Home Improvement Books
This is our catalog page for home improvement and home repair books.
Our customer service staff has selected some of the most informative, useful and popular books for the home owner and the
do-it-yourselfer. These books cover plumbing, electrical wiring, remodling bathrooms, designing kitchens, general home repairs
and maintanence, and just about everything else that deals with home improvement and repairs.
These books include step-by-step instructions with photographs and illustrations showing how-to-do the complete projects. And
generally include service tips and techniques.
We recommend these books for professionals, handymen, and homeowners because
many of these book we use ourselves and are on our bookselves and our workbenches.
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Home Improvement and Home Repair Books
- New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual
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- -Reader's Digest / Hardcover 528 pages, 5th Edition / Published September 1991
This repair and maintence manual has helped more home owners than any other single manual. It is one of the best and is well
written with clear and easily understood step-by-step instructions. Well indexed with 4000 illustrations, 3000 in full color.
If you want to buy only one home repair manual, this should be your first choice.
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- The Family Handyman Helpful Hints: Quick and Easy Solutions, Timesaving Tips, Tricks of the Trade
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- -Reader's Digest / Hardcover 400 pages / Published May 1995
This well written and clearly written manual has 2000 tips and techniques to help you solve those pesty problems that must be solved quickly. These tips
and tricks of the trade were obtained from and tested by the pros. Includes 1000 illustrations.
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- How a House Works
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- -Duane Johnson / Paperback 192 pages / Published May 1994
Do you need to know how the different systems in your house works? This book explains in clear and easily understood language how the plumbing, electrical, ventilation and other systems work.
And it also what happens when the various systems fail to work.
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- 1001 Do-IT-Yourself Hints And Tips: Tricks, Shortcuts, How-to, and Great Ideas For
Inside, Outside, and All Around Your House
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- -Reader's Digest / Hardcover 352 pages / Published April 1998
This well written manual has clear simple step-by-step non technical instructions for solving problems. Includes 1500 color photographs.
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- The Stanley Complete Step by Step Revised Book of Home Repair and Improvement
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- -James A. Hufnagel, Edward R. Lipinski, Dean Johnson, Editor
Hardcover 528 pages, Revised edition / Published November 2000
The ultimate home-improvement guide just got better by decribing additional new tools, better methods, and more materials. Features complete instructions written by experts with hands-on experience
to do thousands of maintenance jobs, renovations, and repairs. Includes step-by-step instructions with over 2100 four-color, easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrations showing on how to service and
repair everything in your home.
From the most trusted, authoritative, and experienced name in the do-it-yourself field, here is a comprehensive, completely illustrated, and up-to-date reference manual.
Includes a basement-to-rooftop Homeowner's Inspection Guide, plus a Seasonal Troubleshooting Checklist.
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- The Complete Photo Guide to Home Improvement
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- -Creative Publishing international / Hardcover 504 pages / Published August 2001
This book is devoted entirely to step-by-step remodeling projects whick are designed to improve the livability and value of your home.
It features the very latest tools, building materials, and construction techniques to ensure professional results every time. Offers
complete directions for almost 250 of the most popular, money saving improvement projects. Includes step-by-step instructions for these
250 projects with 1,700 color photos illustrations highlighting tools, materials, and project tips. Plus conversion and tool charts
and additional resources.
Includes extensive sections of basic how-to skills, including electrical wiring, plumbing and rough carpentry. Includes a wide range
of projects, from simple window and door replacement, to extensive demolition and renovation projects. Includes comprehensive chapters
on remodeling bathrooms, kitchens, and finishing attics and basements.
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- The Complete Guide to Home Wiring
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- -Black & Decker / Paperback 288 pages / Published April 1999
This book show you how to make your own home wiring safely. Covers everthing from simple basic repairs to the advanced repairs.
Explains how electricty and the wiring system in your house works. Includes hundreds of illustrations and photographs.
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- The Complete Guide to Home Wiring: A Comprehensive Manual, from Basic Repairs to Advanced Projects
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- -Creative Publishing international, editors / Paperback 304 pages / Published March 2001
This excellent book, from the Black & Decker Home Improvement Library, shows you the basics of how electricity works and explains simple repairs and projects,
and more advanced rewiring that you may choose to do yourself, rather than hire a professional. Included are the most up-to-date electrical code requirements,
guidelines to evaluating, planning and installing new electrical circuits, repair advice on switches, receptacles, and fixtures. Plus a detailed section with
illustrations on lighting designs. The easy to follow text is accompanied with hundreds of illustrations and photographs and a comprehensive reference index.
All to make this an ideal book for the beginner, and an up-to-date reference for the professional.
By following this book anyone can learn about safe and correct wiring in order to make complete repairs or add new wiring to an old and inadequate electrical system.
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- Advanced Home Wiring
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- -Black & Decker Home Improvement Library / Paperback 128 pages / Published February 1992
This book from the Black & Decker Home Improvement Library explains with a clearly written text and detailed illustrations and photos how to perform safely the more advanced
electrical wiring projects anywhere in your home. Follow the easy instructions and more than 350 step-by-step photographs wire your project properly and leave nothing to chance.
It includes dozens of color circuit maps that meet current electrical code requirements.
With this book you will understand how your home is wired, determine your electrical needs and capacities, and learn the basic principles behind wiring.
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- The Complete Guide to Home Plumbing: A Comprehensive Manual, from Basic Repairs to Advanced Projects
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- -Black and Decker / Paperback 256 pages, 8Th Edition / Published August 1998
This plumbing guide offers excellent step-by-step instructions for planning, installing, and repairing house plumbing. Most home plumbing can be repared by following this guide.
Includes photos and illustrations.
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- Bathroom Remodling
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- -Black & Decker Home Improvement Library / Paperback 128 pages / Published June 1993
This guide shows how to plan and perform a complete remodling of the barthroom. From changing or replacing the fixtures to doing tile work, its all here.
Includes step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photos.
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- The Kitchen Idea Book
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- -Joanne K. Bouknight / Hardcover 201 pages / Published February 1999
This book is filled with warm and inviting detailed kitchen designs that will help you to design a kitchen to meet your needs and fit your lifestyle.
A well designed and constructed kitchen can add thousands of dollars to the value of your home. Includes hundreds of kitchen designs and 470 color photographs.
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- Good Wood Handbook
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- -Albert Jackson, David Day / Paperback 128 pages, 2nd Edition / Published August 1999
The book explains the strengths and weaknessses of over 150 kinds of wood. Select the right wood for your projects.
Well illustrated with excellent color photos of 74 specimen boards.
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- The Complete Manual of Woodworking
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- -Albert Jackson, David Day, Simon Jennings / Paperback 320 pages / Published 1997
This authoritive manual have more than 1800 diagrams, drawings, and photographs to instruct, educate, and inspire woodworkers of all experience levels. Includes detailed discussions of all of the
principal harwoods and softwoods and choosing hand tools. Covers woodworking techniques in detail.
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- Black & Decker: The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair
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- -Black & Decker Staff / Hardcover 512 pages / Published August 1999
Got a home repair problem? Your will find expert solutions to over 300 of the most common home repair projects shown in detailed pictures.
Contains about 2,000 illustrations, a detailed tool list, and hundreds of helpful tips.
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