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9780060959845
"[T]heir advice is practical and relies on tools you're likely to have around the house....As the economy limps along and the unemployment figures shoot up daily, a growing number of previously well-off Americans may not have the luxury of making these types of calculations anymore. Hiring a service worker may simply not be in the budget. The boom times of the '90s may have offered homeowners a chance to master the ego-building art of planking a deck, but the recession of '03 may force us to learn the humbling tedium of toilet repair, in which case Dare to Repair couldn't be timelier."Sussman, Julie is the author of 'Dare to Repair A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Home', published 2002 under ISBN 9780060959845 and ISBN 0060959843.
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