Repair & Maintenance Guide: eBooks

This comprehensive guide provides a year-round plan for maintaining and repairing your home, preventing costly repairs and ensuring the safety and functionality of your living space. From checking and repairing siding and roofing to inspecting and servicing heating and cooling systems, this guide covers a wide range of home maintenance tasks to keep your home in top condition.

The Family Handyman's 100 Things Every Homeowner Must Know gives you the knowledge you need to be a better homeowner. You'll make informed decisions, avoid frustrations and save thousands over the life of your home.

John Carruthers, legendary guitar builder and repair guru to the stars, has teamed up with Alfred to produce this ultimate beginner's guide to guitar repair and maintenance.

Packed with everything you need to succeed, this best-selling book features clear explanations and high-quality illustrations to help you master automotive systems theory, plus step-by-step instructions for hands-on troubleshooting and repair procedures. Carefully aligned to the latest ASE Education Foundation requirements and standards, this comprehensive guide covers all eight major course areas of automotive technology, so you can develop the knowledge and skills to launch your career as a professional automotive technician.

The Family Handyman's Whole House Repair Guide gives readers the know-how and confidence to tackle repair jobs, save money and avoid the hassles of service calls. We cover all of the most common repairs from floors to ceilings, from paint to plumbing. Indoors or out, large or small, this is the guide you need to do the job right.

The updated and highly illustrated guide to understanding how just about everything in your house works. With richly illustrated explanations of electrical systems, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, major household appliances, foundation, framing, doors, and windows.

From quick fixes like linking broken chains and patching drywall to more involved projects like replacing a fuel line and bleeding your brakes, Popular Mechanics How to Fix Anything is the handy and reliable go-to guide for the most common household problems offering a primer on plumbing, unexpected hacks like using a golf tee to fill a stripped screw hole, instructions for tuning up the garage door, and so much more.

This newly up-to-date edition of the best-selling DIY reference Small Engines and Outdoor Power Equipment offers them same great comprehensive and illustrated instruction but with new and improved content for todays motorised equipment.

The most complete home improvement manual on the market, this newly updated edition of Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement offers thousands of photos, 800 drawings, and understandable, practical text. Readers will find essential instruction on plumbing and electrical repairs, heating and cooling, roofing and siding, cabinets and countertops, and more.

A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home economics teachers, if you'd had them.