11 Home Repairs You Can Get Done Free After 60 (Most People Never Ask)

11 Home Repairs You Can Get Done Free After 60 (Most People Never Ask) Donna's Home Book, sixty ways to a smaller bill and a house that's easier after 60 (your support keeps my small channel going), and a free chapter: donnafixes.com Most homeowners over sixty have paid out of pocket for a furnace, a roof patch or a set of front steps while a program down the road had a budget to do it for nothing. Donna, who kept four hundred Chicago apartments running for forty-one years, counts down eleven repairs that real programs may cover, from smoke alarms and grab bars to weatherization, lead pipe replacement, emergency furnace help, home repair grants and the USDA roof grant. You will leave with the program behind each repair, the one phone call that starts it, the questions to ask, and a sentence to write on your notepad before you dial 211. Eligibility depends on your income, your age and where you live, and most programs have waiting lists, so this is for the repair you can see coming, not the pipe that burst this morning. Nobody mails you a repair, so pick the one your house needs and make the call this week. 0:00 Intro 1:24 Free Smoke Alarms 2:18 Running Toilets and Dripping Taps 3:22 Grab Bars 4:42 Drafts and Attic Insulation 6:33 Lead Pipe Replacement 8:26 Front Steps, Rails and Ramps 10:15 Furnace Repair Help 12:13 Wiring, Plumbing and Water Heaters 14:01 Roof Repair Grants 15:49 Small Odd Jobs 17:36 The Repair You've Been Hiding