Product Description

Newly revised and updated to include information on energy efficiency--saving money, saving energy and maintaining your home. Finally, a homeowner's manual for everyone. Just as a new vehicle comes with an Owner's Manual, now your house can too. Homeowners aren't expected to repair their own home anymore than a driver is expected to repair their vehicle. Yet in each case, the owner is expected to know when a problem arises and who to call for help if the job isn't DIY. That is an owner's responsibility. Maintaining a home means knowing when servicing needs to be done, or when repairs need to be made. None of this is obvious to someone who has never been responsible for a home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1291351 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From the Publisher
Finally, here's the book to fill the void for the first-time home buyer who has never had the opportunity or the need to take full responsibility for their home.

You are not an idiot if you don't know how to care for your own home, you are simply uninformed about it. There's a big difference.

The Savvy Woman's Guide to Owning a Home will help you become more conversant with your home's functions, how it works and what to expect, without taking up a lot of your valuable time.

From the Author
I noticed that there isn't one homeowner's manual for women who don't want to do-it-yourself, but do need to know how to run and maintain their house. Sure, there are plenty of books on how to fix things, but what about the people who aren't handy with tools? While millions of women own their own homes, what is the percentage of those who know how to maintain the house, much less fix it themselves? Or how about the women married to men who can't use a hammer? Or the homeowners who don't have the time to DIY?

Over the last 20 years, I've helped many of my friends with their homeowner problems—from giving advice to actually doing the job. It was time to write the book.

About the Author
As a child Kitty Werner helped her father build additions and sheds and remodel the family's house, getting plenty of hands-on experience. As a homeowner, she has had over thirty years of practical on-the-job training to write this book. Eventually Kitty and her husband, Peter, a masonry contractor, bought their own house in Vermont. As their family grew to include two children and numerous pets, the house grew. They fixed electric wiring, replumbed fixtures, finished off a bathroom, added a large addition, dealt with lightning storms blowing out the water supply, electric lines coming down, days without power and water, and all manner of exciting events.