- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Free Press; 2nd edition edition (Nov 9 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684872609
- ISBN-13: 978-0684872605
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.3 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #643,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a wide-ranging guide to home repairs written for the homeowner with limited do-it-yourself experience. It begins with the essentials of tool selection and then provides up-to-date coverage of construction materials and hardware items. Much of the remainder of the book is divided evenly between interior and exterior projects with briefer--but still valuable--coverage accorded basic plumbing, heating, and electrical repairs. The book also touches on less commonplace topics such as steel stud construction, pressed metal ceilings, and various home security products. The reassuringly written text takes pains to identify work that is best left to the more highly skilled. The many simple color drawings make the narrative descriptions especially easy to follow. Recommended for most public libraries.
- Bill Demo, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll., Dryden, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
- Bill Demo, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll., Dryden, N.Y.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The ultimate home-improvement guide features instructions on how to do thousands of maintenance tasks, renovations, and repairs, as well as two thousand four-color, easy-to-follow diagrams. 150,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. Rodale & BH&G Main. Lit Guild & Doubleday Alt.
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Quality hand tools, properly used and properly maintained, produce quality work. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent read,
By baldmonkey "monkeypatrol" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step Revised Book of Home Repair and Improvement (Hardcover)
This book is a real good addition to every carpenter's library. You could even use the woodworking section of this book (Chapter 3) to help you build library shelving that you could then use to place this book (or similar woodworking books) upon. Hot dog! The illustrations were fun, but they fell short. Any good profesional worth his spackle knows, not every project goes to plan. Aluminum foil covered pennies installed incorrectly in the fuse box, or sump pump flooding, or what to do when you drop a running bandsaws in the crib, the illustrations never tell you about what to do then. But they're part of any job, yet the book really leaves you out to dry. There isn't even a single section on Stop! Drop! and Roll! What if you forgot? What if you mixed them up? What then? It's still really helpful and comprehensive though. And while helpful and comprehensive, I do have a few points of "disagreement" about this book too. Mr. Huffington is the profesional, I know, but consider: when it comes to hanging the wallpaper, your standard staple gun work just as well as Mr. Hufnagel's more traditional glue methods. And shingles aren't nearly as complicated as he makes it out to be. Am I the only one who has ever used a tarp to stop leaking? I doubt it. And particleboard cabinets do, too, work. You just need to paint them yellow or black. Mr. TV-money never tells you that. And you might as well rip out the chapter on replacing clogged drainage pipes. It's a waste. Just use the chemicals you have left over from sealing your grout (Chapter 13) and pour them down the drain. Drop in a lit match, leave the room, and you just saved time and money. And while I didn't care for the salty langauge he chooses to describe his various chores, I forgive him. He should just clean up his "blue" act some. Kids might be reading this. Although maybe more kids should read this. With their dainty hands they could replace you when it comes to cleaning the gunk from stormdrains (Chapter 23) and dislodging chunks of wood that might jam up an otherwise perfectly good Skill Saw (Chapter 3). I highly, highly recommend this book!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great resource,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step Revised Book of Home Repair and Improvement (Hardcover)
This book is a must-have for anyone who owns a home. It offers clear, step-by-step instructions and expert advice for a wide range of projects.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to follow, useful reference,
By Fletcher Douglas (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step Revised Book of Home Repair and Improvement (Hardcover)
This book is a must-have reference for the novice to the expert do-it-yourselfer. It contains well presented, step by step directions to everything from simple, routine fixes to more advanced around the house projects. The clear photography really helped to clarify the sequence of the work. Would make a great gift.
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