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- alt.home.repair - Usenet
- A-Ball Plumbing's Restoration Tips
- Adventures in Restoration -
Designer offers general advice about restoration projects, including whether to do it
yourself or hire a professional.
- Ask the Builder
- Ask
the Family Handyman
- Ask the Master Plumber
- AutoSite - Answers to common car maintenance
questions with access to an electronic car repair encylcopedia.
- AutoShop Online - inventory of
do-it-yourself auto maintenance advice from the Car Care Council,
- BathWeb.com
- Brewing Techniques Online -
technical magazine for the professional and home brewer. Includes a reference library and
supplier directory.
- BuilderWeb.com
- Carpentry Techniques - Why you
should shut one eye when you're sawing and other useful carpentry advice. Comes with
animated guides.
- ClosetWeb.com
- Consumer Information Center - includes finance,
improvement, safety, insurance, and home buying.
- DeckWeb.com
- Designer Stencils - Choose from a range
of stencils to decorate walls and furniture, featuring 18th century, kitchen and garden
designs.
- Do It Yourself Appliance Repair
- Do It Yourself Congressional Investigation Kit
- offers a complete consumer guide to who's ponying up the cash, who's on the receiving
end of the slush fund gravy train, and how it affects tax payers. The relevant Political
Action Committees and their puppet politicians are organized by subject: health care,
gambling, drunk driving, drug safety, phone rates, and more.
- Do It Yourself.com - More than 36 topics,
covering everything from appliances, energy saving, and concrete, to woodworking.
- Do-It-Yourself Dolby Digital
(AC-3) Laser Disc Player Modification Page - modifications to add Dolby Digital to
your older LD player.
- Do It Yourself HQ - A Comprehensive
Guide For The Do-It-Yourself Practitioner.
- Do It Yourself Pest Control Solution
- Do-It-Yourself Speaker Project - A
detailed speaker design project as well as links to many other audio-related web sites.
- Electrical
Wiring FAQ
- Electrician.com -
Electrical resources for electricians, engineers and home owners. Get free expert advice
about your electrical questions.
- Electronic Blue Book of Building and Construction -
continually updated construction industry information
- Elektric Anvil, The -
purpose is the sharing of knowledge, education and to expose the art of blacksmithing to
the public
- Extrahelp - The How-To Channel - Channel
lisiting for a TV network about "how to build it, fix it, grow it and make it look
beautiful, inside and outside your home"
- Fixit Home Page - suggestions and ideas for home
improvements. Look them up by room, type of job, or quick tip.
- Furnace Man - information
about furnaces, including maintenance, a troubleshooter's guide and links to heat related
sites
- Furniture Repair and Finishing Wizard -
Techniques and tips on restoring and refinishing antique furniture, with information on
maintenance and care as well.
- GardenGuides - a growing resource for
gardeners.
- Hardware World - collection of hardware and
home improvement links on the Net. Includes product information, specialty retailers, and
lumber yards.
- Home and Workshop Online -
Why surf the Web for home improvement advice when you can have it emailed straight to you?
Each monthly edition has woodworking plans and tool information.
- Home Automation Index - how
to fully automate your home, includes lighting, security and heating
- Homebrew Experience, The - includes a
beginners' guide, bulletin board, online equipment ordering, glossary, recipes and
instructional video clips.
- Home Central - extensive index of how-to's on home
repair
- Home Doctor - Remodeling and repair tips for
fixing homes and major appliances.
- Hometime - find how-to information, including
step-by-step guides, photos and supply lists, on dozens of home improvement projects from
the producers of the weekly TV show.
- Home Improvement Encyclopedia - from
Better Homes and Gardens Online.
- Home Improvement Highway - Wealth of
resources to help improve and remodel your home, including links to magazines and online
shops.
- Home Improvement Net - A 'How To'
informational resource for home improvement projects.
- Home Improvement Net Tips - Where you
will discover ideas and products that help you maintain and upgrade the value of your home
- Home Improver Magazine
- Home Maintenance and
Repair - Michigan State University Extension Services database of hundreds of tips on
caring for your home and the stuff you put in it. You can find tips on everything from
stain removal to controlling carpenter bees to fixing a plugged drain.
- Homeowners Painting Guide, The - information
about home painting, including problem solving and maintenance.
- Homeline Talk Radio - Email your
question - the hosts of this show have more than 50 years experience in construction - or
take advantage of a great set of annotated links.
- Home Owner/Builder Page
- links and resources for individuals who would like to serve as their own general
contractor to build their own home, addition, or other home improvement project.
- Home Repair Encyclopedia -
Books That Work
- HouseNet, Inc. - an online neighborhood with home
improvement information for homeowners, do-it-yourselfers and contractors with interactive
project calculators, message boards and news about products.
- How
Things Work (1) - Get beyond fixing things and find out the physics of how they work.
Search the archives or ask the professor.
- How Things Work (2)
- InteriorNet - information on interior
designers, custom manufacturers, suppliers, industry-related events, opinions and essays.
- InteriorNet - information on interior
designers, custom manufacturers, suppliers, industry-related events, opinions and essays.
- KitchenWeb.com
- LandscapeWeb.com
- Learn2.com - help of hundreds of tutorials -
everything from fixing a leaky faucet to defrosting the freezer to curing a hangover.
- LivingHome - advice and online tools for
remodeling, home repair, and decorating projects.
- Low Voltage Home Pre-Wire Guide
- article is intended to present ideas, discuss experiences, and generally assist those
building or remodeling a house, who plan on installing low voltage wiring for audio,
video, home automation, phone, and data communications.
- Lowe's Home Imprevement Warehouse
- Step-by-step guidelines to popular projects for home improvements, with a section on
choosing the right houseplan.
- LumberWeb.com
- Paint it Yourself - Learn Faux
Finishing - help with the design and email instructions for you to paint your own faux
finish. Site has FAQs, photos, and examples.
- Pete's Dry Dock - Home maintenance and
remodeling advice from the Northwest's favorite handyman, Pete Prlain. How-to help for
do-it-yourselfers.
- Reader's Digest - The Family Handyman
- Sears Craftsman - Learn about
home projects and tips, talk to others and browse an illustrated catalog with over 2,000
hand and power tools.
- Spagnol's Resource Library - a collection of
handouts to help with beer and wine homebrewing
- This Old House -
Magazine provides tips and advice for your latest home improvement project. With an
encyclopedia for particular problems.
- Toilet Repairs Page - The
Virtual Plumber - devoted to all those who don't mind rolling up their sleeves and
digging in (so to speak) to keep these marvelous pieces of equipment working perfectly.
- Toiletology 101 - complete course in toilet
repairs and maintenance. learn how to save water and money by keeping plumbing fixtures in
good repair.
- Bob Vila's American Home - Get help
when making important decisions about improving and redesigning your home.
- Water Treatment FAQ - Find out what
the best water for coffee is, how to improve your drinking water and what to do about
smelly water or water that stains
- Welding Bookshelf, The
- Window Shades - "No Brainer Blinds
and Shades has information and advice to help you with choosing the right window
treatments, decorating your home, keeping your children and pets safe, and much
more."
- WoodNet: Woodworking - over 70 tips
at this extensive woodworkers site. Also includes a glossary, tools, and projects.
- WoodWeb - Database of woodworking
resources, including a lumber buying guide, events calendar and a weekly feature on wood
types.
- Woodworking Catalog - a collection of
information useful to woodworkers.
- Woodworking on the World
Wide Web - Detailed information on all areas of woodworking and an easily navigable
index.
- Woodworking Page: Sal Marino
- advice on staining, removing veneers, or a dozen other practical woodworking and
painting topics
- Your New House - resources include plans,
mortgage calculators, product info, and more than 300 tips.