✓30 symptom-organized chapters covering the air conditioner, furnace, ducts, dryer vent, plumbing, appliances, drainage, lawn, roof, crawlspace, septic system, and more.
✓The Safety Card with the first law and five firm stopping points: gas, electrical panel, refrigerant, roof, and sewage.
✓Before You Call the Man with six questions to ask and three checks to make first: power, filter, and protector.
✓What It Should Cost with estimated 2026 prices for roughly thirty common jobs—the part, the service visit, and the new machine side by side.
✓The Season Card for March, June, September, and December in the Delta, plus a note for northern homeowners to slide the schedule one month.
✓The Freeze Card, Dryer Card, and Tool Wall with about twenty useful household tools and an estimated starter total of roughly $150.
✓The Machine Register, Breaker Map, water-shutoff pages, repair records, family pages, and handover pages—made to be completed in pencil and kept with the house.
+ A free 1-page Quick-Start Checklist — the whole system at a glance, ready to print.