Repairs are restoration work for when an asset breaks, gets damaged, or stops working. Maintenance refers to routine activities and/or corrective or preventive repair done on assets to prevent damage and prolong the life expectancy.

Common repair and maintenance expenses include costs incurred for: Replacing broken or worn-out parts with comparable parts. Repairing HVAC units, toilets, and faucets. Cleaning building structures and systems.

There are different types of repair. One type is replacing repair, where an emerging word is truncated and a different word is used in its place . Another type is recycling repair with modification, where some parts of the repaired segment are repeated but other parts are replaced or modified .

Building maintenance is work undertaken to keep, restore or improve every facility at every part of the building, its services including horticulture operations to a currently acceptable standard and to sustain the utility and value of the facility.