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BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Sheds Updated 4th Edition has the perfect plan for building your own tool shed, habitable shed, garden shed, and many other types of sheds.

 With more than 20 complete building plans, the most popular plans from previous editions are preserved, from small garage-style sheds with overhead doors, to kit sheds, to contemporary utility sheds with a dramatic flair. This new edition delves into new styles that are drawing strong interest today, including tiny sheds, miniature tool sheds, and even small habitable sheds that are designed to function as a private home office or a quiet retreat for practicing a particular hobby or activity. As with all of the hardworking, practical sheds from earlier editions, the new varieties include full-color step-by-step photos, complete building plan drawings with cutting lists, and clear how-to instructions. Other shed projects include: • Garbage & Recycling Shed 
 • Bike Shed 
 • Gothic Playhouse 
 • Salt Box Storage Shed 
 • Sunlight Garden Shed 
 Shed-building, like any other building process, starts with good techniques. That’s why the general skills section has been updated and improved. With this complete guide, you can build just about any shed you dream of. Plus, you’ll find information on new tools and products that will make your project go faster and more smoothly.

 Rounded out with helpful information on important considerations like siting and zoning, BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Sheds Updated 4th Edition truly is a complete guide to this very popular DIY activity.

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The Complete Guide to Sheds Updated 4th Edition: Design and Build a Shed: Complete Plans, Step-by-Step How-To

Philip Schmidt

This third edition of BLACK+DECKER The Complete Photo Guide to Treehouses covers every aspect of treehouse building, from choosing a tree and safety considerations to adding interior furniture and even a zip line.

Featuring extended building techniques in step-by-step photo-illustrated instruction.

For kids, a treehouse is a room that never has to be cleaned, a place for muddy shoes and bug jars and adventures real and imagined; a house that you can paint whenever and however you want, without gaining approval. For adults, it’s a room that never has to be cleaned, a place for muddy shoes and…well, you get the idea. But best of all a treehouse is up in a tree. And that’s just cool.

Filled with inspiring photos of finished treehouses and easy-to-follow instructions for building your own, learn with your family treehouse basics—choosing a tree, planning and design, treehouse safety—followed by building techniques for: • Platforms designed for various tree configurations

• Framing and finishing walls and railings
• Finishing interiors with paneling, shelves, and flip-down tables and bunks
• Doors, both classic and in fun shapes
• Windows, including shutters and pop-ups
• Building and framing roofs
• Modes of access, including ladders, stairs, trap doors, and a fireman’s pole
• Playthings, including swings, a zip line, a rock climbing wall, slides, and more

You can get started right away by following the complete plans and step-by-step photos for making your choice of two popular treehouse designs: an open-air treehouse and a gable house with entry deck. To give you even more to choose from, you will find fully developed plans for all treehouse types included that you can adapt to your particular trees and wishes.

Build the treehouse you and your kids have always dreamed of with BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Treehouses 3rd edition.

Black & Decker The Complete Photo Guide to Treehouses 3rd Edition: Design and Build Your Dream Treehouse

Mark Johanson

The Hardworking Home presents a wide range of achievable home improvements that will help you upgrade your home to better meet your needs in this shifting world. 

 From home office to home school to home entertaining, today’s households have necessarily become functional microcosms of society. Before the pandemic, less than five percent of full-time employees worked remotely from home. At the height of the outbreak, more than half did. And even when the dust has settled, it is estimated that at least a quarter of us will be performing our jobs from offices in our homes. Distance learning also will endure as an important educational tool. And while we back into less restrictive social distancing guidelines, it nevertheless makes sense to create a fun, vibrant atmosphere for entertaining ourselves and our guests within the safe confines of our homes. 

 Some of the projects in The Hardworking Home are quite simple and others require a little more DIY experience. But the overriding commonality is that they have been curated with the forward-looking filter of making our lives better, more efficient, and more satisfying in a changing world landscape. Content includes: 

Introduction

 • How we got here 
 • Goals and considerations 
 • Where to work? 
 • Distance learning 
 • Multipurpose spaces 
 • Repurposing what you already have 

Adapting Space

 • Lamps and lighting choices 
 • Wall color and painting 
 • Practical home décor 
 • Noise reduction 
 • Air quality and whole-house ventilation 
 • Furnishings 
 • Separation tips for open spaces 
 • Making room for recess and relaxation 
 • Private spaces for external communication 
 • Work-related meeting areas 
 • Technology issues (Wi-Fi and beyond) 
 • Ergonomic solutions for working at the dining table 
 • Protecting furnishings and surfaces 
 • Efficient ways to stash your stuff 
 • Working together 
 • Convertible work spaces and desktops 
 • Partition wall 
 • Modifying countertops and cabinets 
 • Tambour hideaway (protecting electronics and equipment) 
 • Pantry conversion 
 • Island bumpout 
 • Slide-out work surfaces (and keyboard trays, printer bays, etc.) 
 • Under-cabinet lighting 
 • Under-cabinet storage 
 • Cord management 
 • Adapting dining rooms 
 • Adapting kitchens 
 • Adapting family rooms 
 • Creating activity/recess areas 
 • Movable work centers 
 • Dividing space 
 • Workspace under loft bed 
 • Corner workspace 
 • Creating living/working space separation 
 • Adapting bedrooms 
 • Renovating a spare room 

Creating Space

 • Renovating a spare room (Features: ways to improve lighting) 
 • Creating an office in an unfinished basement (Features: furring walls, suspended ceiling, raised subfloor panels) 
 • Closet office conversion 
 • Renovating a garage (Features: garage floor refinish, new garage window, garage skylight, storage projects) 
 • Making an outbuilding habitable (Features: making a shed livable) 
 • Feature project: closet office 

Easy DIY Projects

 • Rolling 
 • Modular 
 • Drop-down 
 • Kids 
 • Space-saving 
 • Rolling 
 • Hidden 
 • File-friendly 
 • Room dividers 
 • Plexiglass protectors 
 • Carrel curtains 
 • Desks 
 • Storage 
 • Privacy barriers

Black & Decker The Hardworking Home: A DIY Guide to Working, Learning, and Living at Home

Be inspired by new design and follow the latest codes as you custom build the deck of your dreams.

Architecture, building codes, and design are not static; they change constantly. That’s why there’s a new edition of the best-selling BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks, incorporating updates to national building codes, as well as new developments in building materials and design. Calling attention to composite deckboards and railings, as well as other PVC products made from recycled plastic, the new materials systems featured in this book are environmentally friendly, easy to work with, rot resistant, and very low maintenance.

Whether you opt for manufactured deck products or wood, the success of your project depends upon a sturdy deck undercarriage. Accomplishing this isn’t difficult, but building the framework requires that you have the latest information on building codes. In recent years, these codes have changed significantly, affecting everything from post diameter to allowable joist hangers to railing height and even the size of concrete footings. BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks Updated 7th Edition is the only DIY deck book that’s fully updated to conform to the latest codes.

Chapters covered in the book include:

 • Deck Planning & Design
 • Deck Materials & Tools
 • Structural Support
 • Decking
 • Stairs
 • Railings
 • Accessories
 • Finishing & Maintaining Your Deck
 • Custom Deck Projects
 • Gallery of Inspiring Decks

BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Decks Updated 7th Edition offers complete step-by-step photos and instructions, so even homeowners with limited DIY experience are assured of a deck that meets their needs. So, don’t wait any longer; build the deck of your dreams and start enjoying it!

Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Decks 7th Edition: Featuring the latest tools, skills, designs, materials & codes

The most complete book on the market for homeowners, the BLACK+DECKER The Book of Home How-To, Updated 2nd Edition offers current, full color step-by-step photographic instruction for thousands of home repair and home maintenance jobs.

 Written and compiled by the knowledgeable editors at Cool Springs Press—recognized experts in DIY home improvement and maintenance with more than thirty years of experience in home improvement and hundreds of best-selling books under the BLACK+DECKER brand—this is DIY instruction you can trust.

BLACK+DECKER The Book of Home How-to, Updated 2nd Edition is the ultimate reference for maintaining any type of home, from a small apartment to a mega mansion. This book is the most essential tool in any homeowner's belt, providing expert know-how on how to repair almost anything in easy, accessible instruction.

 This A-to-Z encyclopedia offers precise how-to instructions and clear photos on every page. With an expanded index that is incredibly intuitive and a simple, alphabetical strategy for organizing the information, you won't spend precious time wading through stuff you don't need to know.

 Finding first-rate information on home care has never been easier, and all the most common tasks around your home are covered—including:

 • Electrical
 • Plumbing
 • Flooring
 • Walls
 • Windows and doors
 • Cabinetry
 • Insulating
 • Heating and cooling 
 • Roofing and siding

And that's just scratching the surface. Just about any repair or remodeling project you can imagine is right here, at your fingertips.

Black & Decker The Book of Home How-to, Updated 2nd Edition: Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair & Improvement

BLACK+DECKER™ The Book of Home How-To Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Buildingis jam-packed with popular projects for better backyard living. From building an attached wood deck or a patio to designing and creating a shed or pergola, you’ll see exactly how to get the job done in this illustrated guidebook. 

 Complete plans, including technical illustrations and even cutting and shopping lists, will lead you through the building process, punctuated by clear step-by-step photographs and how-to descriptions. 

 If you value entertaining, recreating, or growing vegetables and flowers in your own yard, you will find everything you need to create the structures and hardscaping that support your interests. The projects are all selected based on more than 30 years of publishing BLACK+DECKER™ books for the home DIYer. The most requested and most frequently chosen backyard projects are all included. Among them are: 

 • Attached wood deck 
 • Patios of multiple types 
 • Sheds 
 • Raised planting beds 
 • Pergolas and trellises 
 • Garden walls 
 • And more! 

 If you are ready to up your backyard game, Outdoor Building is just the spark you need to get started.

Black & Decker The Book of Home How-To Complete Photo Guide to Outdoor Building: Decks • Sheds • Garden Structures • Pathways

BLACK+DECKER™ Home How-To Home Repair provides rich, color step-by-step photos and instruction for over 50 of the most common household repairs, including wiring and plumbing, all current with the latest 2019–2020 codes—presented in a new, user-friendly design for today's homeowners.

 For more than 30 years, BLACK+DECKER™ has been the leading brand in home improvement books. BLACK+DECKER™ Home How-To Home Repair still features the clear, step-by-step photography that this family of books is known for, but the design and pages have been completely updated to be more open and make sense with how homeowners—and first-time homeowners, in particular—seek information today. Along with wiring and plumbing fixes, you will find how-to guidance for other common repairs to walls, floors, ceilings, windows, and doors.

Black & Decker The Book of Home How-To Complete Photo Guide to Home Repair: Wiring - Plumbing - Floors - Walls - Windows & Doors

Replacing the roof on your house is an achievable job that can be very rewarding: all you need is good information and a willingness to invest some sweat equity. BLACK+DECKER DIY Roofing gives you the information you need, from selecting and estimating roof coverings to tear-off, sheathing replacement, underlayment and water shield installation, roofing materials installation, and flashing. 

 While a contractor's hardworking crew can replace an average asphalt shingle roof in a day or two, it will cost several thousand dollars. And your roof covering choices are rather limited. By doing the job yourself, you can pocket the savings or even upgrade to an entirely new type of roof, like cedar shakes, standing seam metal, or fiber cement.

 With detailed step-by-step photos, you will see all of the most popular roof types installed the correct way, including: • Asphalt shingles (three-tab and architectural)
 • EPDM rubber membrane
 • Metal
 • Cedar shakes
 • Clay and concrete tile
 • Roll roofing
 • Faux slate
This guide also shows you how to install other elements of your roof system, including gutters, fascia, soffits, and vents. A handy repair section helps ensure that your work keeps your home well protected for as long as possible. Plus, a special section on working safely features all the tools and practices you'll need to stay secure working at heights.

Black & Decker DIY Roofing: Shingles • Shakes • Tile • Rubber • Metal • PLUS Roof Repair

BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Bathrooms brings you design advice, how-to instructions, and all the facts you need to achieve the bathroom of your dreams on your own.

This fifth edition of the perennial bestseller from the BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide series covers all the bases when it comes to bathroom remodeling. From freshening up decor to a down-to-the-studs remodel, all of the information you need to design the job and do the work yourself is right here.

 Through step-by-step photography and instructions, you'll see how to update lighting, ventilation, flooring, surfaces, cabinetry, toilets, bathtubs, and accessories. This comprehensive buyer's guide takes you through one of the most important steps in any remodeling project, and a complete and up-to-the minute section on bathroom design provides education and inspiration.

 This new edition of BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide to Bathrooms also includes updated information explaining how to remodel or re-imagine your bathroom to better meet the needs of aging in place, with projects that conform to Universal Design Standards. You'll see a start-to-finish demonstration on how to replace a shower or tub with a curbless shower stall.

 To maximize access, a wall-mounted sink is hung and hooked up - and you see every step. Replace a traditional bathroom sink faucet with a hands-free model so you can turn on the water even if you can't reach all the way to the faucet handle. Add a frameless glass shower surround and learn how to install and plumb a vanity cabinet and sink basin. The list of projects is long and the information, vetted by the experts at BLACK+DECKER, is complete and current.

Black & Decker Complete Guide to Bathrooms 5th Edition: Dazzling Upgrades & Hardworking Improvements You Can Do Yourself

On the surface, grilling, barbecuing, and tailgating are about cooking mouthwatering food. But there’s a deeper reason millions of Americans love to grill: it’s really about entertaining and, might we suggest, showing off. This one stop resource is filled with clever, impressive projects that you can make yourself to blow your grilling buddies away. 

 You won’t believe the number of ways you can construct your own custom grill, smoker, or accessories. They can be built with bricks, steel barrels, old refrigerator cabinets, and much more. They can be put on trailers for your tailgating needs, and you can build custom surrounds for your grill or smoker to provide much needed work space. BLACK+DECKER Custom Grills & Smokers tells you how to build all kinds of grills and smokers from easy-to-get, inexpensive objects and materials. 
 
 From an old-fashioned brick barbecue, to a pit to roast a whole hog, or even a 55-gallon drum to be converted to a Texas barrel smoker, tons of projects are at your disposal with full color, step-by-step instructions. Guaranteed to satisfy at any cookout or tailgate party, and definitely primed to blow away your grilling buddies.