From Amazon
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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Review
...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
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Book 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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edition.
From the Publisher
Creative Publishing international , August 18, 1999
Finally...a tool for every home repair.
The latest addition to the Black & Decker Home Improvement Library may be the most important home improvement book to hit the marketplace in years. The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is a must-have "power tool" for any homeowner's collection. The 504-page book features 300 of the most common household repairs arranged into an easy-to-use format. But, the 2,000-plus photographs are what make this book so valuable to homeowners at all skill levels. Photos have always been a trademark of the Black & Decker library and this book provides more step-by-step photos than any other similar book on the market.
Page after page and chapter by chapter, this new guidebook helps do-it- yourselfers tackle all types of home repair projects. Whether it's patching holes in wallboard, repairing a broken toilet, inspecting and fixing a leaky roof or even replacing faulty electrical outlets, The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair will give you the know-how to get the job done right.
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair shows readers time-tested approaches and techniques used most by home repair experts. The book also includes a comprehensive appendix with information on safety and emergency repairs and a "repair locator." When time is not on your side, this quick reference section allows you to quickly locate the repair project and directions you need. Compiled by a team of home improvement experts, this book is the cornerstone title in the Black and Decker Home Improvement Library, a series that includes more than 50 books and over 7 1/2 million copies sold.
"Top-quality color photography, detailed tool and materials lists, hundred of helpful tips and modern, time-saving techniques put this book in a class by itself," said Bryan Trandem, executive editor of the Black and Decker Home Improvement Library. "This book is, quite simply, brighter, more exciting and more helpful than any comparable book on the market."
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Hardcover
edition.
From the Back Cover
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is the most useful, up-to-date home repair manual you can own. It represents the work of more than 100 writers, editors, artists, photographers - all leading professionals in the home repair publishing industry. Dozens of home improvements tradespeople - including master carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and other contractors - contributed their expertise to this landmark book.
The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair includes more than 300 of the most important home repair projects - from patching cracks in a basement floor to replacing your roof. Each project is illustrated with step-by-step color photography and detailed how-to instructions that leave nothing to chance. You'll also find:
Complete Tools & Materials Lists for all projects.
Helpful Hints that save you time, money, and aggravation.
Troubleshooting Charts that let you pinpoint the cause of common problems and
their solutions.
Maintenance Checklists for seasonal and annual inspection and repair routines.
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About the Author
Creative Publishing international is a worldwide publisher of how-to books. The company's current retail offering includes over 300 titles on topics covering home improvement, home decorating, sewing, crafting, hunting & fishing, and photography. Over the past 15 years, CPi has developed high-quality photography step-by-step books with nationally recognized brand partners like Black & Decker and Singer.
