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Improve Your Sale Price with Home Improvement
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Author: Home improvement is an important part of owning a home. Unless some kind of improvement is done over the years your home will end up in really poor condition and will not bring a good price when you go to sell it. Older homes that were made with fibro walls can be upgraded by cladding the walls with vinyl weatherboards or brick veneer. The latter especially will enhance your home to a very great degree as well as giving it extra insulation.
Having a fixed mortgage may allow you to do such improvements because you can make up your budget knowing that you will not be plagued by those rising interest rates. When you see your home looking all spruced up and new, you will realise just how important it was to do such improvements.
It will keep the home in excellent condition until such time as you need to sell it. When people are looking for a home to buy, they don’t want one that looks like it is about to fall down and will cost them heaps to repair. If they do buy a home in a poor state they will expect the price to reflect this.
But when you are selling your home you want to get the best price possible so that you can go ahead and purchase another home to live in that is also in good condition. So if you are thinking of selling, be sure to take a long, hard look at your home first and do whatever improvements are necessary to get that good sale price.
Smart Guide: Trim: Step-by-Step Projects
Smart Guide: Trim: Step-by-Step Projects
- Creative Homeowner Press #287925 Trim Book
- CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS
Smart Guide®: Trim shows readers how to select and install the right molding and trim for their homes. The book describes room preparation, tools, planning the layout, cutting molding and trim, installation, finishing techniques, and maintenance. Smart Guide: Trim covers a variety of trim types, including base, crown, and chair rail moldings, as well as window and door casings.
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Dry Stone Walling: Techniques in Action
Dry Stone Walling: Techniques in Action
Dry stone walls are a distinguishing and attractive feature of upland Britain, yet there are many in a state of disrepair. Shot in the beautiful landscape of north Wales, this inspiring film guides the viewer through the technique of building and repairing a dry stone wall. Embarking on a repair to a wall section, Andy Radford goes down to the foundations to rebuild the wall cheek with stone runners, through stones and coping stones. As the repair progresses, he fills between the runners with hearting and explains the importance of bridging stones and pinning. This companion DVD to A Guide to Dry Stone Walling covers tools and safety, dismantling the wall, preparations and foundations, grading stones, laying foundations, and building the wall.
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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
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Custom Shelves & Built-ins : Build Custom Add-ons to Create a One-of-a-kind Home
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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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Simple Home Repair
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Simple Home Repair
How many readers does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one – if he or she is armed with this book! Rather than focus on the big projects that most homeowners would wisely leave to professionals, it concentrates on the common repairs that everyone encounters and anyone can do-with the right instruction-including repairing holes and dents in drywall; fixing popped nails in walls; checking and replacing fuses; unclogging drains; replacing light fixtures; fixing squeaky floors; repairing cracked tile and damaged carpet; replacing screens; screening gutters; and much more.
-Contains 250 to 300 step-by-step illustrations
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Bathroom Idea File: Real Homes, Real Projects, Real Solutions (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself) Reviews
Bathroom Idea File: Real Homes, Real Projects, Real Solutions (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)
- In-depth case studies, real-life advice, and dozens of tips to tackle bathroom design, plans, and decor to help consumers make smart choices.
- Includes the latest technology for hardware, faucets, countertops, flooring, and other surfaces.
- Highlights standard designs and ways to refresh with new surfaces and details.
- Compares spas, powder rooms, dressing rooms, kids’ baths, master baths, and other specialty baths.
- Offers designer tips to integrate spa-like features into any bathroom, large or small.
- Addresses technical aspects, including water and heat demands.
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Campbell Hausfeld TL1061 15-Piece Tool Kit
Campbell Hausfeld TL1061 15-Piece Tool Kit
- Great for do it yourself projects
- Perfect startup kit for the home
- Ideal for work around the home and yard
- Neatly packaged and organized in a high impact molded case
Ideal for doing home, auto, farm and yard work, this air tool kit provides you with the right tools and accessories to get the job done right. This 15 Piece Tool Kit includes: 1/2″ impact wrench, 1-5/8″ stroke air hammer, 3/4″-13/16″ SAE flip socket, 3″ extension, (4) chisel bits, chisel spring retainer, blowgun, (3) 1/4″ industrial plugs, air tool oil and carrying case.
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What Your Contractor Can’t Tell You: The Essential Guide to Building and Renovating
- ISBN13: 9780979983801
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
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The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.
“A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat.”—BoingBoing.net
“…the contemporary bible on the subject.”—The New York Times
This celebrated, essential handbook shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.
Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities.
Learn how to:
- Grow food on a patio or balcony
- Preserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheese
- Compost with worms
- Keep city chickens
- Divert your grey water to your garden
- Clean your house without toxins
- Guerilla garden in public spaces
- Create the modern homestead of your dreams
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The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home Inspections Reviews
The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Home Inspections
For home buyers and home sellers.
Here is the first how-to that addresses the needs of both buyers and sellers, making it the perfect companion to the bestselling The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Buying and Selling a Home. The buyer will depend on this guide to determine whether a house is worth buying. The seller will need it to determine which repairs are necessary before listing or signing anything. Readers will learn to troubleshoot all areas of a home, including its structure and foundation, windows and doors, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, insulation, electrical systems, and the roof, just to name a few.
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DVD: The Basics of Household Wiring, Electrical Video and Repair
DVD: The Basics of Household Wiring, Electrical Video and Repair
The Basics of Household Wiring is the only program of its kind. It s an illustrated training program designed to teach you electrical wiring techniques in a faster, more effective way.
Just some of the complex wiring challenges we will teach you on this DVD include: Service Panels and Breakers, Wires, Cables and Gauges,Rough-In Wiring, Switches, Receptacles, Lights, Safety and Testing, Special Wiring Situations, Voltage, Watts, Amps, Three-Way switches and more…
Owning this DVD will give you the opportunity to watch wiring procedures over and over again until you ve mastered them. We provide diagrams and show you how electricity flows through your newly wired situation. The Basics of Household Wiring will jump start your confidence and teach you the professional secrets to this challenging field of home improvement.
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