Product Overview
Fully updated home carpentry, construction, and remodeling instruction
This thoroughly revised, DIY guide takes you through every step of home construction, including remodeling, building additions, and making household repairs. Discover how to select tools, pour foundations, build walls and floors, and install tileseven handle electrical wiring, plumbing, and insulation! Easy-to-follow instructions, along with more than 1,500 photos and illustrations, clearly demonstrate each technique. Logically organized by building stages, this new edition features the latest tools and materials, information on environmentally friendly building practices, many new and updated images, and a brand new chapter on painting.
Carpentry and Construction, Sixth Edition, shows how to tackle:
Site preparation
Footings and foundations
Concrete slabs and floors
Floor frames
Walls and roof framing
Windows and doors
Exterior and interior walls
Electrical Wiring
Plumbing
Insulation
Paint selection and painting techniques
Interior finishing
Kitchen and bathroom remodeling
Tile setting
Solar heating installation
Termite prevention
Installation of Skylights
Fences, decks, and patios
Private water and sewage systems
And much more
