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Cottage Watch on Lake Erie
Cottage watch is simple in principle: somebody local goes to your closed-up cottage on a schedule, looks at the things that fail in an Ontario off-season, and tells you what they found — with photos.
A north-shore cottage can sit empty from October to May. In that window the failures that cost real money are quiet ones: a split supply line, a furnace that quit, a sump that stopped, weather coming through a window seal, or ice damage after a surge event.
A proper visit covers interior and exterior, heat and power, plumbing and sump, doors, windows and locks, roofline and shoreline-facing elevations, and anything else specific to your property. Each visit ends in a date- and time-stamped photo report you can forward to your broker or your contractor.
Frequency depends on whether the cottage is winterized and heated. Fully drained and unheated properties are often fine with monthly checks plus storm response. Cottages left heated, with water on, warrant bi-weekly or weekly visits, because that is where a failure turns into a flood.
Lake Erie weather is its own argument for local coverage. Wind events off the lake arrive fast. We are on this shoreline, so a storm check is a short drive rather than a next-week appointment.
What's Included
- What a cottage watch visit includes
- How often to schedule checks
- Storm and surge response
- What your insurer may expect
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