Forbidden Fixes — 22 Home Repairs the Trades Would Rather Quote You For

Thirty-two years in attics and crawlspaces, written down.

Curt Ellis spent his working life going into other people's houses,

mostly in January, mostly after something had already gone wrong. Along

the way he watched homeowners get quoted four thousand dollars for

problems that cost sixty to fix. So he started writing things down.

Forbidden Fixes is 130 pages of the cheap repairs the trades would

rather quote you for — heat loss, drafts, attic heat, mold,

condensation, damp basements and crawlspaces. Every fix tells you what

it costs, how long it takes, exactly how to do it, and where it doesn't

work.

That last part is the one nobody else prints.

WHAT'S INSIDE

· 22 repairs, organized by what's going wrong in your house right now

· Materials, quantities, and real hardware store prices for every job

· Most fixes under fifty dollars. The three that cost more say so up front

· A chapter on what isn't worth your money, and why

· A chapter on when to stop and call somebody

INCLUDED

Four printable field cards: the leak walkthrough, the hardware store

list sorted by aisle, the fall and spring checklists, and the

symptom-to-chapter poster.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Homeowners with houses built before about 1990. If your house went up

after 2005 it's already sealed tight and most of this won't pay.

WHAT THIS ISN'T

Nothing in here replaces your furnace. Most of these repairs save small

amounts that add up over a winter. The ones that save a lot say so.

Nothing here touches gas lines or electrical panels — where a job

belongs to a licensed trade, the book says so and stops.

Instant download. PDF. Read it on your phone or print it and take it

to the garage.