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HVAC Level 2 Trainee Guide

NCCER · Pearson
Pages: 744
Format: Paperback

This exceptionally produced trainee guide features a highly illustrated design, technical hints and tips from industry experts, review questions and a whole lot more! Key content includes: Commercial Airside Systems, Chimneys, Vents, and Flues, Introduction to Hydronic Systems, Air Quality...
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Clutter Intervention: How Your Stuff Is Keeping You Stuck

TISHA MORRIS · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Go beyond basic decluttering and get to the root of why you have such a hard time getting rid of your stuff. Clutter Intervention will teach you about the psychological, emotional, and energetic components underlying your possessions, making it easier for you to let go and live authentically....
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Building with Secondhand Stuff, 2nd edition: How to Reclaim, Repurpose, Re-use & Upcycle Salvaged & Leftover Materials

CHRIS PETERSON · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

From Craig's List, your basement, and estate sales, you can salvage what you need to upcycle all kinds of cool things. You can build tables, install vintage hardwood floors and salvaged windows, mason reclaimed stone walls, and do much more using free or very inexpensive, high-quality,...
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Grow Something Different to Eat: Weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables for your garden

MATTHEW BIGGS · DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Discover more than 50 out-of-the-ordinary edibles, from cucamelons to strawberry popcorn, in this seed-to-plate guide that inspires you to cultivate amazing new fruit and vegetable crops.Whether you're a beginner and determined to make the most of limited space with a truly unique and heirloom...
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Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees

Lori Weidenhammer · Douglas and McIntyre
Pages: 226
Format: Print book

Who knew modern civilization may be brought down, not by plagues or war, but by bees? Or, more correctly, by no bees? This book investigates the growing problem of bee mortality and offers practical measures we can all take to help. In ecological terms, bees play a critical role in the survival...
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Smart Guide®: Basements: Step-by-Step Projects

Mark Feirer · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback

Smart Guide®: Basements provides readers with the information they need to convert their dark, dreary basements into bright, airy living spaces. Readers learn how to eliminate moisture problems, change rough concrete walls and floors into finished surfaces, hide pipes and wiring, and bring...
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will...
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Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables: A Visual Guide to Raising and Harvesting Prime Garden Produce

Cool Springs Press · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Is It Ripe?Even the most experienced homegrowers get a little apprehensive when harvest time comes around. You've spent so much time and energy and money to grow beautiful produce and now the moment of reckoning is at hand. Savvy shoppers looking for the best produce have similar concerns...
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A Modern Guide to Knifemaking: Step-by-step instruction for forging your own knife from expert bladesmiths, including making your own handle, sheath and sharpening

Laura Zerra · Quarry Books
Pages: 160
Format: Flexibound

In A Modern Guide to Knifemaking, well-known survivalist Laura Zerra shares her essential knifemaking tips and tricks, including step-by-step instructions for both forging and stock removal. We all use a knife pretty much every day, but for Zerra, her daily life often depends on the blade...
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Install Your Own Solar Panels: Designing and Installing a Photovoltaic System to Power Your Home

Joe Burdick · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

Labor and related costs account for more than half of the price of the average home solar installation. But homeowners can save thousands of dollars with this user-friendly manual, which follows the same process professional contractors use. Through detailed directions and step-by-step...
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Fix Your Garden: Get Your Outdoor Space Blooming in No Time at All

Jane Moseley · Portico
Pages: 111
Format: Print book

Don't know what to do with a messy garden or bleak-looking balcony? Want to stake your claim on a little corner of a shared garden? No gardening experience whatsoever? This book is the perfect solution. Packed with tips and tricks to get your green fingers going, this beautifully illustrated...
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Junk Beautiful: Furniture ReFreshed: 30 Clever Furniture Projects to Transform Your Home

Sue Whitney · Taunton Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Re-using and re-inventing vintage castoffs as home furnishings take center stage in today's home decor, as these one-of-a-kind treasures create uniquely personal spaces. Best-selling author and junking maven Sue Whitney unleashes her JUNKMARKET Style on furniture and accessories that make...
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Finish Carpentry

Ted Cushman · Taunton Press
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback

The For Pros By Pros titles are compilations of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine, selected by the editors of the magazine and organized by subject. New articles from recent issues of the magazine have been added to this edition of Finish Carpentry. Updated and redesigned throughout,...
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Build It Yourself: Weekend Projects for the Garden

Frank Perrone · Princeton Architectural Press
Pages: 191
Format: Paperback

Are you into gardening, DIY, or organic living? Looking to branch into woodworking? Build It Yourself: Weekend Projects for the Garden will help you to do just that. Accompanying you every step of the way, from the local home goods store to your workshop or table, Build It Yourself is a fun,...
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Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 4th Updated Edition

Editors of Creative Homeowner · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

Save money by making minor and major plumbing repairs and improvements yourself, with help from this complete home plumbing guide! More than 800 photos Detailed how-to diagrams Learn how to skills, from fixing leaky faucets to soldering copper tubing like a pro Save money and resources...
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