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| 1. |  | Roof Cutters Secrets: To Framing the Custom Home from Hanley Wood Customer Review:  It is a great book. I used it for building a covered porch and found it indispensable. |
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| 2. |  | Roofing Construction & Estimating from Craftsman Book Company Price: $25.08 Customer Review: In "Roofing Construction & Estimating", Dan Atcheson draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as a draftsman, as an apprentice in plumbing, electrical and carpenter, as a professional in all areas of construction from earthwork, to framing, to roofing. The result is an impressively... |
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| 3. |  | The Slate Roof Bible: Everything You Wanted to Know About Slate Roofs Including How to Keep Them Alive for Centuries from Energy Shelter Customer Review: It's funny how you can drive around your whole life and not notice or appreciate a good roof. I live in Wilson North Carolina, and it is amazing how many beautiful older houses have their original slate roofs (and probably will out-last the house itself?) It is just such a shame that this wonderful... |
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| 4. |  | Roofing, Flashing and Waterproofing (Best of Fine Homebuilding) from Taunton Price: $12.21 | |
| 5. |  | Framing Roofs (Best of Fine Homebuilding) from Taunton Customer Review:  Many of the chapters in this book are written by individual carpenters who "do things their own way". For instance, in the first chapter, the writer says to disregard previous techniques and use his method. In the 2nd and 3rd chapters, the writer talks about using power tools that are either... |
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| 6. |  | Roofing with Asphalt Shingles (For Pros by Pros) from Taunton Price: $16.47 Customer Review:  If you have a hip roof, get some other text: This one will cause you real problems with a hip roof. If you have a simple gable roof, this book can be helpful. For all roofing tasks, this book seems geared mostly towards helping pros speed up production. It lacks the theory and specific "tricks of... |
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| 7. |  | Roof Framer's Bible: The Complete Pocket Reference to Roof Framing 2nd Edition from M. E. I. - Publishing Division Price: $16.32 Customer Review: Professional framers will keep this book tucked in their pocket to reference while out on a job. |
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| 8. |  | Smart Guide: Roofing: Step-by-Step Projects from Creative Homeowner Price: $8.95 Customer Review: If you just want to save a grand or two by patching your own roof, this is simple. The Guide is small and easy on the eyes. Step by step projects without the hype. I'm very happy I found this at Amazon! |
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| 9. |  | Roofing The Right Way from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $19.77 Customer Review:  Very informative book. Helped me do the roof on my new garage with a gable dormer. No leaks and looks great! Lots of great info. the pictures could use an update. Some are hard to see exactly what they want to show but I am no novice. I bought it mainly because I never shingled a roof with a gable... |
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| 10. |  | Manual of Low-Slope Roof Systems from McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Customer Review: Technical but still readable. Even a do-it-yourselfer (if spending plenty of time rereading) can figure it out. Only book of it's kind letting you know the possible pitfalls from all the flat roof systems out there. Lacks some details I would have liked to have since I am not a professional. Very... |
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| 11. |  | Miller's Guide to Framing and Roofing (Miller's Guides) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $13.57 | |
| 12. |  | The Roofing Handbook, 2nd Edition from McGraw-Hill Professional Customer Review: If your hiring roofers make it maditory that they read this. and make it the company manual. I've hired several hundred roofers and few really know how to install roofs properly. |
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| 13. |  | Basics Roof Construction from Birkhäuser Basel Price: $13.20 | |
| 14. | [no image] | Roofs and Siding (Home Repair and Improvement) from Time Life Education Customer Review: I plan on siding my house in the spring of 2001. This book given the information that a do it yourselfer will need to do the job. |
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| 15. | [no image] | Roofing Contractor: Start and Run a Money-Making Business from Tab Books | |
| 16. |  | Profiled Sheet Roofing and Cladding: A Guide To Good Practice from Taylor & Francis Price: $93.91 | |
| 17. |  | Roofing: Materials & Installation from Sterling Customer Review: This book answered all my questions with straight-forward, easy to understand instructions and illustrations. It not only answers "how" but also answers "why". It covers every type of roofing I could think of. I'm not sure if it would offer anthing new to a professional but for a do-it-yourselfer... |
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| 18. |  | Roofing (Best of Fine Homebuilding) from Taunton Customer Review: I just bought a 5 year old house that has a common metal roof with overlapping panels. Some were not installed properly so I went looking for more information. This book has a chapter on metal roofing, but it is like an afterthought and doesn't delve into the various types. Except for the standing... |
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| 19. |  | Complete Roofing Handbook (Audel) from Audel Price: $31.60 Customer Review:  This was 1 of 4 roof texts I ordered through Amazon to prime my brain for installing shingles to my garage roof. Of the 4 texts, this was the least helpful. It covers a lot of things but nothing in great detail and it seems to be really out-of-date. I've always found that multiple texts are... |
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| 20. | [no image] | Thatch and Thatching (Shire Album Series : No. 16) from Shire Pubns Customer Review: After reading this book I would not like to try thatching! Not because the works hard or I don't like heights - its just I would not like to go to that amount of effort and still have a roof that leaked! Jacqueline Fearn covers a history of thatch in England with surprises such as smoke-blacken... |
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