Do It Yourself category: 1060 books
by Walter Macfarlane
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains a collection of notes originally written for the guidance of the staff in an iron and steel works laboratory. It is an abbreviated version of "Laboratory Notes on Iron and Steel Analyses" that was condensed to meet the needs of those who did not want to enter for...
Essential Natural Plasters
A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.
Yet until now there's been no resource that has...
by J. Starkie Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This vintage book contains a historical account of English Ironwork, being a detailed analysis of seventeenth and eighteenth century English smithery with a particular focus on influential craftsmen. This profusely illustrated volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the history...
Keeping Your Home Ready to Receive
Cleaning and Organization Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The eBook “Keeping Your Home Ready to Receive Cleaning and Organization Guide” contains valuable information on how to clean and keep your house clean for years with minimal effort. A comprehensive guide, it doesn’t just talk about life hacks but also provides dozens of natural recipes to help...
Furniture Makes the Room
Create Special Pieces to Style a Home You Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Knack Studio founder Barb Blair is famous for her "knack" with furniture: spotting classic pieces and transforming them into modern showstoppers. In this inspiring book, Blair goes beyond the nuts and bolts of furniture refinishing to show how to style rooms with each customized piece. For...
by Denise Nye-Ward
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Color is a powerful entity. Explore the ways color influences our lives. Learn how color promotes our purchases, creates moods, works in the natural world, and the meanings of colors. Simply written, by a color consultant, in a style that will allow you to see color in all its glory, in ways you never saw it before. This is a story celebrating color.
by Larissa Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The quality of the air inside your home can be directly affected by the cleanliness of the air ducts in your HVAC system. Hair, pollen, dust and dirt can get trapped in the HVAC system and distributed to every part of the house through the air ducts. Although there are many companies that offer air...
by William Neubecker
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This vintage book contains a practical instruction manual for the apprentice or assistant sheet metal worker. It includes detailed instructions on cutting, forming, soldering, and preparing full-sized details from architects blue prints, developing the patterns, laying out the work on sheet metal,...
Essential Prefabricated Straw Bale Construction
The Complete Step-by-Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Prefabricated straw bale wall panels combine the performance and low environmental impact of traditional straw bale with reduced labor and more consistent results. These structural insulated panels (SIPs) are built offsite and transported to the job site, or built onsite and "tipped up" into position....
by Tim Deveaux, Dominic Blyth
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The aims of this book are to enhance the knowledge of a user who has some basic knowledge of drainage systems and to give a working knowledge of solving problems in domestic and small commercial drainage systems. It focuses mainly on below ground domestic drainage and assumes some knowledge of building...
by William Neubecker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the problems of geometry and measurement encountered by sheet metal workers. It comprises a series of examples that show the working out of the circumferences, areas, and capacities for various shapes-an exercise that is intended to enable the student...
by Filip Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Wildwood Wisdom
Master Your Talent for Wilderness Survival
This book is about taking fundamental elements of survival in the wilderness to the next level – to learn advanced techniques for survival that will increase the reader’s odds in the wilderness. Regardless of physical stature,...
Treat The Threat Of Bed Bugs
Basic Details To Help You Identify What Are Bed Bugs, Bed Bug Symptoms For Signs Of Bed Bug Bites And Bed Bug Infestations And Pest Control Services For Bed Bug Treatment And Prevention So You Can Have A Bed Bug-Free Home All The Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
They’re rightly called pests because bed bugs are literally pestering organisms. Once they invade the home, they are a constant source of annoyance that can be harmful to you and your family and damaging to your home. Bed bugs are often mistaken for ticks or small cockroaches. They are tiny. They...
by Georgiann Baldino
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Nine years after the wedding a bride wants to repurpose her wedding gown to make a christening dress for her unborn daughter. After so long, the condition of the fabric is a concern. Fortunately the bride preserved it well. Re-using the satin brocade brings a beautiful fabric out of a closet and puts...