This book is packed with DIY techniques and technology. It gives hundreds of ideas for renovating your home and shows you how with step by step descriptions.
This edition includes material on energy-saving DIY, information on assessing and improving your home's energy efficiency rating, government grants available for energy-saving improvements, and much more.
For novices, DIY enthusiasts or professionals, this essential book continues to be the most in-depth, up-to-date and user-friendly DIY book on the market, covering everything from decorating and repairs to electricity, plumbing and much more. This fully updated version features an even more accessible design to help you navigate easily through the info, and thousands of new photographs and illustrations to make sure you get your job done quickly and safely.
With step-by-step instructions this DIY manual guides the novice through the tasks they are most likely to tackle, from adding your own decorative touches to fixing a dripping tap or broken plug. It also looks at DIY tasks such as decorating, making fixings and basic electrics and plumbing.
More than 500 simple tricks to avoid everyday disasters in your home, food, money, relationships, and more. From DIY fails to cooking calamities, cell phone mishaps to Twitter rages, we all court disaster on a daily basis. Now comes Everyday Survival Hacks to the rescue. This fun yet practical guide includes more than 500 quick tricks to save money, time, and hassles with your home, food, relationships, and more. You’ll learn how to: *Make your batteries last longer *Kill a buzzing fly *Remember names *Avoid getting unfriended *Keep your carbonated drink fizzy and much more!
Explains what tools to have in a home workshop, how to repair and restore interiors, exteriors, furniture, repair plumbing, and many other common household repairs.
An updated edition of the one DIY book that no home should be without. The first part of the book contains 9 sections of practical suggestions for improving your home. These pages are packed with inspirational ideas for up-to-date stylish ways to transform your house and garden, from colour schemes and storage ideas to conservatories and other garden features, and are lavishly illustrated with glorious full-colour photographs. The second part of the book consists of 410 pages of techniques, tools and materials for use in a vast range of different DIY jobs. All the latest information and developments have been incorporated in this update, from new forms of insulation and modern fuseboxes to the latest security devices for the home. The book has been thoroughly checked and brought up-to-date by the Reader's Digest team of experts and consultants, and now includes a brand-new 16-page section. Order of Work offers preparation and planning advice for jobs around your home, including how to spot structural problems, such as subsidence and woodworm. This section also offers guidance on undertaking structural alterations, and safety tips to ensure your DIY is danger-free.
What keeps houses from falling down? How can electrical safety be achieved at bargain prices? What can be done to keep basement floors from cracking? How can homeowners act as their own contractors? Popular columnist Duane Johnson answers these questions and more in this complete guide covering all aspects of home design. 200 illustrations.