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Discover the ultimate guide to tackling everyday plumbing issues with Homeowner’s Plumbing Handbook: Simple Repairs Made Easy. This practical and easy-to-follow book empowers homeowners to handle common plumbing problems like leaks, clogs, and faulty fixtures, saving time and money. Packed with step-by-step instructions, safety tips, and expert advice, it’s the perfect resource for beginners and DIY enthusiasts alike. Take control of your home’s plumbing with confidence—no professional required!

Learn how to easily replace a toilet with "How to Replace a Toilet: A Step-by-Step Guide for Homeowners." This comprehensive DIY guide walks you through selecting the right toilet, removing the old one, and installing a new one with confidence. Featuring expert tips, troubleshooting advice, and plumbing best practices, this book empowers homeowners to tackle their own bathroom upgrades while saving time and money. Perfect for beginners and seasoned DIYers alike!

Learn how to install a water heater like a pro with “How to Install a Water Heater: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide.” This comprehensive guide covers everything from choosing the right unit to safe installation techniques for gas, electric, and tankless water heaters. With easy-to-follow instructions, expert tips, and troubleshooting advice, this book is perfect for DIY enthusiasts and professionals alike. Save time and money by installing your water heater with confidence!

While discussing the context in which certain capital costs effectively create an obstacle to the implementation of sustainable building and design practices, Mr. Kobacker discusses many of the misconceptions and erroneous beliefs that must first be dispelled before any other steps can be taken. The internationally renowned sustainability expert then addresses the specific strategic vision he employs in maximizing a project's value while also minimizing its cost.

Minimalism is not as difficult and time consuming as it seems. It can be done even without professional expertise, and it may take only a few days.

Even the most skilled homemaker wants to get things done better and faster right? In this book, you’ll find loads of helpful DIY household hacks to keep your home looking its best,while expending less energy to keep it in tip top shape. As a homemaker, I believe that good home maintenance shouldn’t just be a boring obligation, it can also be fun, so I’ve included plenty of DIY cleaning and organizing ideas that make cleaning and organizing fun!

Valley View Senior Housing, built in 2019 in Napa County, California, is a very affordable community of 70 cottages. This groundbreaking homeless project was organized by American Canyon’s city government for older homeless people and homeless veterans of the area. This solution-oriented book shares the inspiring story of a compassionate and humane project. Imagine if every city could create one community like this - we could begin to make headway to solve the homeless problem.

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been shrouded in mystery: the first half of the century...

What makes everyday spaces work, how do they shape us, and what do they say about us? The spaces we live in - whether public areas, housing, offices, hospitals or cities - mediate community, creativity and our very identity, making us who we are. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us reveals the often imperceptible ways in which our surroundings influence our behaviour.

This audiobook's aim is to give you useful tips (75 of them) to live in a Tiny House. Perhaps you have seen Tiny Homes on websites or on news shows. They usually will show somebody driving a truck and hauling a small house behind it.

From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being. They affect our creativity, focus, and problem-solving ability and can make us sick - jeopardizing our future and dragging down profits in the process. Joseph Allen and John Macomber make a compelling case in this urgently needed book for why every business and home owner should make certain relatively low-cost investments a top priority.

Does your disaster preparation plan include security measures? When civilization fails and the desperate masses begin looting, they will come for your food, water, and life-sustaining supplies. This book tells you how to implement a complete plan for operational security and physical defense.

Written for novice and experienced DIY enthusiasts, this is an A-to-Z guide to ensure your success in turning a plain shipping container into a beautiful home.

Building a new house requires a lot of foresight—things will go wrong and the plan will most likely find itself derailed at one point or another. Although this is in many ways a natural occurrence, it doesn't have to be in any way catastrophic. With the right plan in place and a detailed map of how to progress through the entire process, no matter the curveballs you encounter, you’ll be able to seamlessly get back into the flow of things. It’s one thing to have the skills, but it’s another thing entirely to be able to apply them in a way that produces results.

Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints? Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character? For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, Japanese craftsmen used complex, interlocking joints to connect pieces of wood for structures and beams, helping to create a unique Japanese aesthetic that can still be seen in the works of modern masters like Shigeru Ban. Up until recent times, however, these techniques were often the carefully guarded secrets of family carpentry guilds.

One man's quest to seek out--and be inspired by--the great historic kitchens of Canada and the USA. John Ota was a man on a mission--to put together the perfect kitchen. He and his wife had been making do with a room that was frankly no great advertisement for John's architectural expertise. It...

What if I were to tell you the conventional career intelligence publicly available surrounding careers in construction has mostly held you back? This is the case for a few reasons. First, it’s incomplete and missing context. Second, it doesn’t provide a holistic approach to career development. And third, it’s missing all the internal work that’s first required to achieve career success, because we live from the inside out.

How many of us have been told after we graduated that what you studied in books is one thing, and how it works in reality is something different! This audiobook is a complete guide that takes you through all phases of a project.

Would you like to save up deposits, buy a property every few years, and (maybe) get financial freedom in a decade? Or would you rather do it in less than a year with none of your own money? It sounds almost unbelievable, but it’s totally achievable, and thousands of regular people are doing it all over the UK.

Many of us dream of a renovation project, but few would be brave enough to take on a 8,200-square-foot, 30-room, 5-storey Georgian mansion on only a shoestring budget. But that's exactly what Greg Penn did, buying the near-derelict Admiral's House and embarking on an ambitious restoration plan. In this inspirational, informative book, Greg tells the story of his remarkable home, its journey to restoration and the deep history the house and surrounding area offer, alongside snippets of advice, budget-friendly tools and hacks and an exploration of each room as he's unlocked history.