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Gives step-by-step instructions on the entire process of framing a floor of a basic 1,600 sq. ft. house. Topics include sills, joists, posts and girders, sheathing floors.

Tom Law, carpenter, transforms a bare farmhouse addition into a modern country kitchen, complete with floor-to-ceiling pantries and a large island counter.

Shows how to build two common staircases: a straight-run stair with plywood treads and risers and an L-shaped stair with house oak treads and risers.

Foundation work is not glamorous. But it is the work upon which all other concrete rests, so a good foundation is critical to every home. No source of knowledge on foundations and concrete work is better respected or more widely followed than that provided by the experts at Fine Homebuilding magazine. Completely updated, Foundations & Concrete Work distills decades of hands-on, builder-tested methods and techniques as the finest builders in the...

Instruction in learning how to use tuning chisels, planes, and saws. Explains how to sharpen a chisel, rehabilitate flea market tools, flatten the bottom of a plane, set and sharpen a handsaw, stand and hold a plane, pare accurately with a chisel, and saw straight and smoothly.

Takes viewers through building and finishing a bookcase wall unit using biscuits. Also explains how to plan wall units, design drawers, doors, and shelves, choose the right kind of plywood, cut sheetgoods on the tablesaw, make a simple biscuit joinery fence, use knockdown hardware, edge plywood, and glue and assemble a bookcase.