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Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000 Photos |  | Author: Editors of creative Publishing
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Category: Book
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Rating:  70 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 1589234170
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.7
EAN: 9781589234178
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
Got a problem with grout? Open The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair (to page 98) and watch your tiling worries dissolve before the simple beauty of photography. Black & Decker has anticipated your every question and problem with interior, exterior, and home systems repairs, and detailed the solutions in just over 500 pages. In no other human endeavor is a visual guide so important as home repair (well, maybe brain surgery), so this is a crucial aid to the handyperson. Easy-to-find sections on floors, insulation, roofing, chimneys, water heaters, wall switches, air conditioning, and much more are well-designed, brilliantly illustrated, and carefully outlined with step-by-step instructions from masters. The photos in particular are extremely valuable, offering many different views (sometimes even exploded) of the operation in question, and always showing just enough to communicate without overwhelming the reader with too much detail. These alone would be worth the price of the book, but the written explanations and instructions are also very helpful, offering tools, materials lists, and hints that wouldn't occur to the amateur. The book finishes with a maintenance schedule to help you keep repairs from becoming serious, and the end papers have conversion charts and tables that you'll use time and again. If you can't have Norm the master carpenter over to help you fix your old house, The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is the next best thing. --Rob Lightner
Product Description
Bigger and better than ever The two previous editions of the book known by home improvement retailers as “Big Red” sold nearly 600,000 copies. This new edition features a larger portrait format for better visual clarity, and incorporates a new page layout style. But all the features that made the original America’s best-selling “bible” of home repair are still present here—thousands of color photographs and detailed step-by-step directions. The third edition also includes more than 30 projects not found in the original edition, as well as more than 300 new photos.
Book Description
The new edition of a home repair classic. The most up-to-date, complete, and useful guide to home repair a homeowner can have. With more than 350 projects and 2300 photos, virtually every home repair challenge is covered. New in this major revision to an all-time classic best-seller are important chapters on: choosing and using hand and power tools; diagnosing and correcting home safety and health problems; and creating and maintaining a home workshop. We've made the best home repair book even better! More than 300 new photos. Information on how to choose and use the latest hand and power tools. Updated to reflect the latest building code changes. Shows how to test for radon, lead, asbestos and water contaminants. Workshop section includes helpful reference tables and charts for hardware, lumber, and other building materials. Includes helpful building projects for workshops, including building utility shelves, workbenches, and sawhorses. |
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 Great book November 13, 2009
Paul Wardwell
I Searched a lot for the right DIY book and this was the best option I found. I liked the pictures and the advice. I thought it very thorough. Of coruse things don't always go as easy or smooth as discussed in the book, but that is hardly the book's fault.
Great Reference October 27, 2009
rockin robin (avon lake, ohio)
Valuable step-by-step instruction, and listing of materials needed for repair or project. Great for the beginner
Awesome!!! October 3, 2009
Rich (Central NJ)
Bought this book at the same time with the home improvement. Love the Black & Decker series....SO MANY pictures with STEP-BY-STEP instructions make it very easy to follow.
Some other books tend to leave key elements out, this book covers most of them with very helpful tips. I've read this from cover to cover, have so much more knowledge than I did before. This book is an excellent reference book as well.
B&D Home Repair Book September 20, 2009
BG (FL)
This book is one of the very best home repair books I have owned in the last 40 years. IMHO it is superior in construction, e.g. binding, cover, paper quality, etc. and in subject matter, descriptions and photos. This book is 1st class for a quick reference for just about any repair/improvement for a homeowner, DIY person, or an artisan needing some advice outside their specific trade. I'v had all the Reader's Digest, Home Depot, Time Life, etc., etc., books over the years and this is by far the best I've seen for everything in one volume. You won't be dissapointed.
Excellent! September 15, 2009
donna stanton
Excellent product and fast shipping. The book even had the updated instructions on the repair of our newer toilet.
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