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| The Complete Photo Guide to Home Improvement
is the most up-to-date book of its type available. Unlike other
books, which blend home repair with improvement projects, this
book is devoted entirely to step-by-step remodeling projects
designed to improve the livability and value of your home. It
features the very latest tools, building materials, and construction
techniques to ensure professional results every time. Check
out the reasons why every homeowner needs this book: Complete
step-by-step directions for more than 200 of the most popular,
money saving improvement projects. Offers extensive sections
of basic how-to skills - including wiring, plumbing and rough
carpentry. Includes a wide range of projects, from simple window
and door replacement, to extensive demolition and renovation
projects. Includes comprehensive chapters on remodeling bathrooms,
kitchens, and finishing attics and basements. |
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| The first edition of Home Improvement 1-2-3
quickly became a workbench classic. The new edition—with 340
projects, 3,500 color photographs, and more than 100 illustrations,
charts, and graphs—offers up-to-the-minute solutions for homeowners
tackling home repair, maintenance, and improvement. Chapters
cover painting, wallpaper, plumbing, electrical system, walls
and ceilings, flooring, doors, windows, cabinets, shelves, countertops,
insulation, weatherproofing, exterior maintenance, heating,
ventilation, and air-conditioning. Clear, concise instructions
accompanied by detailed how-to photographs ensure your success
no matter what your skill level. Every project offers tips,
shortcuts and advice on buying and using tools and materials,
working safely, avoiding common mistakes, saving time and money,
and developing skills. Home Improvement 1-2-3 also reviews new
tools, technology, materials, and installation techniques |
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| Remodeling Kitchens contains all the information
needed to make your kitchen into the attractive and functional
room your household deserves. From practical advice about design
to professional building techniques you can do, you will find
everything you need. And you will save a great deal of money
by making wise decisions and doing some or most of the work
yourself. This book features more than 500 full-color photos
that go along with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.
Remodeling Kitchens is loaded with helpful tips from professionals
and also the latest information on what tools and materials
you'll need. |
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| Home Repair From Library Journal This is
a wide-ranging guide to home repairs written for the homeowner
with limited do-it-yourself experience. It begins with the essentials
of tool selection and then provides up-to-date coverage of construction
materials and hardware items. Much of the remainder of the book
is divided evenly between interior and exterior projects with
briefer--but still valuable--coverage accorded basic plumbing,
heating, and electrical repairs. The book also touches on less
commonplace topics such as steel stud construction, pressed
metal ceilings, and various home security products. The reassuringly
written text takes pains to identify work that is best left
to the more highly skilled. The many simple color drawings make
the narrative descriptions especially easy to follow. Recommended
for most public libraries. |
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| The Complete DIY Manual. This complete revamping
of what is perhaps the champion of do-it-yourself guides, surveying
almost everything under your roof and some of what lies beyond,
has managed to retain all of its classic virtues without adding
unnecessary pages. Rewritten, redesigned and newly illustrated,
the upgraded edition also includes more color, improving the
legibility of its explanatory drawings. New materials, techniques
and tools are examined and explained with Reader's Digest 's
customary clarity and thoroughness. For example, a chapter on
electricity discusses track lighting, ceiling fans and telephones;
the consumer who wonders what's going on inside his phone can
see exactly what it looks like and consider how to deal with
minor adjustments and repairs. The volume is also geared to
the new breed of homeowners who admit to some degree of manual
incompetence. They can learn how to deal with professionals
without feeling intimidated and how to untangle the proper codes
and regulations for major work. $400,000 ad/promo. Copyright
1991 Reed Business Information, Inc |
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| Home Improvement for Dummies. The best of
nine For Dummies home improvement guides for the price of one
Sales of home improvement products are at an all-time high,
which means that today's do-it-yourselfers need more help than
ever with decorating, remodeling, plumbing, carpentry, painting,
and wallpapering, and other household projects. Pulling together
the best, most useful content from nine existing For Dummies
guides, Home Improvement All-in-One For Dummies offers these
consumers a one-stop resource packed with up-to-the-minute solutions
for home repair, maintenance, and improvement. They'll find
over 700 pages of clear, easy-to-follow instructions and authoritative
advice on how to remodel a kitchen or bathroom, fix a leaky
faucet, install new windows and doors, build stairways, make
better use of their space, and much, much more |
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