Smart Guide®: Basements provides readers with the information they need to convert their dark, dreary basements into bright, airy living spaces. Readers learn how to eliminate moisture problems, change rough concrete walls and floors into finished surfaces, hide pipes and wiring, and bring light and ventilation to these rooms.
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"The Smart Guide series of books by Creative Homeowner are step-by-step projects that are easy to understand, completely illustrated, and provide handy guides to the tools you'll need and HOW to use them, if you've never tried before."
-Bill Ervolino, Sunday Record
Hackensack, NJ
December 15, 2002
-Bill Ervolino, Sunday Record
Hackensack, NJ
December 15, 2002
"If you are thinking about turning your basement into living space, might I recommend a book from Creative Homeowner's Smart Guide Series: "Basements: Step-by-Step Projects"...The book is full of procedures and ideas to help you transform that basement into a family room, extra bedrooms, or just a place for the kids to hangout."
--Alan J. Heavans, Chicago Tribune
--Alan J. Heavans, Chicago Tribune
"...excellent value...."
--Library Journal
--Library Journal
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Basements can be used for more than just storage, and Smart Guide: Basements can help homeowners claim that found space. Readers will learn how to maximize usable but unfinished areas in the basement as new living space for their families. Through clear, step-by-step text and color illustrations, the book shows readers how to frame and insulate walls, replace windows, construct a suspended ceiling, and more.
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Bought this book so I could be over the free shipping threshold on an order. I was hoping to get some ideas to finish my basement. The book is written at a very basic level, almost assuming you aren't really going to do much of the work yourself. Although it has a few decent ideas, anything beyond the most basic of work it suggests you contact a professional (great advice, but I do as much as possible myself).
If you're planning and finishing your basement yourself, I would highly recommend Remodeling A Basement Revised Edition (Taunton's Build Like a Pro). I have the first revision and it gives detailed instructions so you should be able to complete the vast majority of the work yourself. He discusses current code requirements and also mentions when projects tend to vary greatly from area to area. Much better reference.
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Insulate walls, update plumbing, install new wiring and more,
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Part of the outstanding "Smart Guide" series from Creative Homeowner, Basements: Step-By-Step Projects is a no-nonsense, "user friendly" collection of step-by-step projects to insulate walls, update plumbing, install new wiring, eliminate moisture problems and much more in the basement of one's home. Color photographs, diagrams, and detailed instructions distinguish this excellent do-it-yourself resource which is confidently recommended for personal "do-it-yourself" and Interior Design technical reference shelf collections.
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concrete screws, cross runners, nail dimples, waterproofing paint, sill panel, aviation snips, masonry nails, main runner, wall molding, wood subfloor, base track, footing drains, hydraulic cement, rim joist, layout marks, corner bead, rigid insulation, sheathed cable, depth stop, rough opening, moisture problems, bulkhead door, service panel, secondary wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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