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Tommy Walsh’s DIY Guide 
Are you being driven mad by a dripping tap but don’t have the confidence to have a go at the plumbing yourself? Then you might want to consult Tommy Walsh’s DIY Guide on CD-ROM. Using his broad experience (as seen on BBC TV’s Ground Force programme) Tommy Walsh covers practical jobs that can be done inside and outside the home from paving to painting. Using video clips, he shows you clearly how you can save money for example by putting up your own curtain rails.
Not only does Tommy Walsh’s DIY Guide offer diagrams and explain what tools are required, there is also a glossary of difficult terms and you can print out instructions to help you get a DIY job done. And it’s very clearly laid out–just select where the task is to being carried out and then you choose the task (for example, building a barbecue in the garden). You get a concise summary of the steps you need to follow along with useful diagrams which illustrate the maintenance or construction work. Safety tips are also offered.
Tommy Walsh’s DIY Guide will help you tackle and fix a number of problems in your home or garden and should also make the world of DIY more accessible to people who always feel they have to pay someone to sort out their paving stones or plumbing when something goes wrong. –Justin Hunt
List Price: ?9.99
Used Price: ?0.01
Customer Review: Solid reference material
I was a DIY newbie when I bought my first flat recently and thought a visual CD-ROM would be a good start. The interface is divided up into four sections - kitchen, lounge, bathroom & garden and includes tasks from how to hang a mirror to how to install an outside tap. It contains useful movies and animations with detailed descriptions that can also be printed. The tile, paint, wallpaper etc calculators are worth the price alone! It does have a few irritations though. The graphics are of a low resolution and can look grainy even with on a powerful PC; Scrolling between sections of a task are done by dragging a pencil down a rule (a Next button would have been better, if not so artistic!); and the inability to maximise the screen at resolutions more than 800 x 600 is also annoying. Even though it is sectioned to room type, it can sometimes also be a bit illogical! I was looking on how to strip wood chip wallpaper with ease and although there are 3 tasks to strip paint and 5 on hanging wallpaper in the Lounge section, I finally found stripping wallpaper on Page 5 of a task in the Kitchen! This has become a great reference CD-ROM, but can really only be used in conjunction with a solid DIY book like the Collins Complete DIY Manual.
Prac Diy Building Project (600564622)
Used Price: $73.84
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