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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Carpentry for Homeowners: Basic Carpentry Skills & Everyday Home Repairs (Black & Decker Complete Guide)

New Edition! Everyday Carpentry for Every Homeowner. For today’s homeowner, basic carpentry skills are an absolute must. Professional handymen are in rare supply these days, and if you can find them at all, they may command exorbitant rates for work that takes just an hour or two to do. Best of all, modern tools are inexpensive and easy to use, making most home carpentry tasks a breeze to do-it-yourself. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Carpentry for Homeowners is a down-to-earth guide to help readers solve everyday problems using the most basic of tools—hammers, saws, sanders, clamps, and screw guns. The book opens with the basics of setting up a rudimentary home workshop and learning tool basics, then moves into a lavish how-to section featuring more than 50 everyday home carpentry projects that cover just about every possibility.   The perfect introductory book on carpentry skills for homeowners Shows ingenious solutions for creating a full-featured home workshop in limited space A complete reference for tools, materials and hardware

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Carpentry & Building Construction, Student Text

Provides students with quality construction skills.
This comprehensive carpentry textbook focuses on residential construction that is also applicable for light commercial construction.

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Carpentry 5th Edition

Carpentry, the professional’s book of choice, provides a highly illustrated and straight-forward approach to step-by-step carpentry skill development. In addition to comprehensive coverage of trade practices, tools, equipment, and materials, this edition includes expanded coverage of OSHA requirements, insulating concrete forms (ICFs), vinyl siding installation, deck construction, stairway code requirements, and trade organizations. New content for this edition includes: Green Building and LEED® Certification, Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) Construction, Seismic/Hurricane Ties and Anchors, Waterborne Preservatives, Mold Prevention, Building Science, New Truss Shapes and Metal Truss Braces, Housewrap Installation, Paperless Gypsum Board, Fiber-Cement Siding Installation, Cement Board Underlayment, and Superflat Floors.

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Carpentry & Construction

Detailed Coverage of Every Step of the Construction Process This heavily illustrated, all-in-one guide walks you through each step of construction in such detail that you can use it to build your own house! Clear instructions along with 1,500 photos and illustrations thoroughly cover every stage of construction and remodeling, from planning and site preparation to interior finishing. Great for do-it-yourselfers, professional house builders and contractors and students, this A-Z guide has all the task-simplifying details needed for each project, logically organized according to the stages of building–along with important safety precautions. The authors even include valuable tips on buying a new home–what to look for and how to avoid costly mistakes. Includes such diverse projects as:

* Kitchen and bathroom remodeling
* Installing solar heating
* Termite prevention
* Installing skylights
* Constructing fences, decks, and patios
* Framing walls
* Pouring concrete slabs
* Installing windows and doors
* Craft custom cabinets
* Panel rooms
* Repair damaged drywall
* Fix a leaky roof
* Lay ceramic tile
* and much more! NEW TO THIS EDITION: latest tools and devices, new methods of utilizing wood in construction, new methods and materials, steel framing in residential work, and much more. (20041101)

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Step-by-Step Basic Carpentry (“Better Homes & Gardens”: Step by Step)

A thorough, step-by-step book of basic carpentry projects and techniques that helps readers save money while improving their homes.Projects include everything from installing crown molding to hanging a door.Full-color illustrations show every project step so readers quickly grasp the instructions.Time, skills, and tools required for each project are high-lighted so readers can quickly assess the scope of each project.Highlights experts’ insights, safety issues, materials buying tips, and hints about using tools.

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Carpentry & Construction, Fifth Edition (Carpentry & Construction)

A complete, step-by-step guide to CARPENTRY AND CONSTRUCTION Revised and updated, Carpentry & Construction, Fifth Edition, takes you through every step of house construction in such detail that you can use it to build your own home! Clear instructions, along with more than 1,500 photographs and illustrations, demonstrate each phase of construction–from selecting tools, to pouring the foundation, to finishing the interior. This how-to handbook also covers remodeling, additions, and repairs. Whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer or a professional contractor, you’ll find all the task-simplifying details you need for your projects, each logically organized by building stages. Learn how to tackle: Footings and foundations Framing and roofing Windows and doors Exterior and interior walls Wiring Plumbing Insulation Interior finishing Kitchen and bathroom remodeling Tiling Solar heating Termite prevention Skylights Fences, decks, and patios Private ater and sewage systems And much more Featuring new material covering the latest green building options, tools of the trade, construction methods, code updates, and a 16-page color insert, this book helps you get the job done better and faster. There’s no other resource that covers the home building process as thoroughly and expertly as Carpentry & Construction, Fifth Edition.

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