Carpentry and Construction

by Mark Richard Miller, Rex Miller

Fully updated home carpentry, construction, and remodeling instruction

This thoroughly revised, DIY guide takes you through every step of home construction. Discover how to select tools, pour foundations, build walls and floors, and install tiles--even handle electrical wiring, plumbing, and insulation! Easy-to-follow instructions, along with more than 1,500 photos and illustrations, clearly demonstrate each technique. Logically organized by building stages, this new edition offers complete coverage of home remodeling, building additions, and making household repairs.

Carpentry and Construction, Sixth Edition, shows how to
- Site preparation
- Footings and foundations
- Concrete slabs and floors
- Floor frames
- Walls and roof framing
- Windows and doors
- Exterior and interior walls
- Electrical Wiring
- Plumbing
- Insulation
- Interior finishing
- Kitchen and bathroom remodeling
- Tile setting
- Solar heating installation
- Termite prevention
- Installation of Skylights
- Fences, decks, and patios
- Private water and sewage systems
- And much more

2005 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1991

Reviews

[Lucia · Rating 3 out of 5]

House construction manual.

Ch. 3 - basic info on foundations, footings, drainage and waterproofing, pressure-treated wood, termite prevention.

[Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

While this book is comprehensive and full of good information, it appears publisher McGraw-Hill Education has once again "updated" a book as a money grab. So much of the information and pictures are outdated. A lot of information and tool that are "fairly modern", though would have been in prominent use in 2016 when the 6th edition was published are either not discussed or discussed as "new technology". I'm sure there are better updated books, but this book, as stated, is comprehensive of the basics and even contains some more advanced activities involved in constructing a home.

[Carolee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another reference book - for when I go on my house design kicks.