Popular Mechanics Home How-To - Hardcover

Albert Jackson

9780688085124: Popular Mechanics Home How-To

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688085121 ISBN 13: 9780688085124

Publisher: Hearst Books, 1989

This home maintenance book is filled with practical advice on how to save money, time, and aggravation on everything from plumbing to color schemes. More than 200 subjects are covered, richly supplemented with over 3,000 color photographs, diagrams, and tables. Illustrated step-by-step directions clearly and precisely walk you through each task. A unique system of cross-referencing - color-coded pages, references to related topics on every page - allows you to explore all facets of a subject and to make projects as simple or complex as you choose. A special section unravels the mysteries of tools, specific skills, and materials, and an extensive glossary and index mean no question has to go unanswered.

This book is for all those who want to increase the value of home or apartment, save on costly repairs, and have the satisfaction of doing a job themselves. No home can afford to be without it.

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From Library Journal:

Exhaustive in scope, this is similar to the Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual (Reader's Digest Pr., dist. by McGraw, 1973). Like that earlier classic, this emphasizes home maintenance and improvements rather than large-scale construction and renovation projects. To list a sampling of topics risks misrepresenting its sheer breadth. Certain topics--wiring, plumbing, and heating, for example--are treated at length. What really sets this apart from similar treatments is its design and organization. An inventive page layout, imaginative use of color, a multitude of drawings and charts, and a comprehensive system of cross-references make this a pleasure to use. Sure to be in demand as a basic reference in most public libraries.
- Bill Demo, Tompkins Cortland Community Coll., Dryden, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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