Customer Reviews

Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding: Install, Finish, Repair, Maintain (Black & Decker Complete Guide)

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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.

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.

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.

This book goes over things in a big picture can of way. It is very macro not micro. If you want to know how to install something specific it would make sense to get a book only about that. If you have to fix some things wrong with your roof or siding this might be a good book. It has info for all different kinds of materials and projects. If you need an overview of roofs and siding this is a great book. You can't go wrong with the Black & Decker series. They do a great job giving you info for a wide variety of situations.

The book does not cover very much in detail about roof systems. If you have never done a roof, or have no idea what goes into a roof, then this book is a good general reference book on roofing. I must say all the Black and Decker books (same company that own Dewalt) are about the same. They give you vague general premises on the ins and outs of the proposed task they cover. If you really want a good skilled trades book buy something from Taunton press. There books are written by pros who have been in there vocation for decades. If your a skilled tradesman reading up on how to replace your roof, and looking for some advice on it then this is not the book for you!

How-to sequence of photos on every page. Tells me what should be there and how to tell if it was done right. Would be a better product if it came with a DVD similar to the plumbing guide.

i love the black and decker series of DIY books, they use pictures and good explainations on how to do work around your house, and it is the same with this roofing book, it shows you how to remove old roofing, or put new over old..everything you need to know..

This book is okay. Has some good information for the do it yourself person.
Illustrations were fair.

The description of the book on Amazon said the book covered single-membrane roofs. That is the reason I bought this, plus all of the favorable reviews that all the other Black & Decker Complete Guide books receive. I wanted to know how to replace single-membrane rubber roofs on flat/low-pitch roofs. Well, this book didn't do anything for that.