The Healthy Home Handbook: All You Need to Know to Rid Your Home of Health and Safety Hazards [Paperback]

John Warde (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 18, 1997

In The Healthy Home Handbook, John Warde, the former home-improvement columnist for The New York Times, answers the most frequently asked questions about asbestos, lead, radon, and formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs):

* How harmful are these substances, exactly?
* What steps can you take to test your home yourself?
* What remedies are possible?
* How can you obtain professional help?

The Healthy Home Handbook also tells you everything you need to know to:

* Protect against the dangers of carbon monoxide
* Reduce and eliminate household allergies
* Access old wiring and safeguard electrical systems
* Improve ventilation
* Eliminate dampness
* Silence unwanted noise
* Get rid of fire hazards
* Ensure against falls and other accidents
* Make your home safer for children
* Increase comfort and accessibility for elderly and disabled occupants

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Well, nobody really wants to hear this, but our homes are filled with potential hazards that can harm us, make us ill, or even kill us. That's the bad news. The good news is that a thorough approach and proper information can help any of us eliminate nearly all the potential problems. This book has everything you need to make sure that your own "Home Sweet Home" is not an accident waiting to happen.

From Booklist

Healthy indoor-environment mavens, like other contemporary perfect worlders, have a virtually limitless buffet of guides and handbooks from which to choose their eternal verities and well-intended compulsions. Warde's is notable for comprehensive coverage of invasive pollutants and usefulness for frugal (or terminally industrious) do-it-yourselfers, who will find it indispensable for identifying sources of indoor pollution and potential safety hazards and forthrightly eliminating them. Outfitted with tables, charts, and cutaway illustrations, the book breaks down complex tasks into easy, realizable projects. More than informative, it explains household problems down to the molecular level and even includes sections on the extremely evil-sounding "volatile organic compounds" and that relatively new favorite among basement emanations, radon. Warde on noise pollution goes well beyond telling the kids to TURN IT DOWN, and on minimizing safety hazards, he collocates material on fire safety, child proofing, and rewiring. Just reading this book may scare readers into action, which is partly the point. Good advice capably presented. Mike Tribby

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Product Details

• Paperback: 388 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (February 18, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812921518
• ISBN-13: 978-0812921519
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,998,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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