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Black & Decker Complete Home Repair (Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide)
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Product Description
With more than 350 projects and 2300 photos, virtually every home repair challenge is covered.
Deluxe Edition includes a handy hardware chart
This new edition of the classic Black & Decker« Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair now includes a durable washable flex cover that makes the book ideal for use on the homeowners work site.
Added to this edition is a homeowners convenience kit, including peel-and-stick reminder stickers and labels to help you tag your calendar with home maintenance reminders, keep track of furnace and appliance maintenance, index your circuit-breaker box, organize your tool collection, and more.
- Includes more than 350 projects
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #97334 in Books
- Published on: 2007-10-01
- Format: Deluxe Edition
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Flexibound
- 600 pages
Editorial Reviews
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
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
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."
