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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
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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...Black & Decker has anticipated your every question and problem with interior, exterior, and home systems repairs... -- Rob Lightner, Amazon.com
...For each project they provide detailed how-to instructions, complete tools and materials lists, helpful hints, and troubleshooting charts... -- Book News, Inc., 1999, Portland, OR --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
...For each project they provide detailed how-to instructions, complete tools and materials lists, helpful hints, and troubleshooting charts... -- Book News, Inc., 1999, Portland, OR --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for folks buying their first house,
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This review is from: Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Home Repair (Hardcover)
I bought this book right after I bought my first house (which was 12 years old at the time I moved in). I have owned the house for 2 years now and have owned a copy of this book for the same time.1. I had no idea how the systems (ac, plumbing, various kithcen appliences, etc.) of the house worked when I moved in. This book gives a clear overview of the various systems and how they work. I could easily figure out the items that needed a maintenance schedule. I was also able to talk to various service providers (plumbers, electrical contractors, etc.) meanigfully as I was armed with the appropriate information. 2. I was struggling finding the right tools that I needed to have for various "do it yourself" repairs. This book clearly lists the tools that need to be used for every repair with pictures. You will never be lost in "Home Depot" again. 3. I have had a few unplanned repairs that needed to be made. I was easily able to look up the index to go to the relevant section and carry out the repair (after a couple of visits to Home Depot to get appropriate tools). This book was worth every penny. Anyone moving into a new house should have a copy of this book with him or her.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
This review is from: Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000 Photos (Hardcover)
gift for boyfriend, shipped so quickly. received like the next day. Doesn't say "use your Black and Hammer this" or "Black and Hammer that." Saw it at Chapters and it was half price, if not less, with free shipping! Excellent value!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Huge,colorful,helpful book!!,
By ellafan (MI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Home Repair (Hardcover)
Having just retired,I decided it would behoove me(and my budget)to learn how to fix things around the house myself,instead of paying someone else to do it.I know I won't be tackling major projects,but if I did,the info on how to complete the project would surely be in this terrific book.I was overwhelmed at the size of the book,initially,but as I read through it,I realized that each page contains a step-by-step photo sequence from the beginning of the job,to the end.Wonderful for someone such as I who has a difficult time remembering "righty-tighty,lefty-loosey." I think this massive book, crammed full of top-notch advice is going to save me a bundle in home repairs.So I will be able to spend more money at my other home...amazon.
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