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The Complete Guide to Roofing Siding & Trim: Protect & Beautify the Exterior of Your Home
The best home insurance policy you can buy
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.
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.
272 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2004
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July 25, 2018
Picked this up to get a base knowledge of siding so I could find out all the components of the job and then dig deeper with YouTube videos. You’re definitely not going to go out and side your house with this book alone but it’s a good starting place.
August 4, 2018
Great guide for anyone interested in roof repair or exterior wall remodeling. The book has detailed pictures and examples of how to roof and install exterior walls. Many types of roofs materials are covered such as asphalt shingle, ceramic tile and rolled sheet metal. The author goes into detail on installation and cost of each type of material. The book also goes into detail on stucco, brick and wood panel wall exteriors. Lots of pictures and helpful reference book for most homeowners.
January 13, 2013
I'm clearly not a home improvement guide book fan. This book had some good photos of home improvement jbs that I've never considered and/or tried, but using it as a reference volume is about the best idea I have for it.
September 22, 2013
For what it is, it was okay. Tons of photos on every page, and some beautiful ones at that, so this book is well suited for a visual learner.
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