Offers advice on identifying, evaluating, and restoring an old house, and describes how to repair different parts of a house, including roofs, windows, floors, staircases, and fireplaces.

In the repair and reconstruction efforts that followed Hurricane Andrew, owners of damaged houses had opportunities to modify their houses to protect them from future flood damage. One effective method of protecting a house from flooding is elevating the habitable areas of the house above the flood level. Almost all single-family homes in Miami-Dade County are constructed with reinforced masonry block walls on a slab-on-grade foundation. Houses of...