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The Reader's Digest Do-It-Yourself Guide to Preventing Costly Home Repairs: Over 19,000 Easy Hints & Tips
The Reader's Digest DoItYourself Guide to Preventing Costly Home Repairs Over 19000 Easy Hints Tips Author:Editors of The Complete Do-It-Yours This book contains more than 1,900 practical tips, easy fix-its, touch-ups, and make-rights for keeping your home problem free and preventing costly repairs. This unique book is written with one purpose in mind?saving the reader thousands of dollars in preventable damage for the most common trouble spots. Perfect for the handyman or woman around... more » the house, the practical techniques do not require special skills or mechanical aptitude?if you can hold a hammer you can save a bundle.
Organized for easy use, the chapters include an introduction that creates a positive, can-do attitude and encouragement to plan ahead; walls and ceilings and floors and stairs maintenance and repair tips; maintaining your curb appeal high without hefty repair bills for siding, doors and windows, roofs, masonry, weatherproofing, and house extensions; advice on how to keep appliances, sinks, furnaces, doorbells, and lights running smoothly; and fire safety, minimizing Radon exposure, natural disasters, termites and other pest damage?preventive measures that will keep your family safe.
This book is all about giving you the knowledge and confidence you need to maintain and enjoy the biggest investment that most people will ever make.« less