Before conducting any inspections, get a tetanus shot. After all, you’ll be poking around basements and attics that may have protruding nails and splinters that could break your skin and cause EXTERIOR Mortar chimney cap Flashing Ridge Valley flashing Plumbing vent Gable end Louver Corner board Splashboard infections. Dress the part. Wear sneakers or crepe-soled […]
Рубрика: RENOVATION 3
TRAINING YOUR EYeI
The house shown on the facing page says much to a trained eye. Though nicely crafted, it’s showing its age. Despite the gleaming paint on the parts that can be easily reached, this house’s upper floors haven’t been painted in 20 years or 30 years, suggesting that the parts you can’t see probably weren’t maintained […]
Table of Contents
• • • viii CHAPTER 3: Tools Tool Safety Tools to Own Tools to Rent 34 CHAPTER 1: Inspecting a House 34 The Roof 7 House Exterior 9 Interiors 11 Mechanical Systems 15 Estimating Project Difficulty and Costs 17 CHAPTER 4: Building Materials CHAPTER 2: Planning […]
Introduction
HAVE BEEN WRITING AND UPDATING one edition or another of this book for nearly three decades. I started the first edition in 1978, when Jimmy Carter was president and most computers were the size of closets. Since publication of the second edition in 1990, building materials and tools have changed so dramatically that I decided […]