With an investment of a few dollars, homeowners can have a maintenance guide that will enable them to preserve and protect the most important investment that they are ever likely to make. However, besides being a maintenance guide, “Manual for a Happy Home” is a perfect housewarming gift. It needs no specialized knowledge to appreciate, and includes pictures of real components, real conditions, and real problems, in contexts that the average homeowner would immediately recognize and understand. Housewarming gifts are usually not expensive, and are not intended to be. They are intended to be thoughtful, but when they provide practical and valuable information their value is limitless.
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Inspect and Protect was written as a protocol for avoiding litigation, for building inspectors. It is comprised of dozens of essays that were written and published in various magazines, in which inspectors were warned about the threat that litigation poses to their livelihoods. If all litigation was fair and honest there would be no need for concern, but it is not, as this book documents with actual case histories. And, unfortunately, the threat is growing. The good news is that it takes very little effort for inspectors to protect themselves; it is simply a matter of understanding the threat, and then making a few fundamental changes in the way they inspect and report on properties.
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