Basic Masonry (Sunset New Basic) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good book for the homeowner who wants to know how to build a garden wall, pave an area, or lay cast concrete. Covers tool selection and uses, building techniques with brick, stone, blocks, adobe, and concrete. Excellent step-by-step instructions and illustrations show you how. Learn tricks of the trade, even how to make you own paving blocks. Also covers maintaining and reparing masonry.

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Wooden Fences Review

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(More customer reviews)This book has lots of pictures of fences and the houses behind them. This gives you ideas on how to design a fence to go with your home. Good construction information as well. All-around excellent book.

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Experienced carpenter George Nash traces the evolution of the American wooden fence from Colonial times to the present. Along the way, he discusses the various types of fences and explains how to design a fence to meet every conceivable need--including how to be a good neighbor. The book also gives practical information on how to build a fence, from laying it out to digging postholes, anchoring the posts, and installing gates. An inspiring and useful book for homeowners and landscapers alike.

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Measuring, Marking, and Layout: A Builder's Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're planning on building any of the hard parts of a house like footings, foundation, floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, stairs, masonry or shingles, you will want this book so you can figure out how to make them plumb, square, level, and evenly distributed. (I think that covers most of the carpentry sections)
He shows a few options for arriving at each layout, typically mathematically, from charts, and from pictures, so if you have trouble with one of them you can try another.
Octagons aren't very popular in my neighborhood, but if those (or other polygons) appear in yours, you'll find he has good information on them too.
I'd recommend a read through the book for suggestions when you first get it, (I did that in a long evening) and if you're a really good student you can follow along with all the examples. (I wasn't). But keep it by your side and read the chapter you need as you build. It will pay for itself in saved time and straigher work on the first job.

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-- Provides simple techniques for accurate measuring using a number of basic tools

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