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Home Improvement 1-2-3: Expert Advice from The Home Depot (Home Depot ... 1-2-3) By The Home Depot ( The Home Depot )
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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List Price: $34.95
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Product Description
The first edition of Home Improvement 1-2-3 quickly became a workbench classic. The new edition—with 340 projects, 3,500 color photographs, and more than 100 illustrations, charts, and graphs—offers up-to-the-minute solutions for homeowners tackling home repair, maintenance, and improvement. Chapters cover painting, wallpaper, plumbing, electrical system, walls and ceilings, flooring, doors, windows, cabinets, shelves, countertops, insulation, weatherproofing, exterior maintenance, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning. Clear, concise instructions accompanied by detailed how-to photographs ensure your success no matter what your skill level. Every project offers tips, shortcuts and advice on buying and using tools and materials, working safely, avoiding common mistakes, saving time and money, and developing skills. Home Improvement 1-2-3 also reviews new tools, technology, materials, and installation techniques.
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 extremely useful, lets you know whether you can tackle something ( ingonyama )
I've used this book as a guide for repairs / maintenance on a condo in a 100-year old apartment building and a 60-yo house -- it's been a great guide. Estimates of time, skills, tools and materials required are really helpful to keep you from starting too big a project or getting halfway and realizing you're missing some essential materials.
Especially if you're a homebuyer trying to make sense of a home inspector's report -- and figure out how big the tasks are that might be required for the new home -- this book is great. Highly recommended.
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Great book for beginners ( jferrara2007 )
If you own a home, this is the book for you because each page teaches you how to each project. Full of color pages, step by step instructions and a list of the tools you will need. For the expert, this is too simple, but for the novice, every project can be done.
I like how the book gives you the tools you will need so that if you do not have it, you can get it before you start the project.
The book covers all the basic home repairs that you may need from bathrooms to beadrooms, from door to windows and from interior to exterier. While it does not take on projects you want it takes care of all the project you need for your home.
Good Luck.
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Get It Now! ( k9agent1 )
If you have ANY home improvement project or own a house..this book is a MUST have!
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great reference ( deeptahiremath )
Great for estimations and knowledge of what's involved. Have implemented some suggestions but probably would have to attend a free lesson at home depot to really do the advanced stuff. Great for small things like repairing toilets, snaking drains etc.
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Home Improvement 1-2-3: Expert Advice from The Home Depot (Home Depot ... 1-2-3)
Good Book
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