Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual

This completely revised and updated version of the classic Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual contains: * Over 3,000 step-by-step color photos and illustrations covering hundreds of home improvement projects and repairs. * All-New chapters featuring dozens of landscaping and storage projects. From garden ponds to patios, from workshop storage ideas to kitchen space-savers, you'll find them all. * Up-to-Date information on the latest tools and newest building materials and techniques. Researched and written to be "up-to-code" for both the United States and Canada. Here you'll find the latest on composite decking, laminate flooring, home-automation systems and communication wiring. * Expanded sections on home safety and healthy homes including information on insect control, removing mold, carbon monoxide, emergency preparedness and more. * New Sidebars containing tips on estimating materials, time- and money-saving Handy Hints, and safety information. Reader's Digest and The Family Handyman-the world's largest home improvement magazine-have teamed up to produce 528 pages of the most authoritative home improvement information available anywhere. Ten million people bought, used and loved the original Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual; this version is even more comprehensive and hard working.Family Handyman Magazine Editors is the author of 'Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual', published 2005 under ISBN 9780762105793 and ISBN 0762105798.