The Sunday Telegraph Guide to Looking After Your Property: Everything You Need to Know About Maintaining Your Home

by JeffHowell (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.24

  Buying and maintaining a home is the greatest item of expenditure in most people's lives. But disturbingly few of us know how to look after our property properly - how to decide what needs doing when, how to find a decent builder, or how to judge whether the work is done to the right standard. This book, based on Jeff Howell's column On the Level in the Sunday Telegraph, provides the answers.

  Packed with insider tips and knowledge, covering everything from boilers and builders to condensation,central heating, dry rot, damp-proofing, plumbing and woodworm, and using Telegraph readers' stories as case studies, it will be a godsend to the many who can't or don't want to do their own maintenance, but who want to know how to maintain their homes properly by employing the right professionals at the right time.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.79

  For 10 years Jeff Howell has been answering readers' queries about property through his very popular 'Ask Jeff' column in the Sunday Telegraph. This book, in user-friendly Question and Answer format, addresses all the issues every home owner needs to know. Packed with expert tips, Jeff Howell offers comprehensive and authoritative advice on everything from boilers and builders, to central heating, condensation, damp proofing, dry rot, plumbing and woodworm. Using readers' stories as case histories, this authoritative book is the key to understanding how to maintain your home properly. How do you decide what needs doing and when? How do you find a decent builder? How do you judge if the work has been done to the right standard? All the answers and more are here in this clearly presented, accessible and practical book. For all the latest information visit Jeff Howell's website: www.askjeff.co.uk