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While we try to be comprehensive in what we cover on the diydata.com website, we don't (yet!!) cover everything, so here are a few books of further advice for you - or for presents for others.
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Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating: Using Paint, Stain and Wallpaper in Home Decor
"The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating" is a comprehensive source of information on all DIY techniques for home decor: interior painting, wallpapering, and staining. In addition, it provides a practical introduction to the basics of home decor design and colour theory. This is a substantially revised edition of one of CPI's best-selling home decor books, previously hardly available outside the USA. This new book features updates of all the tried and tested techniques, plus classics projects using the latest tools, today's most popular patterns and colours, and new, indemand techniques. "The Complete Guide to Painting and Decorating" includes 20 projects, showing DIY-ers how to achieve popular new painting and decorating effects, from plaster skim-coating to wallpapering; geometric paint effects to antique staining. It is the must-have book to turn DIY ideas into reality. |
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| Painting
and Decorating
This book provides all the technical information needed by the trainee painting and decorating student and supports knowledge evidence for NVQ Levels 2 and 3.The new edition includes new developments in tools and equipment, materials, scaffolding and health and safety. |
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| Painting
and Decorating
Assuming no prior experience of the trade, Roy Hughes details the underpinning knowledge of the materials, tools and techniques required for successful painting and decorating, and provides step-by-step guidance towards developing the essential skills required for anyone wishing to embark on a career in decorative occupations. The reader is guided through each of the key areas and processes in the field, with additional emphasis placed on Health & Safety. Written by the author of the CITB/City & Guilds Level 2 Technical Certificate, the book fully covers the syllabus requirements for the Intermediate Construction Award (painting and decorating route) and the Decorative Occupations NVQ at Level 2. Readers will find the topic Colour in Decoration – a critical aspect of actual painting and decorating practice – is also addressed, making this essential reading for Modern Apprentices in the trade, as well as serving as a useful reference for qualified painters and decorators. The book is designed to maximise accessibility of the text for the reader. Activities, key points, and ‘test your knowledge’ questions (for use during college/centre training), feature throughout the text to allow application of theory into practical contexts. An additional answer section at the back of the book aids self-assessment, enabling the reader to revise all key concepts that have been introduced. |
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| "Reader's
Digest" Home Decorating Manual
This handy book gives expert guidance on home decorating - from painting walls and woodwork to tiling, wallpapering and laying laminate flooring. Expert advice and illustrated step-by-step instructions provide all the practical know-how you need to achieve professional-looking results. Find out how to prepare surfaces before painting, remove old wallpaper and tiles and fill holes and cracks. Learn the different painting techniques for gloss and emulsion paint and for using brushes, rollers and paint pads. You'll also discover the best method for hanging wallpaper, including how to deal with corners and awkward spaces, as well as cutting tiles and grouting. And a section on floors covers everything from sanding floorboards to laying vinyl floor tiles. Each project in the book is clearly laid out with step-by-step instructions, photographs and diagrams. And there is also clear guidance on the best tools and materials to use for each job. Here, in one volume, are all the practical techniques and expert tips that you need to know when decorating your home, whether you're painting a door frame, tiling a new bathroom, or varnishing wooden floorboards. |
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| Tiling
(For Pros, by Pros)
This book gives you the technical expertise and seasoned advice you must have to expertly plan, lay out and install tiles throughout your house. From simple to elaborate, easy to complex and challenging, the editors of "Fine Homebuilding" magazine cover a huge range of tiling projects, techniques and issues, and give you the technical help and design inspiration you need to plan and execute a range of tiling projects like: tile a shower with marble; install a leakproof shower pan; install glass tiles; tile a bathroom floor; cut and grout ceramic tiles; tile a kitchen counter and backsplash; and tile over a laminate counter. "For Pros, By Pros" series: written by professional builders who actually do the work, then offer the very best design and construction advice plus building site-proven tips and techniques. "Professional Building Guides": these are the very best books in Taunton's highly successful home-building backlist, completely revised and updated, redesigned and now illustrated in full colour. "Fine Homebuilding" is the leading international journal for home builders. |
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| Ceramic
and Stone Tiling: A Complete Guide
Some tiling books adopt a hypothetical stance to the subject. This book rejects this approach and demonstrates how a do-it-yourself enthusiast can carry out a tiling job to a high standard in situations that exist in the real world. Covers all the basic processes from designing the job through to the final grouting and cleaning down. Procedures, that are of vital importance, such as setting-out, are covered in considerable detail. The reader is told what can go wrong and given advice. Attention is also paid to tiling with terracotta, marble, slate and granite, that involve slightly different techniques compared to ceramic tiling. Presents highlighted, useful 'tips' throughout the text Well-illustrated with detailed, step-by-step colour photographs and diagrams. |
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How
To DIY - Tiling
A do-it-yourself guide to tiling. |
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