This book, based on Jeff Howell's column "On the Level" in the Sunday Telegraph, is packed with insider tips and knowledge, covering everything from boilers and builders to condensation, central heating, dry rot, damp-proofing, plumbing, and woodworm. Using Telegraph readers' stories as case studies, it will help many who can't or don't want to do their own maintenance, but who want to know how to maintain their homes properly by employing the right professionals at the right time..
Jeff Howell is is a former bricklayer, construction lecturer and surveyor. He has written a weekly national press building column since 1997 - initially for the Independent on Sunday, and since April 1999 for the Sunday Telegraph. He lives in east London and Suffolk.
