Foreword

New Homes represent large investments - the largest many people ever make. As all investments require safekeeping and protection, this booklet was developed by The Canadian New Home Warranty Programs to help you protect your new home and to guide you in its maintenance.

This booklet was carefully prepared to help in the development of a systematic and workable home care and maintenance programme which, when in place, should ensure trouble free living.

Matters of "Warranty" are not discussed in any detail in this booklet. For details on Warranty coverages, please refer to the Limited Warrany Certificate provided to you. Your builder or your provincial New Home Warranty Program would welcome any enquiry to clarify Warranty issues.

There are some 3,000 items in a new home and a general working knowledge of some of the more important of these is necessary. lt will enable you to understand more fully the results of heat, cold, humidity, expansion and contraction - conditions which affect new homes. In the following pages we discuss some common items in new home care.

Throughout this manual we use the term 'home'. While single family homes may immediately come to mind, we intend 'home' to also mean occupancies in plexes, townhouses and multi family buildings.