The Winter Home — 20 Winter Guides

Twenty guides for the season that costs homeowners the most — the prep that stops the damage, and the repairs for when winter gets there first.

Inside, in four parts:

Winter plumbing — Keep your pipes from freezing · The water heater fall tune-up · Winterize an irrigation system · The sump pump winter check · Find your main shutoff & burst-pipe plan.

Drafts & insulation — Weatherstrip & sweep exterior doors · Attic air-sealing & insulation top-up · Ice dams: prevent them, remove them safely · Pre-winter roof & flashing check · Indoor humidity: the winter setting.

Heating — Why your furnace won't turn on · Why your heating bill jumped · Heat pump in winter: ice, defrost & "emergency heat" · One room is always cold · Radiators & boilers: bleed, pressure, banging pipes.

Winter safety — Carbon monoxide at home · Space heaters & tripping breakers · Fireplace & chimney before the first fire · Snow blower won't start & winter storage · Power-outage plan for a cold house.

109 pages in one file. Every guide has labeled diagrams, a real cost comparison, a troubleshooting table, a clear "when to stop and call a pro" section, and a printable checklist as its last page. Temperatures and measurements in both Fahrenheit/Celsius and feet/meters, so it works wherever you are.

Instant PDF download — print it for the garage or keep it on your phone with the parts in hand. Yours to keep, no subscription.

Bought one at a time these twenty guides are $120. As the four room kits they're $56. The Winter Home is $39, and it arrives as a single file.

Both libraries together — all 44 guides, 226 pages — are The Complete Library, $79.