Better Homes and Gardens: 1001 Do-It-Yourself Tips

By Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

Now homeowners can tap into the years of experience from experts in the home do-it-yourself field. Time-tested hints, tricks, and shortcuts on everything from mechanical systems and plumbing to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696204789
• ISBN13: 9780696204784
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Glad I bought this book

We have a late Victorian cottage in need of lots of TLC, and I find this book to be a great resource on many different aspects of old home maintenance and repair. I definitely recommend it.

A must for do-it-yourselfers

This book was the best I have ever seen of its kind (not that I necessarily collect these books). Just browsing through it, I picked up several useful tips; simple things, but I hadn't thought of them. For example, using a comb to hold tiny nails or brads (p. 24). Another example, filling the bathtub with water before caulking between it and the wall, to eliminate the tub's movement which would crack the caulk (p. 127). We borrowed the book from the local library; I can't seem to get the book away from my wife, and she isn't usually given to reading such books.Illustrations are excellent. Projects are described in a step-by-step manner, making it easy to follow.