Fix It First: Repair and Maintenance for the Indian Home

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A repair manual written for the way Indian homes actually fail: a dripping pillar tap, a fan that hums and will not start, a geyser that trips the MCB, seepage on a monsoon wall, a mixer grinder that smells hot, a door that swells in July and sticks. Forty faults, each with the diagnosis first, then the fix, then a clear line saying when to stop and call a licensed electrician or plumber. Rameshwar Prasad worked twenty two years as a maintenance engineer and writes like it: no enthusiasm, just sequence. Every job lists the tools by their Indian shop names and the part by the size you ask for, so you come back from the hardware market with the right thing. Printed on 100 gsm uncoated paper, heavier than usual for a paperback because this book gets opened with dirty hands and propped against a wall. Wire bound so it lies flat and folds back to a single page while you work.

• 40 faults, diagnosis before repair, with a clear stop and call line for each
• Tools and parts named the way the hardware shop names them
• 100 gsm uncoated, no show through, survives being handled and propped open
• Twin loop wire binding, folds back 360 degrees to one page
• Printed on FSC certified pulp with vegetable based inks
• No lamination, no foil, no plastic cover, no glued spine