Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful Rehabilitation)
Description:
A Guide for Owners and Residents of Old Houses What are the best sources for researching the history of your home? How do you know if a particular old house is right for you? The original siding on your historic house is missing -- what can you do? How can you safely clean the exterior of your house? The answers to many questions such as these are given in this well-illustrated handbook for owners and residents of old homes. Caring for Your Old House offers comprehensive advice to old-house owners and residents on researching, repairing and maintaining an old residence to avoid the pitfalls of too many changes too soon. In this authoritative guidebook, the author demystifies the questions surrounding what is historically significant, what is an appropriate rehabilitation and when is restoration appropriate. Caring for Your Old House offers helpful advice on:
* inspecting a house for possible purchase
* what to expect when considering repairs to exterior and interior portions of the house
* energy conservation methods
* hiring architects and contractors
* ongoing maintenance
* and much more!
This book is filled with checklists and tips including 10 money-saving ideas for consideration before beginning rehabilitation, a capsule history of the preservation movement, descriptions of key architectural styles and 14 ways to finance a rehabilitation. Also included is a glossary, a reading list, the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and more than 150 illustrations and photographs.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780471143710
Frequently Asked Questions about Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful Rehabilitation)
The price for the book starts from $9.58 on Amazon and is available from 14 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful Rehabilitation) book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful Rehabilitation) book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful Rehabilitation) book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 5,779,837 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.