Product Description

With a fresh new design, new artwork and photography and whole new sections, this manual is a worthy successor to the renowned Complete DIY Manual. It is packed full of invaluable advice for anyone fixing, extending, decorating, renovating or building their home and garden. Whether you want to know how to rewire your house or build a deck, repair a faulty ball valve or mend a hole in plasterboard, wallpaper a stairwell or unblock a downpipe, it's all here. The completely revised and updated text reflects current best practices and the latest tools, techniques and materials. Also included is new material on assembling flat pack furniture, putting up plaster mouldings, adding decking to your garden, wiring computers and home entertainment systems and much more. Each section in this invaluable guide is clearly described with step-by-step instructions, drawings and diagrams for every project. This handsome book will save you hundreds of pounds and hours of effort - it has all the information you will ever need to keep your home in good condition. Every home should have one!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211622 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 512 pages

Review
Property Homes and Gardens. Includes a step-by-step guide to 36 key DIY projects and a ready reckoner for the estimating those all important material quantities brilliant for those of us who can never work out how many rolls of wallpaper we need. --Property Homes and Gardens

Optima. Described as the DIY Bible that no home should be without --Optima

Manchester Evening News. My Bible was the Reader's Digest Complete DIY Manual that I bought from a charity shop. Is has taught me things that I never dreamed I could do --Manchester Evening News

Customer Reviews

readers digest do it your self manual
This book was my bible when I moved into my first home.
What ever job I needed to do around the home, it was covered in detail and easy to understand.

Probably the definitive book on this subject.
This book is fantastic. It was bought for me by my dad when I bought my first house and it is one of the most useful books i own. It covers most subjects you are likely to need in any home DIY situation, as well as garden DIY and relevant legislation that may affect your DIY projects. I cannot stress enough how invaluable this book is and how often I've referred to it, even if I've decided I'm not confident enough to tackle the problem and call in an expert. A must have along side your tool kit.

I saved thousands.
Honestly, the money this book saved me in being able to do-it-myself, or in other cases, know when a cowboy builder was trying it on must have saved me thousands over the course of just the last couple of years.

This book is so clear and easy to use because it breaks diy jobs down into their constituent parts. I never do any diy without checking the topic in my readers digest 'bible' first.

I am very happy to reccomend it.