Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results
 An OK book This book is OK for a beginner. In his book, the author advises using a setting-type joint compound. In addition, he does not use a banjo for setting his tape. ALMOST everyone else in the world uses a banjo or other mechanical device with all- ... [... more]
CDN$27.95
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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home
Bad Ideas that Save You Pennies This book starts out by suggesting that the reader obtain a pair of work boots and a flannel shirt and go hang out at construction sites so that you can act like a builder and impress your subs. Not to get construction ... [... more]
CDN$19.06
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The New Darkroom Handbook
The only guide you will ever need to building a darkroom I just purchased this book because i am planning to build a darkroom in my basement, and it has provided me with alot of information. And if you have a really small bathroom and you think it's ... [... more]
CDN$46.12
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Welding Projects
Great Source of DIY Inspiration Been looking at purchasing a new weight bench? Been pricing a hydraulic bearing press lately? Had your eye on a pair of those stilts used by carpenters to install drywall? Well, hold on to your pocketbook because this is ... [... more]
CDN$22.08
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The Craft & Art of Bamboo: 30 Elegant Projects to Make ...
Drywall screws and cuteness This is a "craft" book, in the debased modern American meaning of "craft", i.e. useless, shoddy trinkets. All joinery is with drywall screws -- yes you read correctly -- because tying knots made the author' ... [... more]
CDN$25.70
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What Every Home Owner Needs to Know About Mold and What ...
More like a short story paperback. Book reads like a short story paperback, not an analytical text with charts, diagrams and pictures. Maybe the publisher did not have these additional features available at time of print. Other texts do show microscopic ... [... more]
CDN$24.95
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The Very Efficient Carpenter: Basic Framing for ...
factory work "rules" This book is a companion to a series of tapes and is best used as a beginners guide to framing 'factory' style. I like Mr. Haun's style and his book is well layed-out to show one how to frame with his system. He has done a ... [... more]
CDN$32.95
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Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, ...
Trim Carpentry Techniques Nice illustrations, step by step procedures are easy to follow if you do not like to read. Detailed materials and tooling information is somewhat provided. Good for a jobsite quick refrence guide.
Book to read, book to treasure M ... [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, ...
Trim Carpentry Techniques Nice illustrations, step by step procedures are easy to follow if you do not like to read. Detailed materials and tooling information is somewhat provided. Good for a jobsite quick refrence guide.
Book to read, book to treasure M ... [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Swerve
Swerve...and CRASH! I did not feel this book at all. I should have known something was up in the opening pages when she recounts the difficulty she had explaining to others exactly what type of book she was working on. It had no point! She said herself ... [... more]
CDN$19.00
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What's the Number for 911?: America's Wackiest 911
The Truth About 911 A dispatcher's job can be rewarding, exciting, challenging, and sometimes very humorous. As most dispatchers will tell you the most memorable 911 calls are not necessarily the high-rise fires, suicide interventions, or the ones in ... [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Building Your Own House Revised
no longer the standard This book started out with good intentions, but is so laughably out of date that it is hard to read with a straight face. The section on windows does not even list vinyl as one of the options. It might be a good starting point for ... [... more]
CDN$46.95
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