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 Building Screened Rooms: Creating Backyard Retreats, Screening in Existing Structures, A Complete How-to Guide List Price: Sale Price: $11.18 You save: $3.77 (25%)  Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionExpand your living space by enclosing an existing porch, patio, deck or gazebo with this new edition from Sunset’s outdoor building experts. It has everything you need to transform open outdoor areas into functional, inviting rooms for year-round use. Includes detailed step-by-step photography and building instructions for commonly used enclosure materials such as screened frames, the ScreenTight system, screened panels, and screen enclosure kits.  |
 Barbecues & Outdoor Kitchens: Fresh Design for Patio Living, Complete Guide to Construction, Simple Grills and Gourmet Kitchens List Price: Sale Price: $11.53 You save: $5.42 (32%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description"Let’s cook outside tonight, honey," just got a whole lot more inviting with this new edition of a Sunset best seller. Everything you need to plan and build the barbecue or outdoor kitchen you’ve always wanted is here. Includes step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations for 16 projects, ranging from simple to sublime. One show-off has a side burner, sink, refrigerator—even a pizza oven. Whatever your outdoor culinary desires, Sunset takes you through the entire process. Features: * 16 innovative projects for building barbecues and outdoor kitchens * Unique additions include a Brazilian barbecue, a chimney smoker, and an adobe oven * Offers step-by-step instructions, informative ‘how-to’ photography, detailed illustrations & materials lists * Covers working with various materials such as stone, brick, stucco, tile, and much more * Complete installation directions, including how to run utility lines Features
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 How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts (2nd Edition) List Price: Sale Price: $10.17 You save: $4.78 (32%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product DescriptionThis is a make-your-own guide for hard-to-find small parts! Using this excellent sourcebook as a guide, you can easily make high quality, defect-free castings for almost any purpose ...at amazingly low cost! Just some of the countless uses you'll find for this potentially profitable skill ...making obsolete or vintage car parts, hood ornaments, garden and fireplace tools, kitchen utensils, automotive parts, replacing broken antique parts, reproducing sculpture, plaques, and other art ...all kinds of decorative and useful objects for your own use or to sell!Writing in nontechnical language, author William Cannon provides all the instruction you need to cast any part ...putting an end to those long and often unfruitful scavenger hunts through shops, flea markets, and swap meets. This time- and money-saving second edition of the 'bible' on casting small metal and rubber parts guides you through all the basics of foundry work. You'll learn how to reproduce or create new items of brass, bronze, or other metals ...or almost anything made of rubber.Cannon shows you how to organize your own home workshop - the equipment you'll need, how much it costs, and how to set it all up! You can even open your own full - or part-time business. You'll discover which metal is better for certain jobs and why, how to choose molding sands, how to design and produce molds, and how to repair castings. Plus information is included on coremaking, casting problems and their causes, finishing castings and correcting defects ...even chapters on grinding, polishing, and buffing. Plus the completely updated and revised information on casting rubber parts will bring up up-to-date on all the recent developments in polyurethane rubber. Features
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 A-frame List Price: Sale Price: $16.47 You save: $8.48 (34%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours See Reviews For This Product Description"A" was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside retreats, an entire generation of high-end homebuilders and weekend handymen found the A-frame an easy and affordable home to construct; its steeply sloping triangular roof distinctive and easy to maintain )almost no exterior walls to paint!). Fueled by A-frame plans and kits, the style became something of a national craze, with tens of thousands of houses built. Indeed, the A-frame was an icon for recreation, and acceptable form of modernism (although its origins go back thousands of years), and a convenient tool for marketing a wide range of products, including gas-powered toilets, motorcycles, and canned vegetables; Fisher-Price even made one for children. So popular on the domestic front, the A-frame was eventually adapted to other building types, from roadside restaurants to churches. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the "triangle" house from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing heyday in the 1960s. Part architectural history and part cultural exploration, A-Frame documents every aspect of A-frame living using cartoons, ads, high-style and do-it-yourself examples, family snapshots, and even an appendix with a complete set of blueprints in case you want to build your own! Features
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