The Complete Photo Guide To Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)

The Complete Photo Guide To Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)
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The Complete Photo Guide To Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)
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Author: Black & Decker
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2004-09-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 598

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Book Review: black and decker complete photo guide to home repair
Summary: 5 Stars

I am an old carpenter/repairer/remodeler/preservationist. This book stands out with talent and efficiency, rendering some of the better and best ways to accomplish 350 home repair tasks. I wish I had read it when I was 20 years old. I would have been quite a bit better at what I was doing than I am.

Summary of The Complete Photo Guide To Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2300 Photos (Black & Decker)

This best-seller has just gotten better. We've added a CD-ROM that walks you through several landscape design and construction projects. Filled with over 2000 color photographs, The Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is unrivaled among home repair books. This refreshing and accessible guide offers more than 500 pages of the most reliable, up-to-date information available on exterior and interior do-it-yourself home repairs, including a complete section on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC).

Top-quality color photography, detailed tools and materials lists, hundreds of helpful tips, and modern, time-saving techniques put The Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair in a class by itself. This remarkable book is, quite simply, brighter, more exciting, and more helpful than any comparable book on the market.

Highlights:

**Presents over 2000 clear, color photographs for quality that is unparalleled in the how-to publishing industry. Competing titles use primarily illustrations and line drawings.

**Includes over 300 of the most important home repair projects you're likely to face.

**Provides complete tools and 7 materials lists for all projects.

**Features troubleshooting charts that let you pinpoint the cause of common problems and their solutions.

**Includes maintenance checklists for seasonal and annual inspections.

**Includes extensive techniques and safety sections with valuable advice from home repair contractors and safety experts.

**Uses a convenient, self-referencing format with numbered steps and detailed, labeled photographs that guide readers first to the general topic, then through the detailed steps of each specific project.

**Contains projects that have been carefully researched and checked by home improvement professionals.

**Demonstrates top-quality, affordable tools and materials recommended by home repair experts.


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

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