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Revised and updated. Remodel Plumbing focuses on the challenges of working in tight spaces like bathrooms and utility rooms, selecting the right fittings, fixtures, and materials and completing expert alterations to a home's existing water supply, drain, and vent systems. With a special section on emergency plumbing repairs, the book enables readers to stop leaks, shut down water lines, and avoid major damage associated with plumbing malfunctions. Remodel Plumbing also covers common plumbing upgrades and alterations in kitchens, bathrooms, utility rooms, basements, and additions.
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Author, artist, and fresh face in the woodworking community, Roshaan Ganief shares patterns and instructions for 40 attractive projects that can be cut on a scroll saw. The projects - which combine a simplistic, natural beauty with a modern flair - range from chic lighting accessories and wall art to stylish pendants, coasters, candle holders and more. A gallery of the author's work showcases the wide variety of items you can make by enlarging, reducing or simply altering patterns. Also included is an essential "Getting Started" chapter that will orientate new woodworkers to the capabilities and techniques for cutting wood - specifically intricate designs - on a scroll saw. Instructions for finishing details such as backing hardware for pictures, stands for frames, creating adjustable cording for pendants and more is included. Never has scrolling looked so stylish!
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Completely up-to-date with current code requirements, Code Check Plumbing is an invaluable guide to have on the job site! Referenced to the International Residential Code, Uniform Plumbing Code and Uniform Mechanic Code, it provides answers to hundreds of common plumbing-code questions.
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Solid advice on airtight attic access, constructing a gable dormer retrofit, installing disappearing attic stairs, seal and insulate an attic, add a second story, frame an elegant dormer, frame for skylights, and more.
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Whether youre just getting started or have been bidding jobs and meeting payroll for years, this practical manual will suggest unique ways to overcome your most persistent problems getting through a debt crisis: what to do when bills cant be paid, finding money and buying time, conserving income, trans ferring debt, handling creditors, choosing assets to liquidate, setting payment priorities, cash float techniques, alternatives to bankruptcy, dealing with lawsuits, judgments and liens and laying the foundation for recovery. Then theres building sales and profits using other peoples cash, becoming a great salesman,setting goals, using limited partnerships, building financial reserves, accurate estimating, calculating overhead, contingency and profit margins. Completely updated, including major new sections on the use of personal computers for bookkeeping, estimating and scheduling, and Web addresses that have additional useful information. You wont find conventional advice in this book. Instead, expect to learn whats really needed to survive, stabilize and thrive as a construction contractor.
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Beautiful photography enhances this book devoted to California's native oaks. Discusses the natural and cultural heritage of these trees.