The two previous editions of the book known by home improvement retailers as “Big Red†sold nearly 600,000 copies. This new edition features a larger portrait format for better visual clarity, and incorporates a new page layout style. But all the features that made the original America’s best-selling “bible†of home repair are still present hereâ€"thousands of color photographs and detailed step-by-step directions.
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The third edition also includes more than 30 projects not found in the original edition, as well as more than 300 new photos.
Got a problem with grout? Open The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair (to page 98) and watch your tiling worries dissolve before thesimple beauty of photography. Black & Decker has anticipated your everyquestion and problem with interior, exterior, and home systems repairs, anddetailed the solutions in just over 500 pages. In no other human endeavoris a visual guide so important as home repair (well, maybe brainsurgery), so this is a crucial aid to the handyperson. Easy-to-findsections on floors, insulation, roofing, chimneys, water heaters, wallswitches, air conditioning, and much more are well-designed, brilliantlyillustrated, and carefully outlined with step-by-step instructions frommasters. The photos in particular are extremely valuable, offering manydifferent views (sometimes even exploded) of the operation in question, andalways showing just enough to communicate withoutoverwhelming the reader with too much detail. These alone would be worththe price of the book, but the written explanations and instructions arealso very helpful, offering tools, materials lists, and hints thatwouldn't occur to the amateur. The book finishes with a maintenanceschedule to help you keep repairs from becoming serious, and the end papershave conversion charts and tables that you'll use time and again. If youcan'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
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