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.
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
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
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Was so good, it was taken!:
Got this book for myself, but my brother liked it so much to took it and I had to order another copy for myself!
Very poor:
I ended up returning this pathetic excuse for a book. I knew when reading the introduction and seeing typos that this book was not published by professionals. Several photos are missing/have placeholders and many of the photo captions are obscured by black boxes that were obviously supposed to be behind the text. So many of the projects assume you already know what you're doing and just need a reminder, and while there's a picture on the cover of someone replacing a doorknob, it's not covered in the book at... more info
BOOK:
GOOD BOOK FOR HOME REPAIRS WITH GOOD GRAPHICS. VERY HEAVY BOOK FOR SHIPPING COST.
Home Repair:
This book is well written along with a lot of picture diagrams. An all around helpful book for the home repair folks like me.
