Doors, Windows & Insulation Books
Books, DVD's & Videos about Hanging Doors, Installing Windows and Insulating Homes

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Doors, Windows & Insulation

Black & Decker Complete Guide to Windows & Entryways
Repair, Renew and Replace Doors & Windows
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Windows & Entryways is a fully-updated revision of Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Windows & Doors. At 288 pages, it features more than 600 beautiful color photographs that are rich with current information. It contains virtually everything readers need to plan and complete any kind of window and door installation. The new version also features an expanded section on door and window hardware, as the types, styles and finishes change frequently.

Complete Doors & Windows (Stanley Complete)
Open The Possibility To New Doors & Windows in your Home
Doors and windows are essential to your home's style, security and energy efficiency. This “Stanley Complete” guide covers everything you need to know to successfully install or replace them yourself with great results. Includes complete information on how to choose the best products for your home, take correct measurements. Step-by-step installation instructions cover every stage, with special advice for challenging situations. Also includes tips on repairing and maintaining windows and doors.

Complete Guide to Doors & Windows
All-in-one Reference to Repairing or Replacing Doors & Windows
You'll find step-by-step directions and hundreds of photographs that take you through the process of framing new windows and doors as well replacing the ones you already have. There's even a section showing how to trim and finish windows and doors with hardware, locksets, wood trim, draperies, and other window treatments. Plus, we share ideas on ways you can make your doors and windows more secure and how to install digitally keyed locksets.

DIY Guide to Doors, Windows & Joinery
Do-It-Yourself Reference To Replacing Doors & Windows
This book enables anyone to take on important maintenance, repair, and replacement jobs with confidence, using both traditional hand tools and modern power tools. Each job covered is accompanied by a preparation planner, safety tips, a tools checklist, and step-by-step color drawings and photographs. From fitting shelves and sanding floors to erecting sheds and building porches, this comprehensive reference is essential for improving and maintaining one's home.

Energy Efficient Building - The Best of Fine Homebuilding
Building Energy Efficient Homes with Expert Advice from Fine Homebuilding
Energy-efficient homes aren't just more economical, they're also more comfortable. This collection of 29 articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine will teach you how to make your home more energy efficient with information on materials and techniques that can make a difference in how much energy is required to make your home comfortable.

Installing and Hanging Doors - For Pros By Pros
Precise techniques make a perfect fit
Getting a door to hang perfectly doesn't have to be such a time-consuming struggle, however. Installing and Hanging Doors offers proven production methods and custom techniques collected from other finish carpenters and from the author's own trial and error. Even if you've never hung a door before, Installing and Hanging Doors can make door hanging easy and enjoyable.

Insulate and Weatherize: Build Like A Pro
Expert advice from start to finish
In this complete do-it-yourself guide to home insulation and weatherization, engineer Bruce Harley offers solutions that will make your home more comfortable in all seasons. Using his troubleshooting advice, you’ll be able to identify the hidden energy wasters and moisture problems that can do serious damage in your home. Clear explanations, hundreds of photos, and detailed illustrations will guide you step by step through the process of upgrading both structures and systems. Implementing even a few of these sensible solutions can result in real savings in your energy bills.

Installing Doors and Windows - DVD
Techniques for trouble-free installation - Everyone wants trouble-free doors and windows -- doors that swing smoothly without rubbing or slouching, windows that open easily and keep cold air out. Over the last 26 years Tom Law has installed thousands of doors and windows, developing the time-honored techniques that mark him as a master carpenter. Whether you just want to add some light to a room or need to hang doors and windows on a job site, you'll find Law's methods and trade secrets invaluable.
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Repairing Old and Historic Windows
Learn How to Repair and Refurbish Old Windows
Written for homeowners, architects, builders, engineers, and preservationists, Repairing Old and Historic Windows is the complete and authoritative guide to window maintenance and repair. Chapters focus on window problems, including deterioration, weather damage, paint problems, and condensation; window maintenance, including cleaning, weatherstripping, and installing shutters; and window replacement, including design, fabrication, and installation. Some 140 photographs and illustrations

Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance
Authoritative Guide for Builders and Homeowners
This guide provides all the information necessary to evaluate windows and make intelligent choices. It includes revised energy-performance and cost information for more locations; advances in emerging technologies; revised and expanded sections on comfort, durability, and life-cycle performance; new information on window installation methods, building codes, and impact-resistant windows; and much more. Illustrated.

Windows and Doors: Build Like A Pro
With the hands-on advice of veteran carpenter Scott McBride, you’ll be able to replace or repair doors and windows like a pro. Detailed step-by-step instructions, photos, and drawings take you through each step of your door and window projects, including special installations. You'll learn how to choose the right doors, windows, and skylights for the look you want and for energy efficiency. You'll also learn how to frame the rough opening, set doors and windows level, and make exterior installations weathertight. Tips, shortcuts and advice

Windows and Doors: For Pros By Pros
In this book we've collected 21 articles from past issues of Fine Homebuilding magazine, all of which deal with windows and doors-choosing them, building them, installing them, fixing them. Written by builders, these articles represent hard-won knowledge and years of experience. Because they're often called on to remodel homes, builders see first-hand what has and hasn't worked. You'd be hard pressed to find better advice than what's collected here. You'll learn techniques that yield weather-tight installation, how to choose enegry-efficient units, how to install specialty doors, how to make stock windows a custom look, and more.

Window Treatments & Slipcovers For Dummies
Jazz Up Your Window Treatments and Slipcovers with this Step-By-Step Guide
Create a stunning room with dozens of step-by-step projects. Want to ditch your drab drapes and so-so slipcovers and create a style that's uniquely your own? Top designer Mark Montano reveals how easy it is to jazz up your windows and furniture — without breaking the bank! You get expert tips on everything from measuring and cutting material to accessorizing, as well as savvy shortcuts and quick fixes.

Window Treatments Idea Book
Update The Look of Your Home's Windows with Hundreds of Fresh Window Treatments.
Doing what no other window treatment book has done before, Window Treatments Idea Book offers hundreds of the latest ideas from hands-on experts for decorating windows of every type, including bays, bows, and unusual shapes. It also provides quick-and-easy style ideas and professional advice for modifying and embellishing off-the-shelf curtains and drapes. Whether you want to update your homes style or find fresh ideas for a new home, this book will give you the inspiration you need to get the look you're after.

Working Windows: A Guide to the Repair and Restoration of Wood Windows
The Definitive Book on the Operation, Care and Restoration of Wood Windows
This definitive book covers the operation, care, repair, and restoration of all kinds of wood windows, along with chapters on weather-stripping, repainting, and refinishing. Working Windows leaves the subject of window design and installation to other authors, and instead concentrates on something more basic to homeowners: getting the windows you already have to work properly for what they were designed and installed to do.

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