Home Maintenance for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Authors: James Carey, Morris Carey
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 26847
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 408
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0764552155
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.7
UPC: 785555019089
EAN: 9780764552151
ASIN: 0764552155
Publication Date: March 27, 2000
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Product Description
Having a house can bea hassle. But thanks to timesaving, trouble-preventing strategies from these nationally recognized experts, now anyone can keep his or her palace in regal repair and have plenty of time left over for the fox hunts. This friendly book covers everything from plumbing to painting, with handy calendars to ensure nothing falls through the cracks -- including the cracks!
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1st time home-owner October 17, 2008
This book is useful resource for the first time homeowner. After living in my house for a year I started thinking...aren't there things I should be doing to make sure my house doesn't fall apart?? I had gotten so used to apartment life, that I didn't think about maintaining my own home. I like having this book to go to for reference and what to do for year-round maintenance.
 Good book September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am creating a home library for my new house after living in a apartment for 32 years of my life. This book is a outstanding book for any rookie home owner.
really helpful June 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, it arrived on time: Second, I just started working on the house, fixing petty electricity problems etc..It's relly helpful
worked April 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has provided me with the knowledge that I needed to complete jobs around the house that I could not otherwise have been able to do. This book provided me with the incentive to do it myself.
 Generally, too general April 20, 2007
This book tries to cover everything on home maintenance and ultimately fails to adequately explain in detail the things you might really use.
Take, for example, insulating an attic space. It's covered, but only very briefly. I ended up using various websites that had more detail and were more helpful when I took up that project.
There's an entire chapter on pools and spas, an entire chapter on decks, and several others that seem to be a bit more specialized. That's not a problem; the problem is that the general home stuff that almost any homeowner would need (e.g. plumming or HVAC or normal repairs) get less treatment.
I have no doubt the authors would be able to repair just about anything in most houses. But their book, supposedly for idiots, glazes over far too many normal repairs without enough detail for us idiots to actually be able to use this book.
There are some helpful tidbits in here, and if you already have a collection of DIY type home repair books, this might make a good addition. But if you're looking for a good general home repair book to help you with most normal home repair projects - this isn't it.
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