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Building A Log Cabin Retreat: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

If you’ve ever dreamed of building a rustic log cabin to use as a weekend hideaway, hunting lodge or even an emergency retreat, this book tells you how to make it a reality. This step-by-step guide is chock-full of tips and advice culled from author Michael Mulligan’s decades of experience. Specializing in do-it-yourself projects that use improvised materials and avoid bureaucratic hassles, Mulligan first shares invaluable insight on finding your land and negotiating the shark-filled waters of real estate deals. Then, in straightforward terms that even a novice can follow easily, he walks you through the construction process, from selecting and preparing the logs to erecting and chinking the walls to building the roof and finishing the interior. He also includes a chapter on dispensing with public utilities in meeting your water, sewage, heating, cooking, lighting, power and refrigeration needs. Finally, for those who wish to tackle a scaled-up version of Mulligan’s basic design, he presents the formulas necessary for calculating the parameters and selecting the proper material.

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Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide

Campers, anglers, hunters, and nature lovers – the woodland hideaway you’ve dreamed of is in these pages!

                Whether you long for an elegant water gazebo, a luxurious sauna hut, or a traditional tipi, you’ll find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to help you build it yourself.  Rustic Retreats includes more than 20 low-cost, sturdy, beautiful outdoor projects such as:

·         Garden Pavilion

·         Grape Arbor

·         Hillside Hut

·         Triangular Tree Hut

·         Log Cabin

·         Wigwam

·         River Raft

·         Adirondack Lean-To

This is a delightful book that promises to deliver loads of fantasy and fun for anyone in need of a rustic place to rest, relax, and retreat from the speed and stress of modern living. The Stiles provide more than 20 step-by-step plans for low-cost outdoor buildings, among them a grape arbor, a hillside hut, a water gazebo (floating!), a log cabin, tree houses, a wigwam, a garden pavilion, a yurt, and a river raft. A bit of individual creativity can make any of the plans described and diagrammed into unique personal statements or fantasies. Many of the plans are so simple they can be built in a few hours or in less than a day, and most do not require high levels of carpentry or building skills (though all will be useful as “learning projects” for the uninitiated). If you built forts as a kid–or wanted to–here’s your chance to play at it again as an adult! –Mark A. Hetts

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The Reader’s Digest Do-It-Yourself Guide to Preventing Costly Home Repairs: Over 19,000 Easy Hints & Tips

• ISBN13: 9781606520222
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This book contains more than 1,900 practical tips, easy fix-its, touch-ups, and make-rights for keeping your home problem free and preventing costly repairs. This unique book is written with one purpose in mind-saving the reader thousands of dollars in preventable damage for the most common trouble spots. Perfect for the handyman or woman around the house, the practical techniques do not require special skills or mechanical aptitude-if you can hold a hammer you can save a bundle.

Organized for easy use, the chapters include an introduction that creates a positive, can-do attitude and encouragement to plan ahead; walls and ceilings and floors and stairs maintenance and repair tips; maintaining your curb appeal high without hefty repair bills for siding, doors and windows, roofs, masonry, weatherproofing, and house extensions; advice on how to keep appliances, sinks, furnaces, doorbells, and lights running smoothly; and fire safety, minimizing Radon exposure, natural disasters, termites and other pest damage-preventive measures that will keep your family safe.

This book is all about giving you the knowledge and confidence you need to maintain and enjoy the biggest investment that most people will ever make.

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Marie’s Home Improvement Guide

Tired of paying the painter to create a mess on your floors? Can’t be held up another day waiting for a plumber between 9 and 5? Feeling threatened by the growing pile of fix-it projects in your basement? Marie’s Home Improvement Guide offers all the tips you need to tackle these projects…yourself! Marie L. Leonard, owner of her own home improvement business, has been teaching home repair to women for years. With the belief that women shouldn’t have to depend on others for home repair, Leonard is helping thousands of women save money and time, conquering the fear of do-it-yourself work. Marie’s Home Improvement Guide provides readers with the know-how to tackle projects around the house. Leonard covers the basics: introduction to tools, safety precautions, necessary prep-work, and shopping for the right materials. Leonard’s tips are written in an informative and accessible manner, paired with detailed illustrations. A reassuring source of encouragement, Marie’s Home Improvement Guide is a must-have book for all first-time do-it-yourselfers.

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Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Improvement: More Than 200 Value-adding Remodeling Projects (Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide)

• ISBN13: 9781589234529
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Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: with 350 Projects and 2000 Photos (Black & Decker Complete Photo Guide)

Got a problem with grout? Open The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair (to page 98) and watch your tiling worries dissolve before the simple beauty of photography. Black & Decker has anticipated your every question and problem with interior, exterior, and home systems repairs, and detailed the solutions in just over 500 pages. In no other human endeavor is a visual guide so important as home repair (well, maybe brain surgery), so this is a crucial aid to the handyperson. Easy-to-find sections on floors, insulation, roofing, chimneys, water heaters, wall switches, air conditioning, and much more are well-designed, brilliantly illustrated, and carefully outlined with step-by-step instructions from masters. The photos in particular are extremely valuable, offering many different views (sometimes even exploded) of the operation in question, and always showing just enough to communicate without overwhelming the reader with too much detail. These alone would be worth the price of the book, but the written explanations and instructions are also very helpful, offering tools, materials lists, and hints that wouldn’t occur to the amateur. The book finishes with a maintenance schedule to help you keep repairs from becoming serious, and the end papers have conversion charts and tables that you’ll use time and again. If you can’t have Norm the master carpenter over to help you fix your old house, The Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair is the next best thing. –Rob Lightner

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Basement: Design Guide (Better Homes & Gardens Do It Yourself)

For basements that need more than a fresh coat of paint, the Basement Design Guide is a great place to start. This book offers step-by-step instructions on designing and planning the project, as well as practical advice for staying on budget, working within local building codes, choosing low-maintenance materials, and keeping moisture, fire codes, and heating and cooling in mind. Full-color photos throughout the book showcase stylish yet attainable basements complete with the newest design trends, from paneling to lighting to home entertainment systems.

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Reupholstering at Home: A Do-It-Yourself Manual for Turning Old Furniture into New Showpieces

• ISBN13: 9780887403767
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This is a revised and expanded edition of a highly successful reupholstering book that has sold thousands of copies. It gives step-by-step instructions with 350 clear and detailed photographs to show how to rebuild that dilapidated chair or sofa to look like new. The author explains what tools and materials you will need, and offers expert advice about which types of fabric are best for your needs. The author then leads your through specific steps with text, photographs and captions to reupholster your chair, couch, or hassock. The result is furniture you are proud to own for years to come, and you did it all yourself!

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Ultimate Guide to House Framing: Plan, Design, Build

• Creative Homeowner Press #CH277660 House Framing Book
• CREATIVE HOMEOWNER PRESS

House Framing: Plan, Design, Build leads homeowners through the steps of building a structure by means of platform framing, the most popular style of framing in use today. Beginning with background information, the book then takes the reader through the framing process – from foundations to floor framing, wall framing, roof framing, sheathing, and more in over 650 color photographs and illustrations. This expanded and revised edition ends with three project chapters: building stairs, finishing a basement with steel studs, and framing a bay window. Each chapter covers both construction and design information.

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Summary: Security alarms assure the security for every home that is fitted with.

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Security alarm system becomes so important for every house. These systems keep your house safe from robbery and trespassing. Your security alarm when turned on works with the types of sensors. These sensory device sounds off in case of forced entry. The loud siren coming out of the alarm is enough bring the attention of neighborhood to your house. This will scare the thieves or tress passers and will make them to run from your house or property immediately.

Most modern alarm systems come with the best form of informative features. Apart from making sirens, the present system also keeps the homeowner and intended people informed with the emergencies. You can set the contact of about nine people in your security alarm systems to pass the message. So, at present you can get the best alarm system for your home to assure maximum safety for your beloveds and belongings. Get the best and lead a satisfied life.