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| Black Decker Finishing Basements Attics Ideas Projects For Expanding Your Living Space About This Book: This book shows how to Homeowners ACCOMPLISH MOST Perhaps The Greatest and rewarding of all do-it-yourself projects: The Unfinished converting space in a basement or attic Into comfortable, safe, and Truly customized living areas ". Many Americans Grew up in homes That Had "finished" basements (dark wood paneling and do a sloping pool table sound familiar?), And Their Parents Likely Used One Of The books available Still On The how-to shelf. Homeowners are today's goal Claiming Their unfinished square footage for more Specific uses: high-tech home offices, Fully equipped home theaters, and secondary living spaces for aging relative. For These new "home spaces" Finishing Basements & Attics Is The up-to-date guide THEY Need. An Ideas section at The Front Of The book provides inspiration for a Variety of creative, functional options, Followed By An overview of basement and attic Dos and Don'ts. The Rest Of The Devoted To book IS Useful projects. Thesis cover the essentials, from framing around pipes and ductwork to building attic knee walls in a year, "as well as popular specialty jobs, like wiring a home theater and Installing a skylight. The projects are not only Designed to appeal to today's consumer to teach readers to The Fundamental techniques of Each task, so optometrist CAN ADAPT project for The Given Their Specific situations. Highlights: Contains over 300 color photos and illustrations. Features Dozens of step-by-Step Projects, Including a basement bathroom plumbing, forced-air Adding ucts, and Installing a window in a gable wall. Aimed at consumer trends Toward cocooning and working from home offices. Shows all Aspects of the remodeling process, Including wiring, plumbing, Insulating, finishing walls and ceilings, and Installing windows and doors. An Idea section includes color photographs of Successful With basement and attic conversions. CommentsTalia Eldert says... This is a great place to start with if you're a do-it-yourselfer planning to finish your basement.The only drawback I found is that it leaves you wanting more.I ended up buying more books on plumbing, flooring, and building in general.I managed to find several good used books.I'll probably end up buying a book on electrical work too (I'm still working on my basement).I also did a lot of research on the internet.Also, there's a lot of variation on local building codes, so you need to talk to your governing authority to get specifics.In the end, you might decide to do some parts of the job yourself and leave other parts for professionals.In any case, reading through this book will give you a lot of ideas to get started. Posted on June 14, 2011 Louisa Lemon says... This book covers, in great depth, basic framing and finishing techniques.In other words, it's full of information that's available in myriad other remodeling texts. That information is well presented, but it's nothing exclusive to this book.What I expected, and where it falls woefully short, is a good discussion of issues particular to basements.Water gets perhaps two pages, humidity/moisture nothing at all, slanting floors and floor drains nothing.He does mention egress windows and basement mechanicals.Overall, however, far too much space given to general building techniques (probably over 80% of the book), when in fact what I think is needed is a lot more depth and detail regarding issues related to basements. Posted on June 15, 2011 Mariella Fortini says... this may help you develop ideas of your own to create a special space in your home Posted on June 16, 2011 Griselda Ackerly says... You will save a lot of money on redoing Your basement with this book. Posted on June 17, 2011 Humberto Barabas says... When we first decided to have our basement finished off,we called twocontractors who arrived with an array of ideas that were not very creativeat all. Then we found this new book and took over the planning processourselves. This book covers all the basics with good information as well asgreat color photos of handsome basements. Thanks to this book, my wife andI have nearly finished planning how we want our unfinished basement to lookand function.We know where we want the walls and even how we will arrangethe furniture. The book helped us come up with something that really fitsour life-style and taste. Posted on June 19, 2011 Eilene Bracco says... I didn't do walls or plumbing but did install a drop ceiling, lights, boxed some beams, supports and ducts, and wired electrical outlets.This book had the basic information required and I used the Black and Decker electrical wiring guide for details on the wiring. Posted on June 20, 2011 Seymour Clair says... This is very useful if you are finishing your basement yourself.It walked you through all of the basics from planning and framing to finishing off molding.There is great content in this book and this was one of the heavily referenced books my husband and I used to finish our basement.I would caution you that the photos seem a bit dated, so get another book if you are shopping for ideas. Posted on June 20, 2011 Soledad Nicoll says... Tons of full color photographs and drawings, and well-written text make this book a must-read for the amateur home-improver.This book isn't an exhaustive guide to remodeling, but it covers most of everything you'd need to know.For some specifics, like plumbing and electrical, it may be necessary to get a more detailed book on those subjects, if you're going to do that work yourself.Still, a great book, I'm already relying on it to do my own basement remodel. Posted on June 21, 2011 Buster Mallory says... My wife brought this book and 5 others home from the library for us to review as we are just starting to finish our basement.This book is the best of the six by far.It's drawback is that it is not comprehensive - if you don't have some basic knowledge/experience and you want to do the work yourself, then you will want more detail.For the few pages that are there, however, the book does an excellent job showing the work at hand and gives some good ideas.I'll likely buy the book to have it on hand as we progress.Enjoy your project! Posted on June 22, 2011 Elma Hollinrake says... I am a complete home improvement dummy who is trying to build out her basement. This book was great at teaching me the basics & forcing me to think in a logical step by step manner - heating first, earthquake proofing next, etc. It also helped me understand drywalling techniques & effective insulation. Further, it helped me focus on building codes & regulations (I hadn't thought of that & as I said, i'm a home improvement dummy). Plus the pictures gave me great ideas. On the whole, a worthwhile investment. This book does assume that you'll want to *do* your own basement so there are tons of pictures showing you how to effectively insulate etc... 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