The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores and Garden Centers: Except the Plants

by Steve Ettlinger

Book Overview

How many types of screwdrivers are there? What's the most useful pair of pliers to own? Here's a comprehensive, portable reference containing virtually every tool and product sold in hardware and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762414936
• ISBN13: 9780762414932
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Courage Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Yes, there is a way to fix almost anything if you have the right tool!

This is a great reference book. Before I had it a week, I had solved some mysteries about pieces and parts of stuff...and where to buy them, and what they looked like! Of course, sometimes it's fun to just graze through the book and find all sorts of items you didn't know existed. If you're into home repair, or home improvement, this gem is a great addition to your how-to collection.

Excellent place to start when you don't know what to ask for

If what we've lost in the move from small neighborhood hardware stores to "big box" home centers is help and advice, this book is a wonderful substitute. Describes in just enough detail all the gadgets, tools, and other "stuff" that one needs in completing home fix-up projects. No, it won't tell you how to build a deck. This book will, though, be thoroughly helpful in explaining everything that you'll use to do it.

A real help to fixing things that go wrong in one's house

This book is beautifully written and illustrated, but the neat format makes it an easy, really usable reference and that makes it outstanding. This book came out quite a few years ago, but now this updated paperback version is so much better! There are so many puzzling things in home and hardware stores, and knowing what you need and what to do with it -- and incidentally, what NOT to buy -- is a terrific help. It was good in its original version, and this is better. Good for the woman who needs to maintain her home by herself and is unfamiliar with many tools and methods. Excellent!

Eagerly awaited publication of this updated version .

The first "Complete etc." was the best advice, guide, help of any of this genre for the do-it-yourselfer, so this updated version is long overdue and very welcome. The illustrations are fascinating; descriptions clear, but best of all is the genuine assistance the book offers for using the particular tool -- and why to buy it. Just so much better then comparable books of the same type!