--- product_id: 70006379 title: "How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home (RSMeans)" price: "S/.45" currency: PEN in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/70006379-how-your-house-works-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-maintaining store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home (RSMeans) **Price:** S/.45 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home (RSMeans) - **How much does it cost?** S/.45 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/70006379-how-your-house-works-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-maintaining) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 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! Review: Great for learners - adults and even children - The illustrations in this book, and the associated text, are fantastic. If you know 'know nothing' about how your house works and want to start learning, this is the book I recommend. Sophisticated enough that you get important nuances - like how plumbing is constructed to avoid siphoning water out the traps - but simple enough that you can grasp what is happening easily. There are also tips for simple repairs or things to check before calling a repair person. I know a fair bit about home repair, but I found myself often learning useful things as I read it. On related note, if you have a child who is interested in home repair or construction or just how things work, this book makes it much easier to explain how/why things work in the home. Toilets, sinks, wells, light switches, etc. Although it is written for adults, most of the content is understandable by a child with an adult assisting in the explanation. I bought the book to read with my son, and he has greatly enjoyed it. Review: Excellent Illustrations and Explainers - This book, "How Your House Works", is excellent for first-time homeowners and anyone who didn't grow up learning plumbing, electrical, etc. There is a full-color illustration on every page of the book, along with text that explains how each thing in your house works. While it doesn't go into detail on how to fix every single thing that might go wrong with each part of your house, it does tell you "what to look for" before calling a plumber or electrician for service. I like that it explains the name of every part of something like a toilet, so when I talk to the plumber, I can describe the problem more accurately by using the correct terms rather than just say "the thingy that goes up and down", which makes it harder for the plumber to understand the problem and give me a quote for service. There is even a chapter on outdoor equipment that explains lawnmowers, chain saw, etc. My one suggestion/request is for the author to include more information about pool equipment, beyond the page on pool pump and solar heating. I would love an entire chapter about how an inground pool/spa works, and all of the different pumps and valves that go along with it. (Or maybe write a second book just about that topic!) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #337,368 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #535 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,377 Reviews | ## Images ![How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home (RSMeans) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kktO65reL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for learners - adults and even children *by C***P on January 17, 2020* The illustrations in this book, and the associated text, are fantastic. If you know 'know nothing' about how your house works and want to start learning, this is the book I recommend. Sophisticated enough that you get important nuances - like how plumbing is constructed to avoid siphoning water out the traps - but simple enough that you can grasp what is happening easily. There are also tips for simple repairs or things to check before calling a repair person. I know a fair bit about home repair, but I found myself often learning useful things as I read it. On related note, if you have a child who is interested in home repair or construction or just how things work, this book makes it much easier to explain how/why things work in the home. Toilets, sinks, wells, light switches, etc. Although it is written for adults, most of the content is understandable by a child with an adult assisting in the explanation. I bought the book to read with my son, and he has greatly enjoyed it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Illustrations and Explainers *by A***R on June 8, 2020* This book, "How Your House Works", is excellent for first-time homeowners and anyone who didn't grow up learning plumbing, electrical, etc. There is a full-color illustration on every page of the book, along with text that explains how each thing in your house works. While it doesn't go into detail on how to fix every single thing that might go wrong with each part of your house, it does tell you "what to look for" before calling a plumber or electrician for service. I like that it explains the name of every part of something like a toilet, so when I talk to the plumber, I can describe the problem more accurately by using the correct terms rather than just say "the thingy that goes up and down", which makes it harder for the plumber to understand the problem and give me a quote for service. There is even a chapter on outdoor equipment that explains lawnmowers, chain saw, etc. My one suggestion/request is for the author to include more information about pool equipment, beyond the page on pool pump and solar heating. I would love an entire chapter about how an inground pool/spa works, and all of the different pumps and valves that go along with it. (Or maybe write a second book just about that topic!) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Diy repairs with how to do pictures *by E***. on December 12, 2025* Gift book for diy home owner was well received. ## Frequently Bought Together - How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home (RSMeans) - 100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know: How to Save Money, Solve Problems and Improve Your Home (Family Handyman 100) - Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement, 3rd Updated Edition: Proven Money-Saving Projects, 3,400 Photos & Illustrations (Creative Homeowner) 608-Page Resource with 325 Step-by-Step DIY Projects --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/70006379-how-your-house-works-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-maintaining](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/70006379-how-your-house-works-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-maintaining) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-05-27*