Finally, A STEP-BY-STEP How-To Manual for installing your very own PROFESSIONAL QUALITY SHADE SAIL. DIY Shades Details and Explains the best practice for sourcing and installing your very own Shades / Shadesails. Chapters include; Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Shadesails Chapter 2 - Planning for a Shadesail Chapter 3 - Shadesail Design Chapter 4 - Installing the Attachment Points Chapter 5 - Measuring Up for the Shadesail Chapter 6 - Fitting the Shadesail Chapter 7 - Shadesail Maintenance Also included at the back are lots of handy resources including; Measuring Guides. Technical Shadecloth Specifications. Fascier Fitting Guide. Contacts.

One of the biggest reasons to act as your own general contractor is the money you can save by investing your time and energy, also known as 'Sweat Equity, ' into your home-building experience. Another consideration that you need to keep in mind is the mental and emotional involvement, also known as 'Intellectual Effort, ' in building your own home. Whether you are having your home built for you, or you decide to act as your own general contractor, you need to keep in mind that both avenues have some stress involved because this is your home that is being built. While you may have heard some horror stories from people who have undertaken such a project, you will also feel a great sense of satisfaction, pride and fulfillment when your home is complete. How can I make that claim you ask? Simple. I have 40+ years of building experience. The key to acting as your own general contractor with the least amount of stress possible is being aware of the steps and procedures. This will make the process more enjoyable and it will save you 10's of thousands of dollars.

Save Money-or Make Money-by Doing It Yourself With the simple, step-by-step methods in Drain Cleaning 101, you will be able to save money-or even make money-by learning how to properly diagnose, unclog, and prevent common drain line blockages like a pro. Are you a handy homeowner who likes do-it-yourself projects? Maybe you're a property management company interested in minimizing cost and maximizing productivity by having your superintendents or handyman unclog ordinary drain line blockages in your rental units. Are you already a professional in the trade and looking for a helpful reference guide for your employees? Are you interested in starting your own drain cleaning business? If so, Drain Cleaning 101 is for you Learn how to unclog the most common drain line blockage-without depending on your local plumbing or drain cleaning provider. Once you've mastered the basics, your opportunities are endless...so why not do it yourself?

This book, written by a licensed contractor, is filled with several simple solutions to save you money on your manufactured home maintenance issues. In my experience, I've discovered that there are several differences between manufactured and site built homes. This book will guide you through the basic maintenance needs, as well as some home improvement ideas. It will save you time and money if you are " do it yourselfer" and send you in the right direction as far as locating parts and hiring the proper contractors unique to manufactured homes.

DO YOU Find study boring? Get drowsy while studying? Find it hard to focus and pay attention? If you said 'yes', this book shows you how to learn so you remember more for longer. Based on the science of how your brain works, the 8-step method described in Brainpower Smart Study is easy and effective. For the first time, you'll have a fail-safe way to encode information into your memory. Most students simply read and make notes. Apart from a quick review of these notes, they just hope for the best. Only at the moment of truth - the examination - do they realise what they don't know. Every student should read this book.

How To...'Make It Mine' is not just a book about home decorating; but it does provide a wonderful, lighthearted approach to decorating your home It creates an awareness of how our state of mind affects the world we live in, confirming the old adage that while "You may never reach the summit and for that you will be forgiven. But if you don't make at least one serious attempt to get above the snow line you will always regret it " 'Make It Mine' delves into the psyche so subtly that one barely notices they have been given a 'checkup from the neck up' about why we live the way we do in our own homes The book is filled with funny stories, sad stories and a million tips, tricks and ideas to help you navigate from a house to a home It is full of ideas and solutions for everyone from the college student to retirees. The ideas are bold, not old stuff. For motivating, inspiring ideas that teach you how to prevent becoming a victim as you locate and improve your home in today's economy; this is a must read This book is funny and happy, and is a worthwhile, down to earth endeavor that will bear wonderful fruit. It is filled with profound thoughts, inspiration and practical ideas for successful living.

Whether you're looking for help to hook up a cable box, troubleshoot a TV or Internet problem, or rewire your whole house for cable TV service, phone or Internet, look no further the "Cable TV Wiring" book can help you. Written with the "do-it-yourself" homeowner in mind, the following chapters break down the components that make up the cable TV system in your home. One secret every professional technician knows is, when it comes to years of trouble free service, forget all the technical jargon, sticking to the "basic fundamentals" is key. With help from name brands like IDEAL, NETGEAR, LEVITON, MONSTER, HDMI and EXTREME-BROADBAND, the Cable TV Wiring book offers plenty of pictures and easy to read text. It's a well-known fact that some stores are selling sub-standard wire and consumers are buying and installing sub-standard wire in their homes. Many times this poor wiring leads to poor service on your TV, phone and Internet. With the Cable TV Wiring book you will learn about differences in wiring, connectors and signal amplifiers, as well as how to make proper connections, which splitters to use, and the ones to avoid, plus much more. Many cable companies are charging customers to send a truck out to repair simple problems inside the home or problems caused by the customer. With a little know-how you can perform the most common repairs on you own. If this book saves you the cost of one service call, it will have paid for itself.

Any of us that have ever repaired things around the home have always run into the same question, how to do it right. Typically, our experience tells us what to do, but many of us have someone in our lives that questions how we do our repairs. We know that we are doing the repair correctly; we just need for our doubters to know we are doing the repairs correctly. That is where this book comes in. This home repair fact checking guide is an interactive way to show that what you are attempting, and how you are attempting it, is correct. On each page you will find a heading for a different type of repair, and underneath you will find a space to write in your repair and how you are doing it. Turn the page and on the back you will find confirmation of your methods. You can even tear the page out if you want to show that certain someone. As they say, if it's in print, it must be true.

Every day starts and ends with your home - an extension of yourself, which resembles the foundation of your true character and should bring out your best. This book will help you realize how organizing your home to reflect your true character can create inner peace and serenity. Time is extremely valuable and learning how to organize can support you in focusing on and achieving your most treasured goals. Here are some of the many things this book can offer you: -Sample forms to help you in your organizing process -Easy to read and understand -Simple, straightforward and effective information on home organization -Each paragraph throughout the book is summarized with a few key words for fast review -Understanding clutter, what it is and its consequences -How clutter accumulates -How clutter affects your state of being -Benefits of an organized home -Evaluating and defining how disorganization has impacted your life -Why disorganization occurs -What's holding you back from getting organized -How to motivate myself to organize -How to motivate my partner/children to organize -How to overcome and concur clutter -How to take back control of your home -How to organize the right way -How to set organization goals and deadlines -Steps to having an effective action plan -Step-by-step instructions for organizing each room in your house -How to declutter your home, one step at a time -How to effectively sort your items in each room -How to create functional spaces that reflect your true being -Understanding the purpose of the room -Understanding the emotional connection attached to each room -Support guide to direct you each step of the way -Useful insider tips and design ideas -Organizing templates to understand your needs -Organizing templates to set goals -Organizing templates for creating organizational systems -How to deal with incoming mail -How to be in control of your bills -How to create effective filing systems -How to maintain organization -How to stay organized -How to communicate effectively with partner (and children) -How to interact with teens that resist cleaning and organizing their room -Garage safety tips -Inspirational life messages that will empower you to take action Learn how to organize the following spaces in your home: Family Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Master Bedroom, Bedroom Closets and Dressers, Kids Bedrooms and Closets, Teens Room and Closet, Bathrooms, Home Office, Incoming Mail, Paying Bills, Filing, Laundry Room, Linen Closet, Garage, Basement and Attic, Old Photographs, Digital Photographs, and Memorabilia. Yes, You Can Organize Just Do It

An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage
When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set their sights instead on the purchase of a dilapidated house in the Sugarhouse section of Salt Lake City. With no homesteading experience and a full-blown quarter-life crisis on their hands, these perpetual grad students/waiters/nonprofiteers decide to seek salvation through renovation, and do all they can to turn a former crack house into a home. Dizzy with despair, doubt, and the side effects of using the rough equivalent of napalm to detoxify their house, they enter into full-fledged adulthood with power tools in hand.
Heartfelt and joyous, "Sugarhouse "is the story of how one couple conquers adversity and creates an addition to their family, as well as their home.

A self-help reference book, 'Maybe You CAN do it Yourself' covers a few basic things the average person can do on their own to keep their computers running, what you should not attempt yourself and what to look for in a computer company. If you have a computer and you feel intimidated by it; this book is for you. With easy to understand steps, this book will help make your computing environment less scary. But watch out After reading this book you may have to call yourself a geek too.

50 ways to get rid of bugs, rats and termites.

With high unemployment rates and the rising costs of food, clothing, and energy, it's often difficult to maintain a positive outlook. But there are ways to thrive and persevere through troubling economic times. In A How-to Book for Hard Times, author Gillian Kirkpatrick provides a plethora of tips for stretching your resources to meet your household needs.

Kirkpatrick, who was a child during World War II in Europe, learned firsthand how to combat hard times. Sharing personal anecdotes, she presents many tactics for making do. A How-to Book for Hard Times includes tips and information on:

● Making and following a menu guide
● Stocking up on basic supplies
● Preserving food
● Maintaining first aid supplies
● Purchasing clothing and mending supplies
● Using herbs
● Keeping up the home and vehicles

Hard times occur in many different ways, but with the advice and ideas presented in this how-to guide, life could become a little easier without breaking the budget.

Take a journey through your home from top to bottom. You'll be surprised by all the dirt you discover

Richard A. Slinde, a longtime domestic cleaner, has seen how messy homes can become during his more than thirty years of cleaning houses and apartments, both big and small. In "Domestic Olympics: The Ultimate Housecleaning Guide," Slinde provides step-by-step, room-by-room guidance for cleaning your home in fun and easy ways.

Each room is fair game for cleaning-your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and every nook and cranny in between. You'll learn time-saving cleaning routines specifically created for each room in your house. Along the way, you'll also discover how to evaluate cleaning products, wash your walls, shampoo your furniture, eliminate roaches and other pests, and engage in a top-to-bottom spring cleaning that will ensure you haven't missed a thing.

It doesn't matter whether you rent or own, whether you have a big family or live by yourself, "Domestic Olympics" provides practical tools and strategies that can make your life easier and your living quarters cleaner.

This book should prove helpful as a "how to" guide for a man working alone to build a strong, yet simple log cabin made to last. It can be a log cabin that a man can be proud to call his home or for a getaway home away from home on the weekend. I built the 13 by 41 foot cabin shell, including cutting down the trees and peeling off the bark, in three months while camping out in a tent. Cutting down the trees and peeling off the bark took more than half of the time in completing the shell of the cabin. It was hard work, but by using the trees on my property I saved money and it gave me a more satisfying feeling of accomplishment as I lived my dream. After about three months work the cabin was up and we moved from our tents into the cabin, however, the electrical wiring, well and plumbing, septic system, interior walls, chimney, and 8 by 28 foot add-on, which are covered in varying details (less on the wiring and plumbing) in this book, were worked on as I got the time and money. Overall, to complete the cabin, it took about four to five months time. The 757 square foot cabin was completed in about four months by working long hours, six days a week. The long camping experience was an ordeal for my wife, but my son and I enjoyed it. The plans contained in this book are designed to allow a man working alone to build a cabin in a short time that will last a life time. I give the basic plans for building the "shell" of the cabin. An additional chapter about building a pergola type patio cover out of red cedar is included at the end. 48 pictures are included. My first trip to Alaska was in 1981 when I went there looking for adventure and prospecting for gold. I wrote about that experience in the book: The Wild Still Calls To Alaska.

This easy-to-understand, straight-forward, approachable book, which is based upon important engineering concepts is intended to advance knowledge on the subject of shelter, one of man's basic needs. The reader can glean standardized information about the field of pre-purchase home inspections. This information will assist people in determining the condition of a home and in living a safer and happier life. The book includes a multitude of house plumbing, electrical, roofing, heating, foundation, and structural problems commonly encountered when scouring a home for potential purchase. Some building code and safety items have been presented as well. Many illustrations assist the reader to understand home inspection concepts. Additionally, it is THE guidebook for both professionals and novices alike, which serves to integrate the sound, relevant context of the issues oftentimes identified when purchasing a home. Practical Guide to Home Inspection will act as an invaluable resource to utilize when in the midst of the often challenging home buying process.

Ron Kamrowski has written this book to share the experiences of using a metal detector. Most writings of this nature deal with the workings of a metal detector, this work contains actual events to explain that there are literally millions of places to search. Untouched areas abound in the United States where history, although only dating a few centuries, can be discovered in your own backyard.

One of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, Beard provides a hand-on guide for building a variety of habitable structures in the wilderness and other difficult environments. Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties provides easy-to-follow instructions on building everything from tents to teepees to log cabins.

This book details the extraordinary uses of many ordinary household products found in any home. It is destined to become the "Master" of hints books and will likely become a staple of the American home. It comes highly recommended as an ALL OCCASIONS gift choice.

Homeowners hoping to reduce or eliminate dampness and moisture from their basements will benefit from these tips, tricks, and strategies. This book covers every aspect of basement moisture and dampness, from sources to solutions, including sump pumps, dehumidifiers, etc..

This book includes access to our web enhanced training website. Quizzes and certificates of completion available on the website to assess your progress. By reading this book you will learn from years of experience, but more importantly, you will eliminate many of the common mistakes that I see made as an instructor and mistakes that I have made along the way. I have also produced and included many of my free training videos and I have searched the internet for additional relevant videos and other resources that I believe will help you learn how to repair and paint your car or reach whatever your training goal is. You will also gain access to my web enhanced course that will help you excel through your training process. Module 1 - Safety Module 2 - Vehicle History Module 3 - Metal Straightening Module 4 - Body Fillers: Fiberglass Fillers Module 5 - Welding Module 6 - Plastic Repair Module 7 - Preparation: Sanding, Masking, Primer Module 8 - Paint: Spray Guns, Module 9 - Paint: Sealer, Base Coat, Clear Coat Module 10 - Detailing Module 11 - Paint Defects and Other Considerations Resources Resources For Modules (Additional Information) Industry Resources (For Technicians, Managers and Business Owners) Instructor Resources (For Instructors) Career (Career Information and Industry Associations) Estimating Products (Supplies, Tools, Other) DIY Mechanical (For The Do It Yourself Enthusiast) Student Resources Changing The Perception Of AutoBody 101 and More

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The difference between FINE Homebuilding and just Homebuilding is "Getting What You Want at a Price You Can Afford." Learn How AVERAGE People All Over The Country Are thinking "Out-Of-The-Box" and discovering That They CAN Actually Build Their Dream HouseTHEMSELVES They are stepping out and taking charge of their future in a way they NEVER knew they could . . . By becoming their OWN BUILDER Learn how any "average" person with LITTLE or NO building experience can successfully BUILD THEIR OWN HOME BY SUBCONTRACTING Let me show you how YOU can follow a straight-forward, step-by-step process subcontracting the building of your home as an "Owner-Builder" and potentially SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS by being your OWN BUILDER and coordinating the building process YOURSELF Thousands of people have done it, and SO CAN YOU And rather that paying a "service" a lot of money to show you how to do it, I'll give you the steps that explain the process of building a home from beginning to end. This is a 114-page book that is a step-by-step guide explaining how the "average person" can BUILD THEIR OWN HOME. NO LICENSE NECESSARY It includes detailed checklists and steps that will guide you . This is a guide MEANT for the "average person," WRITTEN by an "average person." BEST OF ALL . . . I want to make it clear that you can actually PAY YOURSELF what you would otherwise pay a building contractor to do for the same thing Even if you've ever just been curious to know IF you could possibly BUILD YOUR OWN HOUSE . . . and you'd like to just look into doing it someday, this is a great resource to get started