{ "item_title" : "The Homeowner's Repair Playbook", "item_author" : [" Walt Webber "], "item_description" : "Something in your house is going to break.The question is never really whether you can physically do the repair. It's whether trying will make it worse. Most homeowners aren't held back by a skills gap. A recent homeowner survey found that 57 percent of people attempt DIY repairs mainly to save money, but only 34 percent feel genuinely confident doing even basic projects. That gap between wanting to try and trusting yourself to try is exactly what this book closes.Most home repair books are flat listicles: a chapter on plumbing, a chapter on electrical, a chapter on carpentry, with no throughline and no way to tell which repairs are actually safe for a beginner. This book is built around a different idea. Chapter 1 hands you a simple four-question framework you run before touching anything, sorting any household problem into safe to DIY, DIY with caution, or call a pro, before you've spent a dollar or opened a wall. Every chapter after that applies the same framework to a different part of the house.Inside this book: The five-minute decision framework that tells you, for any repair, whether it's genuinely safe to attempt yourself, worth trying carefully, or a job that belongs to a licensed professional, with real worked examples showing how the same four questions produce very different answersThe actual starter toolkit worth owning, under 150 dollars total, plus which specialty tools to rent instead of buyFifty specific, named repairs across walls and trim, plumbing, electrical, appliances, floors and tile, windows and doors, the roof and exterior, and HVAC and water heaters, each with clear step-by-step instructionsA conservative, honest line drawn around electrical and roofing work, exactly where a careful beginner's safe repairs end and where fire, shock, and fall risk mean it's time to call someone licensedA full chapter on hiring well: getting multiple quotes, verifying licensing and insurance, reading a written estimate line by line, and the five questions worth asking before anyone starts work in your homeHow to build a simple repair log and an emergency shutoff map for your home's water, electrical, and gas systems, so you're never scrambling to find a shutoff valve during an actual emergencyA bonus chapter connecting this book directly to Home Maintenance for Beginners, Book 1 in this series, showing how a prevention system and a repair system work together across the life of a homeWritten in the same plain, practical voice as the rest of Walt Webber's guides, this book won't turn you into a contractor. It will give you the judgment to know, for the thing broken in front of you right now, exactly which side of the line it's on.Book 3 of the Home & Property Guides series, from the author of the Genealogy Guides and Outdoor Guides series.Scroll up and grab your copy today.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/041/9798190416077_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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