How Hard Can It Be?

Whether you're a beginner, a first-time homeowner, or an apartment-dweller who's fed up with a lazy landlord, this savvy Tool Girl provides the courage and the know-how you'll need to conquer over forty household repairs and projects - and she makes you laugh along the way.

Unleash your inner tool girl with the help of TV's first lady of home improvement, Mag Ruffman. This licensed building contractor employs her sassy sense of humor and characteristic wit to empower readers to take home repair into their own capable hands.

Whether you're a beginner, a first-time homeowner, or an apartment-dweller who's fed up with a lazy landlord, this savvy Tool Girl provides the courage and the know-how you'll need to conquer over forty household repairs and projects - and she makes you laugh along the way.

Library Journal

As successful comedians have previously proven, home repairs can be funny. Actress, building contractor, and TV show host Ruffman here takes the stage with renovation and repair projects. Using humor to motivate, she covers indoor maintenance issues, selected general repairs, and some home improvement, with helpful sidebar tips throughout. Unfortunately, the photos generally feature the author posing rather than illustrating a project. Most hapless homeowners want a how-to book that helps them find solutions quickly. Boasting silly chapter titles but no index, this book does not meet that need. Funny-yes; motivational-yes; helpful-not so much. Stick with Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual, the bible of DIY repair books. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Mag Ruffman is an author, television producer, writer, actress, and building contractor. She spent seven years as Olivia Dale on Disney’s beloved Avonlea and five seasons in a tool belt as host, creator, and producer of the fix-it classic A Repair to Remember and the workshop series Anything I Can Do, which now airs worldwide. She also created and hosted the groundbreaking relationship show Men On Women for W Network in Canada. In addition to How Hard Can It Be?, Mag also wrote the Canadian bestseller We're All in This Together, a conversation about life with Steve Smith, creator of the character Red Green.

Mag’s weblog and quirky home repair videos can be found online at www.toolgirl.com, and a searchable database of her syndicated newspaper articles is available at www.homeenvy.com. Her weekly newspaper column appears across Canada in Sun Media newspapers.

Mag is also national spokesperson for Habitat for Humanity Canada and in her spare time she welds, snowshoes, attempts to write music, and geeks out on her macs.