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Contractors Guide to Quickbooks Pro 2007 Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2007 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2007 edition offers. It includes a CD-ROM with a template for a construction company to help speed your set up, an estimating ...read more Item Code: B6024 Price: $89.95 |
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Rustic Carpentry: Woodworking with Natural Timber With an introduction by master craftsman Ralph Kylloe, this manual on rustic carpentry is a superb resource for woodworkers, furniture makers, & carpenters of all skill levels. Here are clear & concise instructions for creating beautiful pieces with unfin ...read more Item Code: B6023 Price: $24.95 |
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Green From The Ground Up Green construction is the building trend of the decade. In direct response to the growing dem& for sustainable, healthy, & energy-efficient homes, David Johnston & Scott Gibson present the most forward-thinking theories & the best proven methods of new & ...read more Item Code: B6022 Price: $46.70 |
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The Homeowners Guide to Managing a Renovation Major home remodeling isn?t for the faint of heart; there is huge potential for design problems, cost overruns, or just unsatisfactory workmanship. Here, a professional construction manager who masterminded the redesign at New York?s famed Avery Fisher Ha ...read more Item Code: B6021 Price: $36.40 |
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Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House, Revised Whether you're a seasoned pro or have never picked up a hammer, here's a valuable reference guide to building a safe, affordable, energy-efficient home -- brought to you by the world's leading authority on community home building, Habitat for Humanity Int ...read more Item Code: B6020 Price: $46.95 |
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Popular Mechanics: Trim Carpentry Skilled trim carpenters know how to make the most of this useful form of woodwork, so things fit perfectly on walls even ones that aren?t plumb or level- the walls most people have in reality. Luckily, anyone can learn the pros? secrets to obtaining that ...read more Item Code: B6019 Price: $36.50 |
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Simple Stonescaping: Gardens, Walls, Paths & Waterfalls An excellent guide to projects that beginners can handle with professional results. Covers layout, tools, mixing mortar, jointing, excavating, drainage, buying, cutting and placing stones and even a section on a cement stucco pond. ...read more Item Code: B6050 Price: $32.95 |
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Build Like a Pro; Trim Carpentry 2nd Ed. In this newly revised second edition of his popular reference on trim carpentry, Clayton DeKorne has added much new material to deliver an even more comprehensive manual on every facet of interior woodwork -- all from the perspective of a professional car ...read more Item Code: B6018 Price: $39.95 |
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Measuring Marking & Layout: For Pros By pros This is a very well illustrated guide to measuring, estimating, and laying out standard residential construction materials. Carroll describes scores of time saving techniques for ensuring any construction ends up square and level. Features solutions to si ...read more Item Code: B6049 Price: $46.95 |
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Trim Made Simple, Book and DVD Guide For any homeowner here's a great way to learn everything you need to install professional looking trim. This integrated set combines a 30-minute DVD & a companion guidebook with step-by-step instructions. The perfect way to pick up all the tips & techniqu ...read more Item Code: B6017 Price: $42.30 |
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Roberts Illustrated Millwork Catalog A sourcebook of Turn of the Century Architectural Woodwork. This is a republication of the 1903 catalog. Covers sash, arches, doors, stairs, grilles, moldings, rafter ends, etc. ...read more Item Code: B6048 Price: $37.95 |
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Cut Your Energy Bills Now Subtitle: "150 Smart Ways to Save Money & Make Your Home More Comfortable & Green". Offering eye-opening incentives & easily achievable methods, Harley's uncluttered & organized approach will not only benefit the environment, it will help anyone reduce th ...read more Item Code: B6016 Price: $29.95 |
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Universal Millwork Catalog, 1927 Over 500 designs for doors, windows, stairways, cabinets and other woodwork. There is a really huge range of products available here. Radiator covers, sideboards and buffets, bookcases and window seats, pergolas, arbor seats, trellises, fireplaces, everyt ...read more Item Code: B6047 Price: $54.95 |
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Complete Book of Wood Mouldings, The "1850 Profiles from the Center Lumber Collection". A terrific source for information on choosing, buying, installing, and manufacturing wood mouldings. Detailed instructions on the processes used to make crown, picture rail, window casing, panel, and base ...read more Item Code: B6046 Price: $46.95 |
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For Pros by Pros: Graphic Guide to Frame Construction, Third Ed. Revised Filled with hundreds of meticulous drawings, this comprehensive visual handbook shows you every precise detail you need to know about framing with wood. Building on the success of two earlier editions -- which have sold over 230,000 copies -- accomplished ...read more Item Code: B6014 Price: $39.95 |
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Theory Of Mouldings With the revival of interest in traditional design, practitioners, students, and historians have begun to study and use the vocabulary of forms that so enriched our architectural heritage. This republication of a 1926 study looks at mouldings from histori ...read more Item Code: B6045 Price: $46.95 |
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Practical Improvements for Older Homeowners Anyone who?s 50 or older should have this intelligently conceived, wonderfully illustrated, room-by-room guide. With advice on everything from creating multilevel countertops to installing grab bars in the bathroom, it explains how to make your beloved ho ...read more Item Code: B6013 Price: $39.95 |
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Hull Historical Millwork Catalog A visual resource of over 500 of the most popular designs from the "Golden Age" of American millwork, the catalog helps architects, builders, designers and woodworkers to find the right trimwork for any style of home. ...read more Item Code: B6044 Price: $39.95 |
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Tricks Of The Trades Hundreds of tips and jigs from Fine Homebuilding magazine's two most popular columns: "Tips and Techniques" and "Question and Answer". Chapters include: Jigs, Clamps, Hand Tools, Power Tools, Saws, Screws, Trucks and Vans, Some Surprising Ideas, and Ques ...read more Item Code: B6012 Price: $22.90 |
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The New Cottage Home This is a highly visual book with over 200 color photos and 72 drawings. Tolpin leads the reader on a tour of twenty-eight cottage homes and examines just what makes them work. The cottages consist of all styles and sizes. This is not only a very useful b ...read more Item Code: B6043 Price: $54.95 |
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Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It?s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it?s now printed on recycled paper with agr ...read more Item Code: B6011 Price: $62.15 |
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Setting Tile This is a major new edition of Byrne's classic original. With the help of real life installations Byrne demonstrates floor, wall, countertop and bathroom techniques. He discusses the many new types of tile, including stone, and setting materials and tools ...read more Item Code: B6042 Price: $39.95 |
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Making Mantels No woodworking project is more gratifying than making a beautiful fireplace mantel. Plentiful examples and plans cover a broad range of possibilities for the craftsperson to consider. This is aimed at both the professional and the home craftsman. Getts, a ...read more Item Code: B6041 Price: $39.95 |
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Wood Flooring; A complete guide to Layout. Installation & Finishing Mention hardwood floors and watch a homebuyer's eyes light up. What makes wood floors so desirable? Hardwood floors are unmatched for their beauty, durability, and ease of maintenance, so it's no surprise that the demand for hardwood has always been stron ...read more Item Code: B6008 Price: $76.51 |
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For Pros By Pros: The Very Efficient Carpenter Professional carpenter Larry Haun shows all the techniques needed to frame a basic house, from laying the sills, to framing the roof. Fully illustrated with information on sitebuilt tools, permits, stairbuilding, tools, materials, task organization for st ...read more Item Code: B6040 Price: $44.95 |
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How To Make Bookshelves & Bookcases Set consists of one DVD(28-1)- Laying Hardwood Floors & book (4-204) Hardwood Floors ...read more Item Code: B6007 Price: $39.95 |
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The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter Benjamin designed this work as a practical handbook for architects and carpenters. It was largely responsible for the Greek Revival style which spread throughout the East. This is a basic text for the period and presents designs for windows, columns, fenc ...read more Item Code: B6039 Price: $35.40 |
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Hardwood Floors: Laying, Sanding and Finishing, Book & DVD Set Bollinger has 15 years of experience with hardwood floors. In this book he details how to install three kinds of floors; strip, plank and parquet. Detailed illustrations show how to pick the right floor, prepare the subfloor, and finish the floor. ...read more Item Code: B6006 Price: $69.95 |
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Rough Framing Carpentry Framing can be a high-productivity, high-profit business, if you have mastered the requisite framing skills. Currie describes quick, efficient ways to frame residential and commercial buildings. How to mark, cut, and drill plates efficiently. How to speed ...read more Item Code: B6038 Price: $49.95 |
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Build Like a Pro: Built-Ins Stressing the importance of form and function, the author offers great advice on how to design, plan and construct custom built-ins that can be adapted to suit the style in which you live. ...read more Item Code: B6005 Price: $33.45 |
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Graphic Guide to Interior Details A comprehensive reference for comparing and assembling interior finishes including floors, walls, stairs and cabinetry. An essential resource for designers, builders, and others who select and install paneling, flooring, cabinetry, stairways and trim. Cov ...read more Item Code: B6037 Price: $46.70 |
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Build Like a Pro: Building a Shed, Revised Ed. Although published in the US, a shed is a universal necessity, and this book provides a comprehensive guide to materials and techniques - plus enlightening advice from a seasoned professional. ...read more Item Code: B6004 Price: $33.45 |
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The Timber-Frame Home: Revised & Updated Benson has revised his original book and brought it up to date with new designs, new materials, and all new photography. There is a new chapter focused on home design and complete coverage for weather-tight exteriors, wiring, plumbing, heating, and coolin ...read more Item Code: B6036 Price: $61.40 |
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Kitchens for the Rest of Us Shows you how to balance what you really want with what is affordable. Filled with inspiring ideas for storage, lighting, countertops, cabinets, floors and colourschemes. ...read more Item Code: B6003 Price: $54.00 |
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The Builder's Guide to Mixed Climates This concise, graphically rich manual shows you the best techniques for energy and resource efficient residential construction in the mixed climates of North America where average winter temperatures stay above 45 degrees F. Covers insulation, HVAC, found ...read more Item Code: B6035 Price: $46.70 |
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Masonry & Concrete Construction Revised Covers preplanning and layout through the construction of footing, founda- tions, walls, fireplaces, and chimneys. There is new info on seismic rein- forcement as well as estimating. This is the bible on masonry and concrete. ...read more Item Code: B6034 Price: $52.40 |
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Build Smarter with Alternatibe Materials This book gives a clear understanding of alternative materials and how using them can enhance your projects, both residential and commercial. Included are installation tips and manhours. Material covered are used in each phase of a project, in order, from ...read more Item Code: B6033 Price: $61.40 |
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Best of Fine Homebuildinh: Energy efficient Building This brings together 29 of the best articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine. Articles cover ductwork and housewrap to building efficient fireplaces and storm windows. In addition there is information on what home-owners and builders can do to improve ene ...read more Item Code: B6032 Price: $32.45 |
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Basic lumber Engineering for Builders This book helps fill the gap between what you can find in the building code span tables and what you need to pay a certified engineer to do. This shows you how to figure stresses for pre-engineered wood or wood structural members, how to calculate loads, ...read more Item Code: B6031 Price: $65.90 |
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Commercial Metal Stud Framing Most commercial work uses some form of metal stud framing. If you've made your w ay up the trades framing with wood, switching to steel framing can be a daunting experience. With this new book you will quickly learn, step-by-step, the basic methods to mas ...read more Item Code: B6030 Price: $62.95 |
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Building with Insulated Panels Strength and energy efficiency through structural panel construction. Structural insulated panels (SIPs) provide some of the strongest, energy efficient and versatile construction components available today. This book gives in depth information on plannin ...read more Item Code: B6029 Price: $61.40 |
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House Check: Finding & Fixing Common House Problems This is a quick access flip-chart that helps the homeowner identify almost any construction problem and find a solution for it. There are almost 600 problems identified covering roofing, exteriors, foundations, basements, gutters, HVAC, electrical, and mu ...read more Item Code: B6028 Price: $46.70 |
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Craftsman's Construction Encyclopedia, with CD Step-by-step instalation instructions for just about any residential construction, remodeling or repair task you're likely to face. Most major installations are covered in alphabetical order from Acoustic Tile to Wood Flooring. Included is a CD-ROM with a ...read more Item Code: B6027 Price: $99.95 |
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Building an Affordable House: Trade Secrets to High Value, Low Cost Construction If you are a builder, developer, or homeowner intent on getting the most from your new home construction or remodel budget, you need Building An Affordable House. This book gives you the insider techniques used every day by the best homebuilders in the co ...read more Item Code: B6026 Price: $46.70 |
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Weekend Kitchen Makeovers Retro, contemporary, Mama?s, professional chef?s: whatever your dream kitchen, the host of DIY Network?s Kitchen Renovations helps it become reality! Paul Ryan offers beautifully doable, affordable ideas for improving this all-important room?s look, style ...read more Item Code: B6025 Price: $36.40 |
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Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple, BOOK & DVD Kitchen Cabinets Made Simple Cabinets come in many styles and finishes, but the one thing they have in common is how much they can influence the overall appearance of a kitchen. A run of new cabinets can completely transform a space — and add significant ...read more Click HERE for size/weight/quantity option |
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Finish Carpentry: Efficient Techniques for Custom Interiors - Revised 2002 This rare and difficult to find book covers the whole subject of interior finish carpentry, including subjects not ordinarily found in more general texts. ...read more Item Code: B3134 Price: $65.00 |
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Australian Decks & Pergolas Manual Best selling soft cover title on building decks to Australian building code. Easy to follow step by step instructions. ...read more Item Code: B0104 Price: $19.95 |
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Australian House Building Manual Excellent resource covering four major styles of construction, brick veneer, cavity brick, timber frame and concrete block construction. Written by an Australian for Australian codes, terminology and conditions. ...read more Item Code: B0172 Price: $35.95 |
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Australian Renovator's Manual It is often said that everybody has one renovation at least in them. This title is packed with hints and advice and is a practical guide to meeting Australian building code requirements. ...read more Item Code: B0173 Price: $24.95 |