Black & Decker Complete Photo
Guide to Home Repair: with 350
Projects and 2000 Photos by Editors
of creative Publishing
Black And Decker Complete Photo Guide To Home Repair
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 wouldnt 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 youll use time and again. If you cant 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
Personal Review: Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide to
Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000 Photos by Editors of
creative Publishing
A little background: the bad news is I didn't grow up with Saturday power
tool time with Dad, and I now just bought an old, old house that needs lots
and lots of renovations. The good news is that I do like to learn, and after
calling a few all-inclusive contractors, I found out quickly that it's much
cheaper to do it myself (if/when I find the time).
I bought both this and the Reader's Digest. Both are great, as I can cross
reference both of them, and the "instructions on the box." Further, when
it's a job I think that's too big for me/beyond my skill set, I at least have a
clue as to what is going on and can have an intelligent conversation with
the handyman. Plus, I can pick his brain on his experience on other issues
not related, and get check it against what I read as well.
Great book(s) for anyone owning a home, and doesn't have the
money/luxury of affording a gc.
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