Site Work Completes Rehab Guide Series

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HUD has released the ninth and final volume in its series of guidebooks, The Rehab Guide: Site Work. This volume contains an overview of site rehabilitation, including porches/decks, driveways, underground wells, and landscaping. The guidebook's easy-to-read chapters include detailed illustrations and photographs.

Site Work explains how to repair moisture-damaged wood decks, porches, fences, railings, and stairs, as well as asphalt and concrete driveways, walks, patios, and masonry walls. The guidebook provides information on the advantages and disadvantages of various repair techniques and replacement materials and examines underground construction, including wells, onsite wastewater treatment, water and sewer lines, and underground storage tanks. Site Work also describes landscape care, including how to make trees and plants energy efficient and sustainable. The appendix provides a list of professional associations and research centers.

The Rehab Guide series is part of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing mandate to inform the design and construction industry about state-of-the-art materials and innovative practices in housing rehabilitation. New machinery, materials, technology, and techniques have helped the construction industry make great progress in meeting America's affordable housing needs. The series focuses on building technologies, materials, components, and techniques rather than projects such as adding a new room.

The complete set includes Site Work as well as Foundations; Exterior Walls; Roofs; Windows & Doors; Partitions, Ceilings, Floors & Stairs; Kitchens & Baths; Electrical/ Electronics; and HVAC/Plumbing. The spiral-bound rehab guides are written and presented in an easy-to-use format and can be stored in three-ring binders.

The Rehab Guide: Site Work and the previously released volumes in the series are available for $5 each from HUD USER. The entire 9-volume set can be purchased for $30. Use the order form.