Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.
A UNIQUE WORKBOOK This extraordinary collection of tools and inside-the-homebuilding-industry wisdom enables even novices to be masters of the process from stage one.
A machine digs a big hole. A cement mixer pours cement. Carpenters put up walls. Bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, and painters do their part. Through brilliantly simple words and pictures we...
Combining the expertise of builder John Carroll and the engaging drawings of illustrator Charles Lockhart, this book is a complete course in residential carpentry and construction from the voice (and hand) of experience"--
For a basic look at the different truss configurations , see the illustration on the facing page . The basic roof installation process that we'll use on this house will be very much the same for other houses , regardless of size .
Written as a song to commemorate the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth—which was originally performed with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma—and paired here with bold illustrations by painter Monica Mikai, Build a House tells the moving story of a ...
Janice wants to build her own house.
safety strap shingle clapboard On the roof a carpenter is busy nailing down shingles . Other carpenters nail clapboard siding to the sides of the house . Day after day the work continues . mason The mason is almost finished building the ...
Part animated children's storybook, part real instructional book on home construction, this book blends the two to teach children construction in a fun way!
So with the assistance of my dad who holds an experience of 15 years in construction business; wrote this book.I made it with an aim of clearing your concepts about what is building a house is all about. - VIRAJ PATIL
With the book "How to Build a Simple Wooden House," you'll have everything required to construct a wooden house anywhere in the world. The book contains step by step guidelines on how you can build such a house from scratch.