The New York Times Home Repair Almanac: A Season-by-Season Guide for Maintaining Your Home [Paperback]

Edward L. Lipinski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 1999

The Home Repair Almanac includes 125 of Lipinski's best New York Times columns, updated to reflect current trends and informatin and illustrated with hundreds of the author's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Lebhar-Friedman (April 14, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867307595
• ISBN-13: 978-0867307597
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,195,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A godsend for homeowners, July 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The New York Times Home Repair Almanac: A Season-by-Season Guide for Maintaining Your Home (Paperback)

The advice in this book is great, and very easy to follow. As a new owner of a "fixer-upper," so far I've saved at LEAST $1,500 by doing repairs myself with the help of this book. I was amazed at how simple some of these repairs were, things that I was certain would require professional help, like installing locks, repairing walls, patching up my driveway. I never thought I could do all of these things alone, but they're very easy. It's also got great tips for year-round yardwork.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars must have beeh written by an apartment dweller, July 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The New York Times Home Repair Almanac: A Season-by-Season Guide for Maintaining Your Home (Paperback)

I was given this book when I purchased a seventy year old house in a historic district. I don't even refer to it anymore. It reads as if it was written by someone who heard about living in house. For example, there's no indication of how to change washers in a faucet (a VERY common household repair).
I prefer the Reader's Digest Book of Home Repair. Now that's a book about home repair.

4.0 out of 5 stars good overview, October 4, 2002

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This review is from: The New York Times Home Repair Almanac: A Season-by-Season Guide for Maintaining Your Home (Paperback)

gives season by season tips on things that need to be done to keep your house in good condition. If you follow the prentitive maintenance suggested, you'll have fewer household emergencies down the line.