Description
Manual #1 in the Fragile Shelters series E-book – REVISED/UPDATED
This revised/updated manual contains eleven (11) chapters – three (3) more than the original manual. All chapters contain updated and informative content. This is a homeowners guide for preparing, protecting and renovating their home with numerous recommendations pertaining to both the challenges our homes and its occupants will be facing in this new Climate Age.
It contains the following chapters:
- Chapter One: HEAT – Understanding the impact from excessive heat on our homes and interior occupied spaces. Including methods and suggestions to protect your living environment.
- Chapter Two: FIRE & SMOKE – Realizing the impact of a wildfire, how it affects our landscape and home along with the effects upon the occupants within a home.
- Chapter Three: WIND – An underrated climate extreme that leaves long-term effects and massive replacement costs along with extensive upheaval for residents of any home.
- Chapter Four: WATER – The largest single extreme climate issue with respect to home insurance claims. What to do and how to protect your home from flooding.
- Chapter Five: EXTREME PRECIPITATION – A new chapter that singles out the climate crisis has increased extremes in snow, hail and ice and how they affect every home.
- Chapter Six: AIR QUALITY – We are what we breathe and this chapter informs on the effects of poor indoor air, how to protect, secure and evaluate your home’s indoor air quality.
- Chapter Seven: DISASTER PREPARATION – There are numerous ways within reasonable cost to prepare your home for any climate crisis event. Here you learn what they are.
- Chapter Eight: HOME GENERATION – Access to or a permanent installation, a generator that can support your home and maintain a safe lifestyle hgas become a necessity. Here you will find out how to do this.
- Chapter Nine: HOME INSURANCE – This new chapter discusses the ever evolving issues of obtaining proper insurance to protect your home, the kind of extras to buy and the issues your insurance company is facing.
- Chapter Ten: BUILDING TECHNOLOGY – This chapter looks at some options, methods of home building andd the effort it takes to make your home more climate secure.
- Chapter Eleven: GLOSSARY OF CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY – The various words and phrases now used can be difficult to underatnd. In this new seciton we explain in simple terms, some of the most common words and statements.
Authors – Cam Allen and Paul Zammit
