Black & Decker Complete Guide to Roofing Siding & Trim: Updated 2nd Edition, Protect & Beautify the Exterior of Your Home (Paperback)

by Chris Marshall (Author)
Key Phrases: batten siding, rubber gasket nails, exterior trim details, Staining Siding, Installing Exterior Trim Details, Finishing Walls (more...)

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The single worst enemy to any home is the weather. Even tiny breaches in a home’s exterior can lead to thousands of dollars in damage if water invades walls and ceilings. To protect families and guard investments, this book provides all the information homeowners need in order to maintain, repair, and install all types of roofing, siding, and trim. Roofing and siding installations professionals will also find this to be an indispensable source of state-of-the art information.

 

The Complete Guide To Roofing, Siding & Trim covers all traditional materials, from traditional wood lap siding, brick, concrete block, stucco, stone veneer and wooden shakes, to vinyl, raised metal roofing, and cementitious sidings. Important new tends in materials, like EPDM, architectural, fully bonded selvedge edge and pyramid shingles, are also discussed. In addition to complete installation information, the book includes comprehensive methods for repairing problems with existing surfaces, as well as routine finishing and refinishing information.

About the Author

Chris Marshall (Sunbury, OH) is the author of dozens of books and hundreds of magazine articles on woodworking and home improvement. He is a contributing editor at The Woodworker’s Journal.

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Product Details Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Creative Publishing international; 2nd edition (November 10, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 1589234189 ISBN-13: 978-1589234185 Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #137,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #50 in  Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Home Repair #57 in  Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Carpentry #57 in  Books > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Civil > Construction > Carpentry

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batten siding, rubber gasket nails, exterior trim details, rafter lookouts, log cabin siding, soffit system, using aviation snips, apply roofing cement, siding repairs, soffit panels, gutter hangers, starter shingles, cap shingles, horizontal eaves, rake edges, valley flashing, install drip edge, starter row, siding nails, veneer siding, laminated shingles, set shingles, starter strip, aluminum soffits, flat pry bar

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Staining Siding, Installing Exterior Trim Details, Finishing Walls, Cedar Shakes, Finish Option, Install Roll Roofing, Finish Walls, Hammer Circular, Installing Roofing, Installing Siding

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing international; 2nd edition (November 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589234189
• ISBN-13: 978-1589234185
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #137,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #50 in	Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Home Repair
  #57 in	Books > Home & Garden > How-to & Home Improvements > Carpentry
  #57 in	Books > Professional & Technical > Engineering > Civil > Construction > Carpentry

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Half complete guide, January 18, 2007

By	Kjell T. Nilsson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding: Install, Finish, Repair, Maintain (Paperback)

This is a good book to use in planning what type of roof or siding that would
suit your project. Then buy a book how to work that particular roof or
siding.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, December 5, 2007

By	Turret-index (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Black & Decker Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding: Install, Finish, Repair, Maintain (Paperback)

Helpful. Helps clue you in if you have never done roofing or siding work before. Won't magically turn you into a tradesperson (nothing can without on-the-job experience), but will clue you in on how stuff is done. I imagine that even people in the trade might benefit from it, if only to see variations on the way that their own company does things.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, April 26, 2009

By	Brian & Nikkie Vance (Coeburn, Va) - See all my reviews

Bought this book to help my wife and I to teach us how to remove old roof and install new roof. So far from what I have read, this is a great book! Lots of pictures and detailed instructions.

However,even though this book covers metal roofing it lacks in my opinion the details needed by a novice as myself to do the job myself. So the wife and I decided to go with asphalt shingles.