Victorian House Manual (Rock Ian)(Pevná vazba)

An experienced Chartered Surveyor, Ian Rock has refurbished numerous older properties as well as designing and developing new houses. He has contributed articles on residential property issues to The Observer, and was formerly a Publisher with EMAP magazines and Associate with Countrywide Surveyors. He has previously written several Haynes books: 1930s House Manual, Home Extension Manual, Loft Conversion Manual, Period Property Manual, Build Your Own House and Home Buying and Selling Manual as well as the first edition of the Victorial House Manual.|Written in a friendly and accessible style, yet technically comprehensive. How your house was built – its age and history. How to add value. New edition includes updated rules and regulations and guidance on environmental issues. Packed with entertaining snippets – everything from anthrax in the walls and ingress of sewer rats to why cats are bad news for certain roofs. Each chapter is devoted to a key part of the house: roofs, walls, windows, ceilings, etc. In the comprehensive style of a Building Survey, with full-colour photos and some step-by-step projects for repairs. Defects, causes and solutions: how to identify, solve and prevent all common defects found in Victorian houses, with some common scams exposed|Many of Britain’s four million Victorian and Edwardian houses were shoddily built and often require ‘essential repairs’. Problems like rising damp, timber decay, bowed roofs and subsidenc
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