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from: Creative Publishing International
List Price: $34.95Amazon.com's Price: $23.07 You Save: $11.88 (34%)as of 09/02/2010 11:08 EDT
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 643.7
Fabric Type: 9781589231818
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Region Code: 598
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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:
The new edition of a home repair classic.
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is the most up-to-date, complete, and useful guide to home repair a homeowner can have.
With more than 350 projects and 2500 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 500 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.
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.
Average Rating: 
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This book is as necessary to the handyman as the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book is to the amateur cook.
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This book is pretty technical and not for the person who is really bad at understanding carpentry concepts. The book is sturdy and easy to understand too. It would get 5 stars if there weren't so much overlap with the Home Improvement guide--the two should be better coordinated to avoid redundancies. Between this and the B&D Home Improvement book, pretty much everything you need to know for basic homeowner do-it-yourself projects and repairs is covered. I've used it several times in a few months, ... Read More
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It seemed like a good book, but the first few projects were about ripping out floors. There was a whole section on ripping out plumbing. As I looked through the book more, I realized that over 90% of the projects I would personally not do. I returned the book and bought the other Black and Decker book, "Homeowner Basics". Homeowner Basics had actual projects and ideas that I would actually consider doing.
The one good thing about this book is that even if you do not plan on doing the ... Read More
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I needed a more up to date book to replace mine from the late 70's. I chose this based on other reviews and overall value. It is more comprehensive with great photos and covers the additional tasks I'm getting into with my mother-in-law's 65-year old house repairs and maintenance.
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Bought as a wedding present from the couple's wedding registry. Arrived promptly and in excellent condition-looks like a helpful book.
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