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Thursday, May 15, 2008 One Stop Shopping for Construction Books, Code Books, Contractor Tools & Equipment |
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Concrete & Cement |
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2008 National Concrete & Masonry Estimator |
Current labor and material prices for thousands of concrete and masonry jobs and specialty items. Don’t waste hours working up a material list for every job you bid. Instead, use this manual to develop quick, accurate cost estimates. Do the material take-off only when you have the contract. Provides manhours, recommended crew, and gives the labor cost for installation. Includes a CD-ROM with an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating program
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Bob Harris’ Guide to
Concrete Overlays & Toppings |
Become an expert in concrete overlay and topping - Learn from this practical instruction manual how to rejuvenate concrete floors, driveways, exterior flatwork, and even wall surfaces. Offer your customers beautiful alternatives to costly removal and replacement of old concrete. Here you’ll find detailed application techniques for concrete on different surfaces, and how to select the most appropriate resurfacing system for each project. You’ll learn how to estimate materials, prep and prepare surfaces, repair cracks, and test for moisture-vapor transmission.
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Bob Harris' Guide to Stained Concrete Interior Floors |
Learn how to turn concrete slabs into works of art your customers will cherish, and in return, reward you with a lifetime of repeat business. This new book shows you concrete design options available today, how to estimate costs of different techniques and compare those costs to other floor covering options such as carpet, wood floors, tile, or marble. Large color photos show how to correct problem floors, test your stain before beginning, apply dyes, grouts and sealers, and specialty techniques. Full of charts, helpful hints and step-by-step instructions.
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Bob
Harris' Guide to Stamped Concrete |
Become a concrete stamping expert with the practical tips in this book. Here you’ll find hundreds of ideas and sources for stamping designs. You’ll learn of site conditions affecting stamped concrete and how to avoid problems. Shows everything from preparing the subgrade to erecting forms, installing reinforcement, and placing the concrete. Gives different methods of stamping concrete, coloring stamped concrete, applying color hardener, release agents, installing expansion joints, and special techniques for finishing and sealing the concrete.
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ConcreteCalc Pro
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with protective hardcover case |
The only Calculator Designed Specifically for Concrete Construction Pros! - Use the calculator that is helping thousands of construction pro's save time, eliminate costly mistakes, and improve profits. The innovative ConcreteCalc lets you perform instant square-ups, layouts, accurately estimate material costs & volumes, and solve common construction problems like a pro. Why work another day without it?
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Concrete at Home |
From best-selling author Fu-Tung Cheng, the recognized master craftsman of residential concrete design, comes Concrete at Home, the follow up to his ground-breaking Concrete Countertops. In this new title, Cheng shows you the anything-is-possible flexibility of concrete, and gives you the step-by-step guidance and confidence to form, pour, and polish your own distinctive countertops, floors, walls, fireplaces, and more. Part design study, part instruction manual, Concrete at Home is packed with hundreds of photos .
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Concrete Countertops |
This book re-invents the countertop with a single material: concrete. Although this method of building kitchen and bathroom countertops is currently very popular, not one book on the subject exists -– until now. Enter Fu-Tung Cheng, master of design and construction. Here at last is a complete, start-to-finish book on creating concrete countertops. Cheng takes you step-by-step through the process of making a concrete countertop -- from building the mold and mixing and pouring concrete to curing, grinding, polishing, and installing the countertop.
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Concrete Countertops
DVD |
Watch a master of concrete countertops show you how to form, pour, and finish concrete countertops before your eyes. This video shows how to master the art of making custom concrete countertops that your customers will cherish for a lifetime. Every detail is covered from measuring, forming, mixing, pouring, and vibrating to fill voids, to finishing techniques for the final look you desire. You'll find sources for specialized countertop forms, dyes, and aggregate you can use in every concrete countertop job. Full of tips, helpful hints, and step-by-step instructions you won't find anywhere else. 110 minutes.
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Concrete Formwork |
Presents information regarding the safe construction of forms for residential, light commercial, and heavy construction with detailed step-by-step illustrations. This new edition presents various aspects of form construction ranging from site preparation through concrete placement to stripping forms. The Appendix and illustrated Glossary provide reference material, such as ACI and OSHA guidelines and regulations and the use of surveying instruments.
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Concrete & Formwork |
This practical manual has all the information you need to select and pour the right mix for the job, lay out the structure, choose the right form materials, design and build the forms, and finish and cure the concrete, Nearly 100 pages of step-by-step instructions show how to construct and erect most types of site-fabricated wood forms used in residential construction.
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Concrete Manual - Updated
to the 2006 IBC and ACI 318-05l
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Concrete Principles
- Textbook |
This full-color text provides a comprehensive overview of the tools, materials, and practices commonly used in the concrete industry. The content areas covered correlate with the established apprenticeship training programs. Each text contains an IBM-compatible CD-ROM in the back of the book that contains Chapter Quick Quizzes, an illustrated Glossary, and related web links to educational resources.
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Concrete Principles
- Workbook & Answer Key |
Concrete Principles Workbook is designed to reinforce information presented in the text. Each chapter in the Workbook covers information in the corresponding chapter in the textbook above. Activities included in each workbook chapter correlate to chapter content and reinforce comprehension of related concepts and math principles.
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Concrete Principles
- Resource Guide |
Valuable instructional tool designed for training in group settings. The Resource Guide provides an out-of-the-box approach designed for maximum flexibility. It is divided into sections for easy use in a classroom or seminar setting. The Resource Guide also includes a CD-ROM with electronic slides of all the illustrations from the textbook and web links to valuable instructional resources on the Internet. This truly is a complete instructional package for teaching concrete principles.
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Concrete Repair and Maintenance
Illustrated |
Hundreds of clear illustrations show users how to analyze, repair, clean and maintain concrete structures for optimal performance and cost effectiveness. From parking garages to roads and bridges, to structural concrete, this comprehensive book describes the causes, effects and remedies for concrete wear and failure. Invaluable for planning jobs, selecting materials and training employees
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Concrete Secrets
Driveways and Sidewalks - Video |
Concrete video series contains form setting, expansion placement, grading, ordering Ready-mix concrete, pouring, tamping, bullfloating, using a Walking Edger, jointing, using a Fresno, hard troweling, using a Walking Trowel, patching, brooming and formula for ordering Ready-Mix concrete for 4in. 6in. and 8 inch slabs. Video & Instructions
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DigiRoller Plus II -
Backordered Until April 2008 |
Digital Distance Measuring Wheel - Improved Durable, Hi-Tech Design and Folding Kickstand - Easy, One-Person Operation - Get fast, accurate measurements for all your on-site linear, area and volume estimates. Built-in functions automatically calculate and store square footage, cubic volumes and more for up to 9 different areas. Works and converts in all U.S. and Metric units. Weighs just 3 lbs. and includes convenient kickstand.
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Foundations
and Concrete Work - For Pros By Pros |
Details, design considerations, and specifications that guarantee a solid base for any structure. "Foundation work is not the glamorous side of home building. It is hard, dirty work. But it's also the work upon which all other work rests, and so a good foundation is critical to every home," writes Fine Homebuilding editor-in-chief Kevin Ireton in the introduction to Foundations and Concrete Work. And whether you are planning to build a new foundation, shore up an old foundation, or pour a new driveway, this collection of articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine will .
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Masonry & Concrete Construction Revised |
This is the revised edition of the popular manual, with updated information on everything from on-site preplanning and layout through the construction of footings, foundations, walls, fireplaces and chimneys. There’s an added appendix on safety regulations, with all the applicable OSHA sections pulled together into one handy condensed reference. There’s new information on concrete, masonry and seismic reinforcement. Plus improved estimating techniques to help you win more construction bids.
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RS Means Concrete & Masonry Cost Data
2007 Book |
For accurate, complete concrete/masonry estimating data.… The Means Concrete & Masonry Cost Data 2007 contains the latest unit price data, with illustrated concrete and masonry assemblies cost tables, helpful reference data and estimated aids. This is your guide to fast, accurate concrete and masonry estimating in 2007 -even if you've never done it before. also on CD-ROM + Combos available
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Working
With Concrete - For Pros By Pros |
A comprehensive guide to building with concrete. Whether you're pouring a concrete walkway or staking out the excavation for a basement foundation, doing the job right demands a thorough knowledge of concrete construction techniques. In Working with Concrete, veteran builder Rick Arnold explains everything from mix characteristics and formwork options to waterproofing details and repair procedures. You'll benefit from Arnold's years as a general contractor, framer, and foundation contractor as he offers time- and money-saving advice .
Masonry & Brickwork |
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Building With Masonry |
Get Expert Advice from the Pros on building with masonry, including brick, block and concrete. This book shows you how to estimate the job, layout the design, lay the brick or block, and finish the job. It also addresses the basics of concrete including mixing concrete and mortar, pouring footings, and forming and pouring a sidewalk.
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Complete
Guide to Home Masonry
by Black & Decker is the
most comprehensive and useful guide to masonry for today's
do-it-yourself homeowner. It even includes natural stone-a material
absent from many competitive titles. This book is the only resource
on the market that provides clear step-by-step instructions and
color photographs for building with the types of masonry materials
that are in demand today, including stone veneer, glass block,
concrete block, poured concrete, stucco, and brick. |
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Masonry & Concrete Construction Revised |
This is the revised edition of the popular manual, with updated information on everything from on-site preplanning and layout through the construction of footings, foundations, walls, fireplaces and chimneys. There’s an added appendix on safety regulations, with all the applicable OSHA sections pulled together into one handy condensed reference. There’s new information on concrete, masonry and seismic reinforcement. Plus improved estimating techniques to help you win more construction bids.
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Masonry Instant Answers |
THE EASIEST, FASTEST WAY TO ANSWER ANY MASONRY-RELATED CONSTRUCTION QUESTION! If you've been looking for a portable quick-reference that will help you do your job faster, better, and more economically, check out Masonry Instant Answers. Masonry Instant Answers delivers a no-nonsense, informational format packed with charts, tables, and figures -- just enough detail to get the job done. Perfectly sized for carrying on-site
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Masonry Skills, 5E |
a reader-friendly, comprehensive guide to basic information and advanced skills. Written by a Master Mason with over 40 years of professional masonry and construction experience, this all-new edition of today's best-selling guide to understanding and learning how to do masonry work is approved by The Brick Industry of America!
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Stonescaping
Idea Book |
Stonework Designs Add Graceful Contours to Your Landscape. There's nothing quite as functional -- or as beautiful -- as nature's own building blocks. Often shaped and weathered by natural forces, each stone has its own unique look and feel. From cover to cover, this delightful book offers hundreds of practical design ideas illustrated with colorful photographs and drawings, all divided into six sections: Paths and Steps, Terraces Patios and Garden spaces, Walls, Pools Ponds and Fountains, Finishing Touches
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