Household Continuity Pack
Could someone run your household for seven days without you?
What this brief is
The seventy-two-hour and seven-day operating reference for the household — school runs, medications, suppliers, the boiler, the dog, the alarm code's whereabouts, the standing orders that keep the lights on. Written for the spouse, parent or trusted neighbour who finds themselves operating the house at short notice.
How this brief is read
Read the sample on this page, using the Pemberton-Walsh household throughout.
Open a free account and the brief becomes editable with your own data — your records, your trusted persons, your professional advisers.
Household Continuity Dossier membership (£195 first year, then £99/year) holds the record on the register, prompts the annual review, and issues the Governance Letter when a circumstance changes.
From the brief
When someone in a household becomes ill, incapacitated, hospitalised, unreachable while abroad, or suddenly dies, the family does not first reach for the will. They reach for the things that keep the house running: the keys, the bills, the children's school pickup, the pet's medication, the boiler manual, the Wi-Fi password.
This pack is the operational manual that lives before the legal one. Read once with the household. Update every six months. The single most useful estate-planning document most families never get around to writing.
What this pack is, and is not. This is not a legal instrument. It does not replace the will, the LPAs, or the Operating Brief from the Letter Pack. It is the everyday operational layer beneath those — the things a competent adult would know about your household if they had to step in for a week.
The home operating map
Keys and access: Record where the spare house keys live (with whom, in what envelope, in which drawer). Record the alarm code location (the password manager Emergency Kit, not this document). Record the shed, garage, and outbuilding keys. Record the location of any safe or locked filing cabinet and where the key sits.
Bills, direct debits, and standing orders
The non-negotiables: mortgage, council tax, buildings and contents insurance, energy, water — record the provider, the monthly amount, the payment date, and the account it comes from. These are what keep the household solvent during the first weeks when no one has authority over the main accounts.
The full brief continues — personalised with your household's details.