Rodale's Fix It Fast, Fix It Right

Before you tackle your next home-repair project, consult Fix It Fast, Fix It Right. Home-repair experts for Maryland Public Television's Infotips, Gene and Katie Hamilton share their years of hands-on experience with tips, hints, and shortcuts. Written in layman's terms and accompanied by black-and-white illustrations, this guide covers an assortment of indoor and outdoor projects. With the authors' bare-bones list of indispensable tools, you should be able to accomplish projects ranging from venting a dryer or replacing a broken window pane to slightly more complicated tasks such as installing a suspended ceiling or ventilating an attic. Included in this basic home-repair guide are a variety of charts and inserts to determine your ventilation needs, how much paint to purchase, or how to figure electrical load. Keep this on hand for the next time your paint starts peeling, your plumbing gets plugged, or you just get a hankering to hang some wallpaper.