The most complete home improvement manual on the market, this newly updated edition of Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement offers thousands of photos, 800 drawings, and understandable, practical text.
Readers will find essential instruction on plumbing and electrical repairs, heating and cooling, roofing and siding, cabinets and countertops, and more.
Information is also provided on tools, materials, and basic skills, plus 325 step-by-step DIY projects with how-to photo sequences.
608 PAGES
DIY
INTERIOR-EXTERIOR
MASTERY
These great manuals cover the gamut of home needs from kitchen repairs to gardens. There are instructions guides for doing just about anything around the house we'd otherwise hire others to do. But there's a home-strong motto: If they learn to do it - so can we! " Dive in. Learn how it's done. Do it, too! Success! - SECURE
The ultimate guide to getting your life in order--with hundreds of practical and empowering ideas, projects, and tips--from America's most trusted lifestyle authority.
Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing--sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life--with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home.
288 PAGES
The Home Edit - Workbook
By Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin
The New York Times bestselling authors of The Home Edit and stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit help you organize every aspect of your life with the 52 home-editing challenges in this must-have workbook. Here are 52 challenges for every room of the home.
144 PAGES
The Home Edit - Life
By Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin
At home or on the go, you don't have to live like a minimalist to feel happy and calm. The Home Edit mentality is all about embracing your life--whether you're a busy mom, a roommate living with three, or someone who's always traveling for work. Set up a system that works for you.
256 PAGES
Black and Decker - The Book Of Home How-To
By Editors Of Cool Springs Press
Home How-To Home Repair provides colorful step-by-step photos and instruction for over 50 common household repairs : wiring,plumbing, all current with the latest codes--presented in a new, user-friendly design for today's homeowners.
144 PAGES
Kitchen Upgrades
By Fine Homebuilding
The pros take you through every step of remodeling process with over 300 photographs and illustrations. Included: identifying best layout; choosing best fixtures,materials; installing flooring, countertops, etc.
240 PAGES
Renovation has been the standard reference on the subject of renovation for 40 years. This creatively revised edition soundly addresses new realities of housing industry in 21st century, where homeowners are spending more cautiously.
656 PAGES
Black And Decker Codes For Homeowners
By Bruce A. Barker
Get those home projects you've been putting off done--and up to code. Many of the most common municipal standards are handily addressed in this edition. This special publication includes plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and construction.
240 PAGES
Ultimate Guide - Wiring - 8th Updated Edition
By Creative Homeowner Press, et al
Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Edition demystifies residential electrical systems with easy-to-understand language, step-by-step photography, and detailed illustrations. Homeowners will learn how their home's electrical system works.
304 PAGES
Yard and Garden Furniture provides 20 creative and useful outdoor projects - simple to sophisticated. These step-by-step instructions, photography, supply lists, cutting plans, and assembly views equip you for a wide variety of yard projects.
192 PAGES
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Above all, we may also want to seriously consider:
SAFETY FIRST
1. Since no one is a "natural" when it comes to Doing It Yourself, ALWAYS read instructions and pay attention to advice given along with them.
2. When handling materials like wood, metal, or harmful chemicals ALWAYS wear gloves designed for handling them. For example, it may not be wise to handle muriatic acid with regular work gloves. Wear gloves according to instructions designed for that.
3. When using power tools on chop saws, jigsaws, "ripsaws," table saws, etc.. or hanging materials, you may want to wear safety glasses built and designed well enough to protect your eyes from "un-announced" flying particles of sawdust, splinters, and fragments of the material you are working with. Better to keep cleaning them than to risk something landing in your eyes or worse. Keep the lenses clean with professionally recommended hypoallergenic solutions (fluids which are unlikely cause harm to your eyes).
4. When working overhead installing drywall, light fixtures, or otherwise working with anything above your head, ALWAYS wear clean, professionally recommended safety glasses.
5. ALWAYS look for safety directions and other advice before using a power tool, materials, and other things you're not familiar with. Know the risks. Pay attention to the WARNING info.
BE SAFE!
Do It Like The Professionals