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The Complete Guide: Maintain Your Pool & Spa
Repair & Upkeep Made Easy
by Rich Binsacca
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Better maintenance means more enjoyment of your pool or spa. Black & Decker The Complete Guide Maintain Your Pool & Spa will both inspire and educate readers on the practical points of owning and maintaining a home swimming pool, hot tub, or recreational whirlpool. For those considering a recreational water feature, an exciting gallery chapter and a planning/design chapter will show the latest trends and products, and unique new ways to integrate a pool or spa into the landscape. The book also includes an overview of each type of structure, including above-ground and in-ground swimming pools, stand-alone whirlpools, integrated pool/spa installations, and pool houses and accessories. For readers who already own a pool or spa, lengthy, detailed chapters on basic maintenance, water quality, seasonal upkeep, and routine repairs provide everything needed to keep water features in good operating condition. Even the mechanical systems - pumps, heaters, drains and skimmers - are covered in depth. With this book, no pool or spa owner will need to spend money on a professional pool-care service, and may never need to call a repairman.
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Black & Decker 24 Weekend Projects for Pets
Dog Houses, Cat Trees, Rabbit Hutches & More
by David Griffin
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Critter condos & pleasure palaces for pets Most pet owners keep at least two different types of animals-dogs and cats are the most common pairings-and a surprisingly large number keep even more animals. Domestic birds; pet rabbits, mice and other rodents; ferrets, snakes, turtles-some people may even raise a goat or potbellied pig or two. On top of this, most lovers of domestic pets are also are enthusiastic supporters of wildlife. feeding birds and squirrels all winter long, or creating shelters for butterflies, toads, and even bats. This book provides nearly two dozen ingenious and fun do-it-yourself projects for anyone who loves animals of all types-from lowly bugs to aristocratic purebred show pets. This is a perfect book for parents or grandparents introducing children to the wonders of raising pets and observing wildlife.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Mid-Atlantic Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, New Jerse…
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. This is not an attempt at a comprehensive "Bible" of gardening information, but a complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowner's likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden. Contains regional information for the following states in USDA zones 5, 6 and 7: Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, Southeastern and Northwestern New York.
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Black and Decker The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements and Garages
Projects and Practical Solutions for Finishing Basements and Upgrading Garages
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
In “BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements and Garages”, you'll find brand new projects as well as key updates and inspiration, whether you're looking to transform a basement or upgrade a garage.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Northwest Coast Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Northern California, Western Oregon, Western...
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
The Complete Guide to Northwest Coast Gardening takes a practical how-to approach to gardening that shows the novice to intermediate home gardener exactly how to get started. Customized for readers who live in northern California, western Oregon, western Washington and southwestern British Columbia, the book features all the vegetable and ornamental plants that are most popular in this region. Beautiful photos and detailed information make this complete book a must-have for budding gardeners.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Lower South Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Louisiana, Florida, Southern Mississippi, Sou…
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
The Complete Guide to Lower South Gardening takes a practical how-to approach to gardening that shows the novice to intermediate home gardener exactly how to get started. Customized for readers who live in Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, southern Arkansas, southern Georgia, eastern Texas, coastal South Carolina and coastal North Carolina, the book features all the vegetable and ornamental plants that are most popular in this region. Beautiful photos and detailed information make this complete book a must-have for budding gardeners.
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Black & Decker The Hardworking Home
A DIY Guide to Working, Learning, and Living at Home
by Mark Johanson
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
“The Hardworking Home” presents a wide range of achievable home improvements that will help you upgrade your home to better meet your needs in this shifting world.
From home office to home school to home entertaining, today's households have necessarily become functional microcosms of society. Before the pandemic, less than five percent of full-time employees worked remotely from home. At the height of the outbreak, more than half did. And even when the dust has settled, it is estimated that at least a quarter of us will be performing our jobs from offices in our homes. Distance learning also will endure as an important educational tool. And while we back into less restrictive social distancing guidelines, it nevertheless makes sense to create a fun, vibrant atmosphere for entertaining ourselves and our guests within the safe confines of our homes.
Some of the projects in “The Hardworking Home” are quite simple and others require a little more DIY experience. But the overriding commonality is that they have been curated with the forward-looking filter of making our lives better, more efficient, and more satisfying in a changing world landscape.
Content includes:
Introduction
• How we got here
• Goals and considerations
• Where to work?
• Distance learning
• Multipurpose spaces
• Repurposing what you already have
Adapting Space
• Lamps and lighting choices
• Wall color and painting
• Practical home décor
• Noise reduction
• Air quality and whole-house ventilation
• Furnishings
• Separation tips for open spaces
• Making room for recess and relaxation
• Private spaces for external communication
• Work-related meeting areas
• Technology issues (Wi-Fi and beyond)
• Ergonomic solutions for working at the dining table
• Protecting furnishings and surfaces
• Efficient ways to stash your stuff
• Working together
• Convertible work spaces and desktops
• Partition wall
• Modifying countertops and cabinets
• Tambour hideaway (protecting electronics and equipment)
• Pantry conversion
• Island bumpout
• Slide-out work surfaces (and keyboard trays, printer bays, etc.)
• Under-cabinet lighting
• Under-cabinet storage
• Cord management
• Adapting dining rooms
• Adapting kitchens
• Adapting family rooms
• Creating activity/recess areas
• Movable work centers
• Dividing space
• Workspace under loft bed
• Corner workspace
• Creating living/working space separation
• Adapting bedrooms
• Renovating a spare room
Creating Space
• Renovating a spare room (Features: ways to improve lighting)
• Creating an office in an unfinished basement (Features: furring walls, suspended ceiling, raised subfloor panels)
• Closet office conversion
• Renovating a garage (Features: garage floor refinish, new garage window, garage skylight, storage projects)
• Making an outbuilding habitable (Features: making a shed livable)
• Feature project: closet office
Easy DIY Projects
• Rolling
• Modular
• Drop-down
• Kids
• Space-saving
• Rolling
• Hidden
• File-friendly
• Room dividers
• Plexiglass protectors
• Carrel curtains
• Desks
• Storage
• Privacy barriers
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Lower Midwest Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois…
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. A complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowner's likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden. It includes regional specific information for the following states in USDA zones 5 and 6: Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, lower half of Lower Michigan
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The Complete Guide to Patios
A DIY Guide to Building Patios, Walkways, and Outdoor Steps
by Editors of Cool Springs Press
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
In “Black+Decker Complete Guide to Patios 4th Edition”, you'll find brand-new projects as well as key updates and inspiration, including showstopping patios as well as a variety of walkways and paths.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Upper Midwest Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northern Mich...
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. This is not an attempt at a comprehensive "Bible" of gardening information, but a complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowner's likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden. Contains regional information for the following states in USDA zones 2, 3 and 4: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Upper Michigan, Northern Lower Michigan.
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The Complete Guide to Patios
A DIY Guide to Building Patios, Walkways & Outdoor Steps
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Patios gets a fresh update with the latest products, even more projects, and all-new photos.
With all of the DIY-friendly products for backyard building available today, the only reason not to build your own patio or walkway is that you don't know how. That's about to change. In Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Patios (3rd Edition), the expert editors of Cool Springs Press arm you with thorough, comprehensive information for virtually any patio or walkway undertaking you can think of. An extensive materials and design section helps you wrap your head around all the upfront planning, and the over 30 step-by-step patio, walkway, and landscape projects within are illustrated with detailed, brand-new photographs to guide your progress along the way. Whether you prefer more traditional materials-interlocking blocks and pavers, poured concrete, flagstone, loose gravel and mulch-or you want to be on the cutting edge of the industry with new artificial pavers, geogrid synthetics, and pervious concrete, we've diligently updated this guide to include it all. Finished with a new ending chapter that shows you how to fully customize your DIY patio or walkway, the inspiration inside Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Patios perfectly aligns with all the needs of today's do-it-yourself homeowner.
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The Complete Guide to Gazebos & Arbors
Ideas, Techniques And Complete Plans For 15 Great Landscape Projects
by Phil Schmidt
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
The most complete book on gazebos and arbors you can buy. The Complete Guide to Gazebos & Arbors shows basic techniques for building sheltering structures in the landscape, and provides complete project plans and directions for more than 12 versatile, flexible architectural projects. An overhead arbor can turn a patio or deck into a cool oasis from which to enjoy a landscape, while a gazebo can serve as a full-fledged outdoor room with protective walls, ceilings, and even electrical service. Every reader will find this book to be an indispensable source of planning, design, and practical how-to information.
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The Complete Guide to Windows & Entryways
Repair - Renew - Replace
by Chris Marshall
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Your passageway to efficiency and beauty Both for practicality and curb appeal, windows and doors are the most crucial mechanical feature of any home, and this book helps homeowners preserve and improve these essential elements. A fabulous door can add thousands of dollars in "perceived value" to a plain house, just as a few new windows can shave off a decade or two in apparent age. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Windows & Entryways is a fully-updated revision of Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Windows & Doors. At 288 pages, it features more than 600 beautiful color photographs that are rich with current information. It contains virtually everything readers need to plan and complete any kind of window and door installation. The new version also features an expanded section on door and window hardware, as the types, styles and finishes change frequently. Also new in this edition: an expanded the section on installing and maintaining garage doors; a complete start-to-finish project for enlarging a basement window opening and installing an egress window; a quick and easy technique for giving your fiberglass door the appearance of woodgrain; and much, much more. You'll find no better single book that better covers the ever-changing topic of choosing, installing and maintaining doors and windows.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Northeast Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Wes…
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. This is not an attempt at a comprehensive "Bible" of gardening information, but a complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowner's likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden. Contains regional information for the following states in USDA zones 3, 4, and 5: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Western Massachusetts, Northern Connecticut
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Black & Decker Complete Guide to Bathrooms
Dazzling Upgrades & Hardworking Improvements You Can Do Yourself
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Bathrooms brings you design advice, how-to instructions, and all the facts you need to achieve the bathroom of your dreams on your own.This fifth edition of the perennial bestseller from the BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide series covers all the bases when it comes to bathroom remodeling. From freshening up decor to a down-to-the-studs remodel, all of the information you need to design the job and do the work yourself is right here. Through step-by-step photography and instructions, you'll see how to update lighting, ventilation, flooring, surfaces, cabinetry, toilets, bathtubs, and accessories. This comprehensive buyer's guide takes you through one of the most important steps in any remodeling project, and a complete and up-to-the minute section on bathroom design provides education and inspiration. This new edition of BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Bathrooms also includes updated information explaining how to remodel or re-imagine your bathroom to better meet the needs of aging in place, with projects that conform to Universal Design Standards. You'll see a start-to-finish demonstration on how to replace a shower or tub with a curbless shower stall. To maximize access, a wall-mounted sink is hung and hooked up - and you see every step. Replace a traditional bathroom sink faucet with a hands-free model so you can turn on the water even if you can't reach all the way to the faucet handle. Add a frameless glass shower surround and learn how to install and plumb a vanity cabinet and sink basin. The list of projects is long and the information, vetted by the experts at BLACK+DECKER, is complete and current.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Western Plains Gardening
Techniques for Growing Landscape & Garden Plants in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Northern Kansas…
by Lynn M. Steiner
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This book offers a didactic, practical approach that allows novice-to intermediate residential gardeners to experience success with their vegetable, fruit, and ornamental gardens. This is not an attempt at a comprehensive "Bible" of gardening information, but a complete but focused treatment of plant species and simple, time-saving techniques that maximize the homeowner's likelihood of succeeding with his or her garden. Contains regional information for the following states in USDA zones 3, 4, and 5: Montana, Colorado, Northern New Mexico, Wyoming, Northern Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Outdoor Carpentry
Complete Plans for Beautiful Backyard Building Projects
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
See how easy it is to build your own backyard oasis. Outdoor carpentry projects using cedar, redwood, and pressure-treated pine are perfect for Do-It-Yourselfers of all skill levels, since the materials are easy to work with, and the results are rewarding. Enjoy outdoor furnishings you can create yourself. Items made with quality materials last much longer and cost less, in the long run, than off-the-shelf items. With classic swings for kids and adults, arbors for gardeners and even a table that folds, there's something in The Complete Guide to Outdoor Carpentry for everyone! Over three dozen projects are included, ranging from seating, entertaining, recreational and storage, to overheads and arbors. New projects, unique to this edition, include: 5-board bench, picnic table, folding table, outdoor occasional table, deck-railing planter, window box, Arts-and-Crafts mahogany gate, sheltered swing, outdoor serving cart, arbor and garden bridge. All the projects within this book can be built in a weekend with ordinary power hand tools and materials available at any local home center or hardware store. Each project has complete construction plans and directions for foolproof results--so jump right in and make your backyard unique! This book is full of projects that can be built with ordinary power hand tools and materials available at any local home center. Complete construction plans and directions ensure foolproof results.
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The Complete Guide to Finishing Basements
Projects and Practical Solutions for Converting Basements into Livable Space
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
A fact-filled, 240-page manual that covers every aspect of designing and planning a basement conversion/remodeling project. With more than 600 color photographs, this book goes into thorough detail on crucial subjects like moisture and climate control, egress, ventilation, lighting, and many other issues. It deals comprehensively with adapting home mechanical systems to basement conditions. The many featured projects include finishing a bathroom stub-out, installing an all-new basement bathroom, insulating, repairing foundation walls, installing sump pumps, dehumidification strategies, as well as many other projects designed for livability. A special focus new to this edition presents information and projects for aging in place, including home elevators and chair lifts, monitoring and communication systems, and creating an accessible basement apartment. You will also find projects that show how to upgrade with luxury amenities, including a fireplace, sauna, home spa, exercise room, basement club/lounge and more.
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The Complete Guide to DIY Projects for Luxurious Living
Adding Style & Elegance With Showcase Features You Can Build
by Jerri Farris
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Luxury you can afford! A custom wine cellar with bistro seating; an elegant den with built-in library walls; an electric steam-room in the master bath; a billiards room with a fun, retro wet bar; a custom closet as big as a bedroomàhomeowners dream of the special features that set a home apart and make it extraordinary. Much of the time, though, dreams of luxury go unfulfilled because the pocketbook is out of sync with aspirations. But in Black & Decker« The Complete Guide to DIY Projects for Luxurious Living, readers discover the bridge over the gap between dreams and reality -- their own labor. This book is a collection of high-end home improvement projects to give homeowners the satisfaction and pride of having features normally found only in luxury, designer homes. At a fraction of the cost, any homeowner can create the kind of features that friends and neighbors will envy, along with the satisfaction of achieving this through their own skills. Complete directions for more than 30 ôgotta haveö projects More than 600 color photos showing each process step-by-step Features unusual, designer projects not found in other DIY books
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The Complete Guide to Attics & Basements
by Matthew Paymar
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Complete planning & remodeling information for both attics and basements
“Black & Decker: The Complete Guide to Attics & Basements” is the perfect book for homeowners who need more living space but aren't able or willing to move to a larger home or build an expensive room addition. More than 75% of homes have unfinished space in an attic or basement, just waiting for a creative touch, and this book will show readers how to convert that territory into practical living space. Armed with this book, homeowners will be able to add a bedroom, bathroom, recreation room, or home office without changing the basic blueprint of the home.
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Finishing & Refinishing Wood
Techniques & Projects For Fine Wood Finishes
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Finishing & Refinishing Wood offers inspiration and straight-to-the point instruction on how to salvage mistreated wood surfaces and turn them once again into things of beauty. Readers will learn how to effectively use new, environmentally safe strippers to remove old paints and varnishes, how to patch and repair damaged surfaces, and how to apply stains and achieve glass-smooth new finishes with no fuss. This book features the latest tools, including fine detail sanders and high velocity finish sprayers. Fifteen carefully chosen case studies show how to apply these techniques to a variety of wood projects. An entire section is devoted to spary application of stains and surface finishes - the most important new trend in the world of wood finishing.
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The Complete Guide to Room Additions
Designing & Building *Garage Conversions *Attic Add-Ons *Bath & Kitchen Expansions *Bump-Out Additio
by Chris Peterson
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren't fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information about the remodeling process. But it also is much more than that: it's a hardworking how-to manual filled with hundreds of photos that show you the hammer-and-nail details that go into these major projects. From garage conversions to kitchen bump-pout expansions, dormer additions and more, this book will be an indispensable tool for any project that adds new square footage to your home's footprint.
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The Complete Guide to Flooring
Updated with new Products & Techniques
by Editors Of Creative Publishing International
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This third edition of a classic favorite includes time-honored installation methods now updated to feature new flooring styles, and adds some important new information on renewable flooring materials, such as bamboo, reclaimed floorboards, and natural stone. It also includes the latest techniques for polished and etched concrete flooring.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Greenhouses & Garden Projects
Greenhouses, Cold Frames, Compost Bins, Trellises, Planting Beds, Potting Benches & More
by Philip Schmidt
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
One of the hottest consumer trends is the new importance on outdoor living, and nothing brings the outdoor home to life like a greenhouse and other accessories to help grow and nurture landscape greenery. This book has plans and step by step for constructing and appointing greenhouses of several varieties, from glass-wall to hoophouse; some from kits, some from scratch; also includes plans and steps for other garden structures and accessories. Includes projects suitable to homes and landscapes of all types: urban, suburban, and rural.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Roofing Siding & Trim
Protect & Beautify the Exterior of Your Home
by Chris Marshall
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
The best home insurance policy you can buy
The single worst enemy to any home is the weather. Even tiny breaches in a home's exterior can lead to thousands of dollars in damage if water invades walls and ceilings. To protect families and guard investments, this book provides all the information homeowners need in order to maintain, repair, and install all types of roofing, siding, and trim. Roofing and siding installations professionals will also find this to be an indispensable source of state-of-the art information.
The Complete Guide To Roofing, Siding & Trim covers all traditional materials, from traditional wood lap siding, brick, concrete block, stucco, stone veneer and wooden shakes, to vinyl, raised metal roofing, and cementitious sidings. Important new tends in materials, like EPDM, architectural, fully bonded selvedge edge and pyramid shingles, are also discussed. In addition to complete installation information, the book includes comprehensive methods for repairing problems with existing surfaces, as well as routine finishing and refinishing information.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Tile
Ceramic * Stone * Porcelain * Terra Cotta * Glass * Mosaic * Resilient
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Transform your home with confidence using our step-by-step methods for perfectly installed tile!
Installing tile is one of the most popular DIY projects out there. It is a fun skill to have, is relatively easy to learn, and can save you a bundle of cash if you do it on your own! You can work at just about any pace you find comfortable, and the results can utterly transform a room. Most commonly used on bathroom and entryway floors and walls, tile has many other useful applications, including kitchen countertops and backsplashes. Exterior tile for patios can be permanently bonded to a concrete base or loose-set over a stable subsurface. Ceramic tile is the most common choice, but porcelain, terra cotta, stone, glass, and even new products made from recycled materials are perfect for adding a new look to any space. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Tile 4th Edition includes clear, step-by-step information on how to design and install all types of tile in just about any project you can imagine. The new, updated material in this 4th edition includes:
- Installing a curbless shower and wet-room floor in a bathroom.
- Brand-new wall tiling sequences.
- An expanded shopper guide for all interior and exterior tile options.
- New information on common repair jobs, including regrouting.
- Exciting decorative projects for crafty DIYers.
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The Complete Guide: Build Your Kids a Treehouse
by Charlie Self
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Treehouses Anyone Can Build! Black & Decker Build A Treehouse! that is a basic yet complete presentation of how to plan, design, and build a safe, fun treehouse structure for children. The book begins with an inspirational chapter showing the many treehouse variations that are possible. Next, a chapter on basic techniques shows how the essential treehouse platform can be built and secured in any tree configuration-nestled high among the branches or designed so the trunk passes up through the center, and every variation in-between Then, separate chapters show the techniques for adding walls, roofs, ladders, access hatches and accessories. The final chapter of the book gives complete plans for the treehouses, from the very simple to the surprisingly sophisticated.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to a Better Lawn
How To Plant, Maintain & Improve Your Yard & Lawn
by Chris Peterson
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
At heart, almost every homeowner would love to have a better lawn-greener, denser, healthier. This book is an up-to-date, environmentally responsible approach to lawn care with mainstream appeal. It focuses on dozens of common lawn problems, offering detailed solutions to each one. An ideal reference for busy homeowners who want better grass quickly and easily.
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Essential Home Skills Handbook
Everything You Need to Know as a New Homeowner
by Editors of Cool Springs Press
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
“BLACK+DECKER Essential Home Skills Handbook” offers 100+ beginner-friendly solutions for common household headaches, with achievable DIY projects and full-color step photos and illustrations.
Whether you're moving from an apartment to your first home or you're inspired to tackle a particular home project, we're glad you're here! If you've decided it's time to fix that dripping faucet or a small gutter leak before it becomes a big problem, let's get to it.
Written by the knowledgeable editors at Cool Springs Press-recognized experts in DIY home improvement and maintenance with more than thirty years of experience in home improvement and hundreds of bestselling books under the BLACK+DECKER brand-this is DIY instruction you can trust. While we also publish expert-level guides on everything from plumbing to wiring, this book is designed to be different: it's a plain-language resource with directions not for experts, but for anyone looking to learn more about their home and make it better.
Inside, you'll find directions for 100+ common home repairs and maintenance tasks, with an eye toward the most common issues people have in their home. Whether you need to fix a leaky faucet, cure garbage disposal odors, stop a door from squeaking, or bring a dead electrical outlet back to life, everything a budding DIYer needs is between the covers. A sample of the projects inside includes:
• Home Heating and Cooling: Install v-strip door weather stripping, install adhesive foam window weather stripping, seal air leaks, insulate an attic or crawl space, caulk windows and doors, install a smoke detector, replace a bathroom fan, clean and maintain a central AC unit, replace a furnace filter, seal and insulate ductwork, install a ceiling fan, replace an exterior dryer vent.
• Structural Openings: Hang a new door, install a lockset, install a screen or storm door, install bi-fold closet doors, maintain a sliding glass door, replace a windowpane, patch a window screen.
• Plumbing: Install a touchless faucet, repair a pop-up drain stopper, repair the four most common types of faucets, repair a kitchen sink sprayer, install a pedestal sink, unclog a sink, adjust shower water temperature, repair a leaking shut off valve, replace a toilet o-ring or flush mechanism, drain your water heater, recaulk a tub, insulate water pipes.
• Electrical Issues: Install undercabinet lighting, install a dimmer switch, upgrade an outlet to GFCI, install a whole house surge protector, fix a dead outlet, replace a light fixture.
• Interior Surfaces: Fix a wall crack, install a backsplash, hang a floating shelf, fix damaged tile countertop, fix floor squeaks, repair water damage.
• Exterior Concerns: Fix a roof hole, replace shingles, patch a steel gutter, install gutter screens, repair or replace roof flashing, maintain a garage door, repair damaged siding, stiffen or reinforce an unstable deck, install a floodlight.
Clear, easy-to-follow instructions with photos of each step lead the way. This is a book that gives you more power and control over your home, saves frustration, and ideally, helps save some moneyas well.
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The Complete Guide to Sheds Updated
Design & Build a Shed: - Complete Plans - Step-by-Step How-To
by Editors of Cool Springs Press
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
BLACK+DECKER The Complete Photo Guide to Sheds 4th Edition has the perfect plan for building your own tool shed, habitable shed, garden shed, and many other types of sheds.
With more than 20 complete building plans, the most popular plans from previous editions are preserved, from small garage-style sheds with overhead doors, to kit sheds, to contemporary utility sheds with a dramatic flair. This new edition delves into new styles that are drawing strong interest today, including tiny sheds, miniature tool sheds, and even small habitable sheds that are designed to function as a private home office or a quiet retreat for practicing a particular hobby or activity. As with all of the hardworking, practical sheds from earlier editions, the new varieties include full-color step-by-step photos, complete building plan drawings with cutting lists, and clear how-to instructions. Other shed projects include:
• Garbage & Recycling Shed
• Bike Shed
• Gothic Playhouse
• Salt Box Storage Shed
• Sunlight Garden ShedShed-building, like any other building process, starts with good techniques. That's why the general skills section has been updated and improved. With this complete guide, you can build just about any shed you dream of. Plus, you'll find information on new tools and products that will make your project go faster and more smoothly.
Rounded out with helpful information on important considerations like siting and zoning, BLACK+DECKER The Complete Photo Guide to Sheds 4th Edition truly is a complete guide to this very popular DIY activity.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Custom Shelves & Built-ins
Build Custom Add-ons to Create a One-of-a-kind Home
by Theresa Coleman
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Luxury Built In to Every Project Today's homeowners seek the upscale, premium home styling offered by custom built-in shelving, storage units and cabinetry. Window seats, loft beds, library walls, pub bars and kitchen banquettes are just some of the features found in luxury homes. And these luxury features are now possible for do-it-yourselfers, with the help of this innovative book. The Complete Guide to Custom Shelves & Built-ins shows readers how to achieve the finest built-ins by adapting stock cabinets and pre-made shelving to create amazing effects with only the most basic of carpentry skills. Other projects are based on traditional and classic cabinet-making methods. With more than 30 ingenious step-by-step projects, this book will help any homeowners achieve custom built-ins that add function and style to any home d¬cor. Features easy-to-achieve built-ins made from stock cabinetryùno expert carpentry skills needed Includes built-ins for every space in the home -- from garage to formal living room Includes a chapter on cabinet basics, including installation
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Black & Decker the Complete Guide to Decks
Featuring the latest tools, skills, designs, materials & codes
by Editors of Cool Springs Press
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Be inspired by new design and follow the latest codes as you custom build the deck of your dreams.
Architecture, building codes, and design are not static; they change constantly. That's why there's a new edition of the best-selling “BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks”, incorporating updates to national building codes, as well as new developments in building materials and design. Calling attention to composite deckboards and railings, as well as other PVC products made from recycled plastic, the new materials systems featured in this book are environmentally friendly, easy to work with, rot resistant, and very low maintenance.
Whether you opt for manufactured deck products or wood, the success of your project depends upon a sturdy deck undercarriage. Accomplishing this isn't difficult, but building the framework requires that you have the latest information on building codes. In recent years, these codes have changed significantly, affecting everything from post diameter to allowable joist hangers to railing height and even the size of concrete footings. “BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks” Updated 7th Edition is the only DIY deck book that's fully updated to conform to the latest codes.
Chapters covered in the book include:
• Deck Planning & Design
• Deck Materials & Tools
• Structural Support
• Decking
• Stairs
• Railings
• Accessories
• Finishing & Maintaining Your Deck
• Custom Deck Projects
• Gallery of Inspiring Decks
“BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks” Updated 7th Edition offers complete step-by-step photos and instructions, so even homeowners with limited DIY experience are assured of a deck that meets their needs. So, don't wait any longer; build the deck of your dreams and start enjoying it!
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Black & Decker the Complete Guide to Wir
by Cool Springs Press
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
The Complete Guide to Wiring is BLACK+DECKER's ninth edition of the best-selling home improvement book in North America for more than a decade, now completely updated to conform to 2023 National Electrical Code.
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Black & Decker the Complete Guide to Cabinets & Countertops
How to Customize Your Home with Cabinetry
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
A skillbuilding and confidence-creating introduction to working with cabinets and countertops, The Complete Guide to Cabinets & Countertops contains comprehensive information on the tools, materials, and techniques you'll need to create kitchen cabinets and countertops, bathroom cabinets and vanities, and even sturdy utility cabinets for the basement, garage, or home workshop. This book is packed with valuable information on selecting and ordering stock cabinets, including tips for assessing quality and suggestions for combining stock cabinets in innovative ways. It also has full, step-by-step instructions for building your own custom cabinets from sheetgoods and hardwood. Traditional joinery methods are shown, as well as how to use newer, knockdown hardware and modern fasteners. Techniques for making custom doors and drawers are shown in full detail, with helpful plan drawings and clear step-by-step photos. Finishing, customizing, and upgrading material is also included in the book. In the countertops section, you will find complete instructions for making and installing every popular countertop type, including post-form, custom laminate, ceramic tile, granite tile, poured concrete, and butcher block. You'll even find projects for working with solid-surfacing countertop material. Backsplash options are shown as well, along with instructions for drilling and cutting granite and marble materials and mounting all types of sinks and faucets.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Landscape Projects
Stonework, Plantings, Water Features, Carpentry, Fences
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Complete step-by-step instructions help you achieve a sustainable, efficient, and attractive yard. The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Landscape Projects is a hardworking, comprehensive manual for renovating, building, and "greening up" your landscape. Inside, you'll find complete directions for time-tested landscape building projects as well as new environmentally sustainable projects. From designing your landscape to putting the finishing touches on an arbor or custom gate, everything you need for landscaping success is right here. Learn how to make and install: compost bins, garden walls, dry beds, rain gardens, water features and irrigation, patios and walkways, all the most popular styles of fencing, and more. You can build a sustainable, low-cost yard with the most efficient, cost-effective methods and products with the help of this book. Just because you live in the city and don't own a half-acre plot doesn't mean you can't have a spectacular landscape. In this updated, new edition you will find a special section just for small yards and urban settings. Jump right in and build the landscape of your dreams!
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Carpentry for Homeowners
Basic Carpentry Skills & Everyday Home Repairs
by Chris Marshall
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
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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Black & Decker: The Complete Photo Guide to Treehouses
Design and Build Your Dream Treehouse
by Philip Schmidt
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This third edition of “BLACK+DECKER The Complete Photo Guide to Treehouses” covers every aspect of treehouse building, from choosing a tree and safety considerations to adding interior furniture and even a zip line.
Featuring extended building techniques in step-by-step photo-illustrated instruction.
For kids, a treehouse is a room that never has to be cleaned, a place for muddy shoes and bug jars and adventures real and imagined; a house that you can paint whenever and however you want, without gaining approval. For adults, it's a room that never has to be cleaned, a place for muddy shoes and...well, you get the idea. But best of all a treehouse is up in a tree. And that's just cool.
Filled with inspiring photos of finished treehouses and easy-to-follow instructions for building your own, learn with your family treehouse basics-choosing a tree, planning and design, treehouse safety-followed by building techniques for:
• Platforms designed for various tree configurations
• Framing and finishing walls and railings
• Finishing interiors with paneling, shelves, and flip-down tables and bunks
• Doors, both classic and in fun shapes
• Windows, including shutters and pop-ups
• Building and framing roofs
• Modes of access, including ladders, stairs, trap doors, and a fireman's pole
• Playthings, including swings, a zip line, a rock-climbing wall, slides, and more You can get started right away by following the complete plans and step-by-step photos for making your choice of two popular treehouse designs: an open-air treehouse and a gable house with entry deck. To give you even more to choose from, you will find fully developed plans for all treehouse types included that you can adapt to your particular trees and wishes.
Build the treehouse you and your kids have always dreamed of with BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Treehouses 3rd edition.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Porches & Patio Rooms
Sunrooms, Patio Enclosures, Breezeways & Screened Porches
by Phil Schmidt
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
A modern twist on a nostalgic favorite
Nothing says elegant, genteel living like a well built, well appointed porch or sunroom. The Complete Guide to Porches & Patio Rooms offers design advice and easy-to-follow, concise instructions for adding living spaces that bring the indoors and outdoors together in delightful ways. In addition to offering hundreds of inspirational ideas, the book provides thorough plans and photo directions for six versatile, flexible architectural projects.
For the 500,000 homeowners now building sunrooms each year, this book explores the most popular functions and then offers step-by-step instructions to design and build those specific spaces. For example, an open porch can be used for social gatherings, as a sheltered outdoor cooking space, or simply be added simply to improve a home's curb appeal. A sunroom can serve as a full room addition to a home, complete with protective walls, ceilings, and electrical service; can serve as an indoor garden space for green living plants; or could be put into service as a music conservatory for an elegant grand piano.
This book is an indispensable source of information on planning, designing, and building the addition of your dreams, from digging foundations to final decorating.
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Built-Ins
Complete Plans For Custom Cabinets, Shelving, Seating & More
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Nothing says quality and luxury like a custom built-in storage unit, and no project offers greater satisfaction and cost savings than a DIY built-in project. This detailed DIY book gives complete illustrated instructions for dozens of must-have built-in projects, including window seats, home theater units, buffed cabinets, and bathroom storage units.
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Working With Drywall
Hanging & Finishing Drywall The Professional Way
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Hanging and finishing drywall is quite possibly the one job that do-it-yourselfers dislike the most. It's messy, it's tedious and even small imperfections appear glaring when the walls and ceilings are painted.Working withDrywallgives a fresh perspective on this maligned but essential task. It goes beyond the basics of installing drywall to reveal all the secrets any homeowner needs to know to transform "rocking and mudding" from a chore into a true pleasure.
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The Complete Guide to Finishing Walls & Ceilings
Includes Plaster, Skim-Coating And Texture Ceiling Finishes
by Tom Lemmer
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Finishing walls and ceilings once meant nailing up some wallboard and slapping on paint or wallpaper. No more. Today's do-it-yourself can create dozens of different and exciting wall and ceiling finishes using materials now available at any home improvement center. Even basic wallboard installation is a new game, with curved walls, arches, and elaborate special effects easily achieved with innovative products aimed at the homeowner. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Finishing Walls & Ceilings gives all the information needed to give walls and ceilings designer finishes.
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Masonry & Stonework
*Poured Concrete *Brick & Block *Natural Stone *Stucco
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
No projects offer more aesthetic or financial satisfaction than DIY masonry and stonework projects. Homeowners can routinely save thousands of dollars in labor costs by buying and installing materials that are now readily available for routine purchase. This book includes traditional techniques for laying concrete adapted to the special needs of ordinary homeowners, but also features cutting edge materials and techniques, such as tumbled concrete pavers, acid-etching for colored concrete slabs, and important green paving options, such as rain-garden arroyos and permeable pavers. Several cutting edge projects are included, such as polished concrete countertops and stamped concrete walkways. A complete outdoor kitchen project, ideal for a patio, is also included.
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Trim & Finish Carpentry
Tips & Techniques From The Pros
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
This volume shows DIY homeowners the tips and techniques pros use to get beautiful precision when installing crown moldings, chair rails, paneling, and window & door millwork. It's a book for the serious DIYer looking to elevate his or her handiwork from the realm of basic competence to fine craftwork.
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The Complete Guide to Garden Walls & Fences
*Improve Backyard Environments *Enhance Privacy & Enjoyment *Define Space & Borders
by Phil Schmidt
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Whether it is for aesthetics, security, or simple privacy, no project is more important to a landscape than its vertical boundary structures-the fences, walls, screens, and retaining wall terraces. This book includes classic favorites, like picket fences and panel fences, but also includes interesting regional variations, like Virginia split rail fences and dry-fit stone garden walls. Also included here are the latest materials, such as new variations on PVC vinyl and polymer-coated, wrought-iron look-alikes. And special attention is given to decorative boundary walls for patios-the latest trend in today's cutting-edge landscape architecture. Add in major hardscape retaining wall terraces, and even an invisible electronic dog-fence project, and you have the most complete and modern book on fences and garden walls available.
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The Complete Guide to Kitchens
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
A new edition to the bestselling The Complete Guide to Kitchens, this updated book looks beyond the world of 500-square-foot kitchens with professional stainless steel appliances and presents a host of creative remodeling and updating projects that make sense for anyone. From converting a closet into a pantry to replacing old countertops and cabinets, this book is packed with clear photos and step-by-step instructions for the home DIYer.
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Black & Decker Small Space Workshops
How to Create & Use a Downsized Workshop BONUS: 12 Complete Benchtop Projects
by Larry Okrend
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Lack of space won't keep you from being the craftsperson you want to be, because “BLACK+DECKER Small Space Workshops” can make even a closet into a workshop.
Are you a frustrated woodworker or crafter whose need to create is inhibited by a lack of space? If you have downsized from your large family home or simply chosen to take up residence in an apartment or condo, you don't have to give up on your dreams of working with your hands!
With the savvy tips and thorough information found in “BLACK+DECKER Small Space Workshops”, you can create a functional, satisfying workspace in spaces as small as a closet. Written by Larry Okrend, lifelong woodworker and former editor of one of the largest handyman magazines in the US, this thoughtful new book covers all the issues that creating a small-space shop presents, including storage, ventilation, lighting, electrical service, dust and sound control, and shop layout.
Complete with a dozen space-efficient layout plans, this beautifully photographed how-to guide has a solution for every situation. Plus, you'll find detailed plans and how-to instructions for 12 handy workshop aides to help you get the most from your tiny shop.
The book also features a lengthy discussion on choosing space-saving tools, convertible and multi-use furnishings, niches, and work surfaces with tiny footprints and of course a host of storage products, tips, and strategies. Created under the direction of the experts at BLACK+DECKER, this valuable book opens new doors to let your creativity out, even if you have only a few square feet to work in.
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Black & Decker The Complete Outdoor Builder
From Arbors to Walkways 150 DIY Projects
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Find more than 150 projects for building custom decks, patios, fences, sheds, and more! From building a new deck to creating a garden pathway, the great outdoors is the most popular place for homeowners to showcase their creativity and skill. With more than 150 outdoor building projects shown with step-by-step photography, Complete Outdoor Builder has a project for anyone, guaranteed to improve your yard. This updated and redesigned book is now available with a handsome hardcover, and it's sure to find a permanent place on the shelf of anyone who wants to create and maintain a beautiful outdoor living space. Some of the projects covered in Complete Outdoor Builder include: - Multilevel deck - Trellis gate - Composite railings - Stone moon window - Sheds - Walkway - Playhouse - Treehouse - Landscape steps - Arbor - . . . and much more! The Complete Outdoor Builder includes a wide range of projects and appeals to all skill levels. Building decks and patios are among the most popular categories for outdoor construction, and you'll find all the techniques and skills--as well as complete lists of tools and materials required--to design and build your own. Complete Outdoor Builder also offers plans and revamped photography for more than a dozen designs that you can replicate or use as inspiration for a custom project. Designed, built, and photographed by professionals, the fun projects in this book also have the stamp of approval from Black & Decker(r), the most trusted name in DIY tools and equipment. Roll up your sleeves; it's time to build something great.
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Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Walls & Ceilings
Framing - Drywall - Painting - Trimwork
by Various Authors
Part of the Black & Decker Complete Guide series
Confidently tackle--and accomplish--any wall or ceiling project yourself, with our help!
Walls and ceilings are vital to the structural integrity and the overall appearance of any home, so they are worth your time and care. Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Walls & Ceilings gives you all the information you need to understand and maintain structural integrity, while reimagining and remodeling visible surfaces to meet your home decor needs.
When you decide to remove a wall and open up the space or create a new wall and a new room, you'll see for yourself how great the impact of walls and ceilings is. All the essentials of framing walls and ceilings are shown with beautiful step-by-step photos in exhaustive detail, including framing window and door openings. You'll also learn the tips and techniques for hanging and finishing drywall on horizontal and vertical surfaces.
If you've ever taped and mudded drywall in the past, you'll be amazed to see how much less labor and mess it involves when it's done the correct way. Choosing and applying wallcoverings is also covered in this new book from the experts at BLACK+DECKER, as is the final step in your wall or ceiling project: installing trimwork. Baseboard, crown molding, door and window trim, and much more are explained with color photos and easy-to-follow instructions.