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Get started on your woodwork practice with this ultimate guide to essential carpentry skills, techniques, tools, tips, and tricks. Complete and easy directions for key skills, from simple joinery techniques to more involved woodworking projects, with clear helpful photographs. Key carpentry skills, from simple joinery techniques to fine woodworking projects, through clear, step-by-step instructions and photographs. New carpenters will learn about the essential tools needed and the principles...

Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in back gardens throughout the country - in the suburbs, rural towns, and even in cities. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly designed coop. Just like houses, chicken coops come in all sizes and styles to meet the needs of any chicken family. Author Judy Fangman has combed the country identifying the top chicken coop designs, from utilitarian to high-style. The result is thi...

This comprehensive, information-packed course introduces the reader to a full range of woodworking tools and skills through a series of progressively challenging furniture projects. Step-by-step photographs, detailed plans, and cutting lists accompany each project, demonstrating all the basic woodwork techniques. Techniques include: shaping techniques - using hand and power tools; choosing timber - how to select and prepare wood for different projects; finishing techniques - putting the finishin...

Nothing defines a room quite like trim. No matter how young or old your home, no matter what your personal style, trim can make your rooms look better and (more importantly) fell better. This book showcases hundreds of ideas for using trim of all types and materials to transform ordinary spaces into special rooms: Trim Basics Relief for Walls. Accent on Ceilings. Adornment for Doors. Window Enhancements. Rise and Fall of Staircases. * Brimming with visual inspiration and illustrated with hundre...

House framing can be an intimidating challenge. Thousands of pieces of wood must be cut to precise dimensions, according to a set of plans. Accurate and safe assembly is critical as the house must support the weight of building materials, equipment, appliances and people - there's simply no room for error. And yet, this comprehensive, accessible and highly visual book walks readers through this complicated process with ease. It's all here, from using the right tools and framing a first-floor dec...

This book is aimed at a wide readership of engineering consultants and contractors, local authority and factory engineers and as a reference to be housed in university, polytechnic and technical libraries. The text gives, in a practical manner, a comprehensive description of the various methods of distributing electrical supplies in industrial, commercial and domestic buildings. The book is part of the "Electrical Engineering Series", formerly published by Collins Professional publishers.

Active and Passive Environmental Controls: Informing the Schematic Designing of Buildings is written for the architecture audience. It primarily addresses how to design and construct buildings to satisfy occupants' physical and physiological needs. The text serves as an introduction to the sub

More eggs, less work! And more enjoyment for both the chickens and their keeper! That’s the promise of Frank Hyman’s Hentopia. From the Vending Machine Feeder to the Refilling Rainwaterer, Hyman’s innovative building projects are designed to save time and money, while keeping chickens safe, healthy, clean, and well-fed. All 21 of the projects for the chicken yard feature easy-to-follow instructions and colorful photos, including creative doorways, nest boxes, fencing, roosts, as well as a preda...