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Product Description: To add character and beauty to a home and still be practical, installing trim is one of the most effective and simple methods. It can conceal and seal gaps around doors, windows, floors, and ceilings while providing visual interest and shadow lines to otherwise bland items...read more

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9781588166876 | Hearst Books, August 5, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: To add character and beauty to a home and still be practical, installing trim is one of the most effective and simple methods.

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Product Description: Trimming is more than just applied ornamentation: it covers up flaws, conceals gaps, creates airtight seals, and even defines the style of a house. That’s why it’s so important—and this conveniently-sized, colorful, and information-crammed fourth book in Rick Peters’s popular series helps homeowners get the know-how they need...read more

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9781402748110 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, February 5, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Trimming is more than just applied ornamentation: it covers up flaws, conceals gaps, creates airtight seals, and even defines the style of a house.

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9781402748103, titled "Tile: Tile" | Sterling Pub Co Inc, August 1, 2007, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: From planning a makeover to tackling the nuts-and-bolts of each project, Popular Mechanics provides three appealing ways to create your dream kitchen. See what amazing transformations are possible on economy, mid-range, and high end budgets, either to duplicate exactly or use as inspiration...read more

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9781588166708 | Hearst Books, August 1, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From planning a makeover to tackling the nuts-and-bolts of each project, Popular Mechanics provides three appealing ways to create your dream kitchen.

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A comprehensive woodworker's manual that encompasses every aspect of the jointer and planer describes each tool, its features, applications, design, and more, looking at bench-top, stationary, and portable models of each, available accessories, the techniques of using the tools, maintenance and repair tips, and creative projects. Original.

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9781588165565 | Hearst Books, April 28, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive woodworker's manual that encompasses every aspect of the jointer and planer describes each tool, its features, applications, design, and more, looking at bench-top, stationary, and portable models of each, available accessories, the techniques of using the tools, maintenance and repair tips, and creative projects.

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Explains basic home plumbing that can be done without calling a professional.

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9781402741968 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, November 28, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Explains basic home plumbing that can be done without calling a professional.

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Product Description: The garage is often the last place in the home that gets a makeover—even though it’s often desperately in need of an overhaul. But homeowners are catching on. Now, Rick Peters presents six themed ways to transform the garage into a comfortable, effective, and efficient space: enclosing a carport; making a mechanic’s dream work area; adding a woodworking shop; creating a craft room; putting in storage (and more storage); and building a family room...read more

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9781588165138 | Hearst Books, November 28, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The garage is often the last place in the home that gets a makeover—even though it’s often desperately in need of an overhaul.

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9781402732003 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, November 28, 2006, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Here are makeovers you can actually use, afford, and do yourself. Unlike some books on remodeling the bathroom, this real-world guide steers clear of wildly expensive options that demand a costly contractor to implement. Instead, eye-catching, sensible suggestions explain how to get rid of the dingy old vanity, redo that terrible lighting, and lose the stained, worn linoleum...read more

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9781588163189 | Hearst Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the great tradition of Popular Mechanics, here are ideas for makeovers you can actually use, afford, and do yourself.

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9781588166142 | Hearst Books, October 28, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here are makeovers you can actually use, afford, and do yourself.

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Product Description: Woodworkers trust Popular Mechanics to give them the information they need—and the Workshop series, written by respected DIY author Rick Peters, has proven invaluable. Each title covers a single tool in depth, with photos and exploded views, instructions, charts, and sidebars...read more

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9781588165572 | Hearst Books, August 25, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Woodworkers trust Popular Mechanics to give them the information they need—and the Workshop series, written by respected DIY author Rick Peters, has proven invaluable.

Have some home improvement notches under your belt--but not feeling quite ready to tackle a major job? You can step up to the big projects...as long as you have this all-color, how-to manual by your side. Whether you're moving an interior wall or adding a shed, these instructions, tips, dozens of large-size photos, and extraordinarily detailed and colorful line drawings will show how to go about making key structural changes to your house. From codes and permits to tools and materials, become privy to the insider information the professionals know. What kind of lumber should you buy? Which nails are right for your job: ring shank or hot-dipped galvanized? How do you demolish a wall without damaging the rest of the house? What's the smart, safe way to construct a garage from the ground up? You won't want to start work without the answers to these and hundreds more important questions about tools, materials, framing systems, post-and-beam, foundations and floors, partitions, barriers, insulation, and much more.

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9781402710889 | Main Street Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $6.98

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9780806958996 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Have some home improvement notches under your belt--but not feeling quite ready to tackle a major job?
9781402711206 | Main Street Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Have some home improvement notches under your belt--but not feeling quite ready to tackle a major job?

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A helpful handbook for older adults offers a fully illustrated, room-by-room guide that is filled with ingenious ideas on how to modify a space to make the home easier to manage, safer, and conducive to independent living, with specific options for flooring, lighting, appliances, windows and doors, sinks and tubs, and other design solutions.

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9781588164650 | Hearst Books, April 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A helpful handbook for older adults offers a fully illustrated, room-by-room guide that is filled with ingenious ideas on how to modify a space to make the home easier to manage, safer, and conducive to independent living, with specific options for flooring, lighting, appliances, windows and doors, sinks and tubs, and other design solutions.

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In the dark about how to take care of electrical problems--and worried about handling breakdowns safely? Teach yourself! You know you could replace a faulty receptacle, add a dimmer switch, or install a recessed light...if only an expert would show you how. That's exactly what this all-in-color book, packed with charts, diagrams, and photos, does: it gives you a thorough, yet amazingly easy-to-understand, overview of basic home electricity. No other manual makes everything from blown fuses to circuitry simple and clear, so that you have the power to take command of the everyday glitches that arise. Get the basics of working with wire, cable, and conduit. Do emergency repairs on breakers, blown fuses, frayed cords, and plugs. Test switches and receptacles; install boxes for light fixtures; and add outlets. Replace ballasts; mount track lighting; and extend circuits. Run cable through a wall, and to the ceiling. Every part is identified and every function described in a wonderfully straightforward way. All the fundamentals are covered--even how to select inexpensive specialty tools. It's the one book you need to learn all the basics.

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9781402710865 | Main Street Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $6.98

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9781402711183 | Main Street Pr, December 31, 2003, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: In the dark about how to take care of electrical problems--and worried about handling breakdowns safely?

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Product Description: With more than 300 color photos, this fourth authoritative Popular Mechanics Workshop tool book helps woodworkers take full advantage of this most essential piece of equipment. No guide will give them a better start: do-it-yourself author extraordinare Rick Peters discusses every aspect of the lathe, from the simplest function up to the most advanced techniques...read more

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9781588164476 | Hearst Books, November 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: With more than 300 color photos, this fourth authoritative Popular Mechanics Workshop tool book helps woodworkers take full advantage of this most essential piece of equipment.

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Product Description: The Popular Mechanics MoneySmart Makeovers series has helped thousands redo their kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms. This inspiring volume, which comes from one of the most trusted experts in the do-it-yourself field, steps outside with authentic makeovers that anyone can accomplish...read more

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9781588163974 | Hearst Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With its first three volumes, Popular Mechanics MoneySmart Makeovers is helping thousands redo their kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms.

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9781588166845 | Reprint edition (Hearst Books, March 4, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Popular Mechanics MoneySmart Makeovers series has helped thousands redo their kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms.

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Introduces a wide variety of budget-conscious, stylish solutions for renovating different rooms of the home, from the dining room or kitchen to bedroom and living room, presenting helpful planning and design guidelines, real-life makeover examples, and detailed instructions on the ins and outs of creating a new look, from choosing a color scheme, to buying materials and tools, to taking care of the finishing details. Homestyle Book Club

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9781588163950 | Hearst Books, June 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Introduces a wide variety of budget-conscious, stylish solutions for renovating different rooms of the home, from the dining room or kitchen to bedroom and living room, presenting helpful planning and design guidelines, real-life makeover examples, and detailed instructions on the ins and outs of creating a new look, from choosing a color scheme, to buying materials and tools, to taking care of the finishing details.

A guide to performing miracles with limited space in the kitchen presents numerous scenarios for transforming this often used space into a more usable and aesthetically pleasing area of the home. Original.

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9781561587261 | Taunton Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A guide to performing miracles with limited space in the kitchen presents numerous scenarios for transforming this often used space into a more usable and aesthetically pleasing area of the home.

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Presents ideas for renovating an out-dated kitchen at three various spending levels, and offers ideas on designs, materials, and styles, with instructions for do-it yourself projects including tile floors, trim, and lighting.

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9781588162557 | Hearst Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents ideas for renovating an out-dated kitchen at three various spending levels, and offers ideas on designs, materials, and styles, with instructions for do-it yourself projects including tile floors, trim, and lighting.

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Product Description: What will you do if your faucet springs a leak, if your sink stops up, if your toilet valve breaks? You know it's going to happen at some point--so be prepared, by knowing how home plumbing systems operate, from top to bottom, and how to handle repairs on everything from tubs to dishwashers...read more

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9781402710896 | Main Street Pr, August 30, 2003, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: What will you do if your faucet springs a leak, if your sink stops up, if your toilet valve breaks?

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9781402711213 | Main Street Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $7.98 | About this edition: What will you do if your faucet springs a leak, if your sink stops up, if your toilet valve breaks?
9780806936697 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What will you do if your faucet springs a leak, if your sink stops up, if your toilet valve breaks?

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