Download or read book The Home Book written by Glen Martin and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeowner maintenance reference manual including 380 residential workmanship guidelines covering conditions and maintenance for topics including: floors and ceilings; roofs and gutters; foundations and basements; interior/exterior components; grounds; utility systems; and walls. Homeowner and builder maintenance responsibilities are stated along with the performance guideline and additional information for each topic. Green home construction is also covered.
Download or read book Home Performance Diagnostics the Guide to Advanced Testing written by Corbett Lunsford and published by the Building Performance Workshop. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: Every performance test for completing a home energy audit. If you're a professional in today's fast-evolving industry of high performance construction and retrofits, then you've probably found yourself wondering a few things: Who can show me how to run that test? How do I get the most out of the equipment I own? Why do the tests work, and how do I explain them? What quality control methods should I use? Which tools will make my job faster and easier? With this guide, experienced and new diagnosticians alike will get step-by-step details on advanced testing, complete with best practices, important concepts and pitfalls, ways to present data to the client, Step-By-Step photographs, and time-saving tips, plus quiz questions for each diagnostic!
Download or read book Nursing Home Federal Requirements written by James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The exhibit section contains forms used by surveyors to gather data during the survey visit. Visually, the format makes the regulations easy to read. If nursing home staff used the book to prepare for a survey, they would be well prepared." Marcia Flesner, PhD, RN, MHCA University of Missouri-Columbia From Doody's Review The Federal government, together with more than 50 advocacy groups, has spent the past 40 years writing and refining the rules and guidelines in this manual. This book presents the latest federal guidelines and protocols used by federal surveyors in certifying facilities for participation in Medicare and Medicaid funding. It is an essential resource for long-term care facilities to have on hand to be ready for a survey at any time. It provides information straight from CMS's Internet-Only Manual-in print and at your fingertips for easy access. Divided into four accessible and user-friendly parts, this manual includes: Federal requirements and interpretive guidelines Rules for conducting the survey Summary of the requirements for long-term care facilities and surveyors CMS forms commonly used by surveyors This newly updated and revised edition spans every aspect and service of a nursing home and represents the latest requirements to ensure that outstanding quality assurance and risk management programs are in place. New to This Edition: Section on how to use manual Summarization of federal requirements Updated definitions of Medicare and Medicaid Compliance requirements with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 SNF/Hospice requirements when SNF serves hospice patients SNF-based home health agencies Life safety code requirements Changes in SNF provider status Surveyor qualifications standards Management of complaints and incidents New medical director guidelines
Download or read book COVID 19 a Guide to Home Healthcare written by Matthew Croughan and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing Home Federal Requirements 8th Edition written by James E. Allen and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book A Survival Guide for Buying a Home written by Sid Davis and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying a home is a complex process that involves a delicate balance of financial, emotional, and practical factors. This essential resource helps readers come out on top, revealing the best strategies for finding and buying a new home -- while saving money every step of the way.Whether looking for a house, condo, co-op, or manufactured home, readers will learn how to:* Hire the right agent* determine financial limits* develop relationships with banks and other potential lenders* evaluate communities* get prequalified or preapproved for a mortgage* negotiate the best price and terms* and more.There's also a checklist of the 15 costliest mistakes homebuyers make -- and how to avoid every one of them -- plus crucial information on how to sell a home. Owning a home is the American dream, but achieving it can be a nightmarish experience. With this vital information and great strategies, readers will not only find their dream home faster, they will do everything right to move in quickly and confidently!"
Download or read book Guidelines for Design and Construction of Residential Health Care and Support Facilities written by Facility Guidelines Institute and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards to guide the design and construction of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living settings, and related outbased service facilities, including adult day care
Download or read book The Log Home Maintenance Guide A Field Guide for Identifying Preventing and Solving Problems written by Gary Schroeder and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to diagnosing and repairing the unique maintenance issued faced by log home owners.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Buying a Home written by Peter Richmond and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In real estate, it's a buyer's market—and here is the buyer's bible . . . Buying a home is the single most important financial move in most people's lives. This book covers a variety of topics including inspecting, evaluating, negotiating, financing, contracts, and legal issues. It also breaks down the roles of the key players and what these professionals, agents, brokers, and inspectors are responsible for—and when to go it alone. The thorough advice, covering everything from buying houses at auctions to what neighborhood to live in, will provide reassurance for every soon–to–be homeowner. • A necessary tool for those who plan to buy homes and even current homeowners in order to keep up with an ever changing market • Will be published in time for spring, when most people start looking into buying new homes • Covers a broad range of buying options and homeowner's needs
Download or read book How Your House Works written by Charlie Wing and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated and highly illustrated guide to understanding how just about everything in your house works! The revised and updated third edition of How Your House Works is a hands-on guide that gives you the low-down on why your faucet is leaking, your dishwasher is overflowing, or your furnace is on the fritz. This comprehensive book is your reference to virtually everything in your house with richly illustrated explanations of electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows. This must-have book answers most questions homeowners face when repairs are needed or when a new house or addition is in your future. How Your House Works is filled with easy-to-understand illustrations that show how things should be put together and how they function. The book also highlights issues outside the house as well as clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating. Using the illustrations and the author’s clear explanations might save you the expense of calling a professional. This invaluable guide: Offers a colorful resource to home electrical systems, HVAC, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors and windows, sustainability, and much more Includes easy-to-follow information for troubleshooting problems Contains dozens of new full-color illustrations Presents new chapters on solar power and smart home technologies Helps homeowners save money on many common household repairs Written for homeowners with little or no knowledge of home maintenance or repair, How Your House Works is your illustrated and updated guide to understanding how appliances, electrical, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and more work!
Download or read book A Guide For Nursing Home Social Workers written by Elise M. Beaulieu and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the changing face of nursing homes, charts and doumentation, legal auspices, screening, transfer & discharge, policies, surveys, diagnosis & treatment, ethics, community liaisons, problems and solutions, standardised forms.
Download or read book The Everything Guide to a Healthy Home written by Kimberly Button and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the air in our houses is up to five times more polluted than air outside--so it's clear that our homes have become fundamentally unhealthy places. But there is hope! With this guide, you'll learn the immediate changes that make your home--and your life--healthier and safer by neutralizing the toxins, radiation, and chemicals that threaten the average house. Inside you'll find: Instant-fix checklists that will immediately make your home, workplace, and school safer Room-by-room explorations of the most common and avoidable threats Special tips designed to protect vulnerable infants, children, and pets With detailed checklists that are ranked by the projected health impact of making the fix, you'll be able to make real, concrete improvements to the health of your home. Whether you make every change or just a targeted few, the decisive steps in this guide will result in a safer, more comfortable, and more livable home for you and your family.
Download or read book A Parent s Guide to a Peaceful Home written by Patricia Braxton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents serve as their children's first teachers. What they learn at home helps them build on their learning and education at school. In A Parent's Guide to a Peaceful Home, author Patricia Braxton provides a guide to helping parents manage their home in a peaceful, loving way in order to ensure success for their children at home and at school. This handbook presents Braxton's TAD (Toward Affective Development) model, which gives practical advice to help parents teach their children responsibility, respect, discipline, and other positive character traits. It also teaches parents how to relate to each other properly and how to affect change from within. Through TAD, Braxton works to change the face of families in a positive way. The steps detailed in A Parent's Guide to a Peaceful Home can facilitate an atmosphere where love, compassion, respect, and other virtues are taught by example and reinforced to produce a lasting, peaceful home.
Download or read book Your Guide to Finding a New Home After 50 written by Peter Keers and published by Cantissimo Senior Living. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we age, it seems a “sense of place” takes on greater significance. In our younger years, we may have moved around after leaving the family home. That nomadic pattern, perhaps, was symbolic of our search for a path in life. Once settling into a consistent lifestyle, we found ourselves living for longer stretches of time in one location or another. Then comes the time in later life when for various reasons, we consider (or are forced to consider) yet another relocation. This Cantissimo Senior Living eBook looks from various angles at moving after age 50. Whether you want to “age in place” in your current residence, desire a new home, or are compelled by circumstances to move, this eBook will help as you ponder the pros and cons in the decision-making process.
Download or read book The Home Builder s Guide for Earthquake Design written by Shapiro, Okino, Hom, and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing home feasibility guide for local decisionmakers in the rural Ozarks written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nolo s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home written by Ilona Bray and published by Nolo. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no place like home! Ready to say goodbye to your landlord? With help from Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, you’ll not only find the right house for you, you’ll have fun doing it. Learn how to: • research the local market and listings • choose a house, condo, co-op, or townhouse • create a realistic budget • qualify for a loan you can truly afford • borrow a down payment from friends or family • protect yourself with inspections and insurance, and • negotiate and close the deal successfully. You’ll find insights from numerous real estate professionals—agents, attorneys, mortgage specialists, a home inspector, and more. It’s like having a team of experts by your side! Plus, read real-life stories of over 20 first-time homebuyers.
