Product Description

An easy-to-use maintenance guide for the DIY novice.

The Complete Guide to Caring for Your Home is an easy-to-understand but comprehensive guide to common home maintenance and repair tasks, written specifically for less experienced do-it-yourselfers.

From cleaning stains from carpets to unclogging drains, from dealing with insects and pests to fixing a leaky roof, it's all here-everything you forgot to learn from your parents about maintaining a home. Along the way, you'll learn about your home's structures and systems, and how to protect your single largest investment. Home maintenance is not only possible; it can be easy and rewarding, with this one-of-a-kind book.

• Gives complete, easy-to-follow solutions to more than 100 of the most common home maintenance tasks.
• Includes tips on selecting and using tools.
• Appendix includes a month-by-month guide for tracking routine maintenance.
• Includes real-life tips from actual homeowners.
• Features tips for working with plumbers, electricians & carpenters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #665842 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
The editors of Creative Publishing international have produced more than a dozen all-time best-sellers in the home improvement category. The lead editor for The Complete Guide to Caring for Your Home is Jerri Farris, author of Fences, Walls & Gates, Building Garden Ornaments, Flea Market Style, and other books. She lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with her family.

Customer Reviews

Great for beginners
This is helping me a lot as I am just beginning to learn about my home, how to take care of it & how to make minor repairs. I reviewed quite a few books from my library system & this was the best to begin with as far as I'm concerned.