verify that anything works. Have gas appliances serviced by a registered engineer, electrical work checked by a qualified electrician, and in an emergency contact the relevant service directly rather than relying on a form.