The Essential Home Reference Manual (Practical Handbook)

By Jane Royston

Book Overview

With contributions from leading professionals, The Essential Home Reference Manual contains advice on everything a homeowner could ever need to know to maintain a comfortable, clean and safe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754800091
• ISBN13: 9780754800095
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Anness
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.7" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Bang for your Buck

The Essential Home Reference Manual is an easy to use, useful household manual without being too Martha Stewartish, although it does have some interesting home decorating ideas. It has five sections: Home Basics, Problem Solving and Repairs, Cleaning and Home Hints, Home Cooking and Perfect Home Skills. The topics in this book range from: first aid. Jointing a chicken, flower arrangement how to lay floor stripping to the best way to get stains out of whites.Each section is chock full of easy to read good hints about the basics of home care accompanied by plenty of photographs. The photographs are clear, concise and to the point, as is the writing. Best of all for those book lovers out there with limited space, is that this book is of a manageable size and won't take up too much room in your bookshelf.It's a great book and if you are looking for an easy to use, read, inexpensive home care book this is a great purchase.