Download or read book Ultimate Guide to Walks Patios Walls Updated 2nd Edition written by Mark Wolfe and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete DIY guide to enhance your home with walkways, garden walls, and patios, Ultimate Guide: Walks, Patios & Walls, 2nd Edition features all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into your overall home landscape. Included are dozens of design ideas with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for a variety of landscape projects. With hundreds of building tips and construction drawings for projects, also included in this updated edition is new content on hardscaping design and materials, choices to consider that combat climate change, pervious versus impervious surfaces, terracing, and other elements that influence stormwater runoff and site planning, and more.
Download or read book Ultimate Guide Walks Patios Walls written by Editors of Creative Homeowner and published by Landscaping. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape art & architecture.
Download or read book Ultimate Guide to Walks Patios and Walls Updated 2nd Edition written by Mark Wolfe and published by Creative Homeowner. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete DIY guide to enhance your home with walkways, garden walls, and patios, Ultimate Guide: Walks, Patios & Walls, 2nd Edition features all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into your overall home landscape. Included are dozens of design ideas with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for a variety of landscape projects. With hundreds of building tips and construction drawings for projects, also included in this updated edition is new content on hardscaping design and materials, choices to consider that combat climate change, pervious versus impervious surfaces, terracing, and other elements that influence stormwater runoff and site planning, and more.
Download or read book Ultimate Guide to Walks Patio and Walls written by Emily Robert and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most current information on cutting-edge tools, materials, and building tips and techniques, an innovative guide to planning, creating, and constructing one's personal outdoor environment features detailed instructions and how-to tips for thirty gorgeous patio, walkway, and exterior wall projects, a wealth of unique decorative effects, and much more.
Download or read book Patios and Walkways written by Peter Jeswald and published by Taunton's Build Like a Pro. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This offering from the successful Build Like a Pro series provides complete in-depth information, step-by-step instructions, focused sidebars, and tips that add up to a professional patio or walkway project that homeowners will enjoy for years to come.
Download or read book Landscaping with Stone 2nd Edition written by Pat Sagui and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information for incorporating natural stone in a landscape and step-by-step instructions for a number of popular stone projects. Contains more than 335 color photos and 40 illustrations.
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide on how to Build Walk Patio and Walls written by George Victor and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most current information on cutting-edge tools, materials, and building tips and techniques, an innovative guide to planning, creating, and constructing your very own outdoor world features sixteen gorgeous landscaping projects, a wealth of unique decorative effects, and much more.
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Download or read book Driveways Paths and Patios written by Tony McCormack and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driveways, paths and patios are an essential part of most properties and this comprehensive book provides a detailed explanation of exactly how they are designed, planned and constructed. Discusses the design of driveways, paths and patios with reference to their planned use, style, size, gradients and special features such as steps, ramps and terraces. Considers the range of materials available including block paving, flags, slabs, setts, cubes, cobbles, loose aggregates, plain & patterned concrete and tarmac. Analyses how to estimate costs and making the choice between the DIY approach and using a professional contractor. Examines the critical issue of drainage. Lays bare the mathematics associated with accurate setting-out and levelling. Describes the range of tools and equipment needed. Details the correct constructions of kerbs and edging and laying methods for flags, block paving and much more.
Download or read book Landscaping with Stone written by Pat Sagui and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll learn the basic of designing and working with stone and how to use stone in walkways, patios, and garden walls, and as a focal point in your landscape.
Download or read book Retaining Walls written by Tina Skinner and published by Schiffer Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Concrete Masonry Association presents the essential guide to constructing segmental retaining walls with detailed, easy-to-follow diagrams and charts for do-it-yourself homeowners and landscape contractors alike. From the fundamentals to the latest research and modern techniques in segmental retaining wall construction, this colorful and inspiring gallery of design suggestions accompanies the expertly written step-by-step guide, and offers a plethora of landscaping ideas ilable and will inspire great new designs for all landscape styles.
Download or read book Black Decker Complete Guide to Patios 3rd Edition written by Editors of Cool Springs Press and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build a beautiful custom patio or walkway with the step-by-step, photo-illustrated guidance of BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Patios – 3rd Edition. A patio is the hub and heart of any yard. It’s the hard, flat, well-drained surface where you can comfortably enjoy the sunshine, feel a cool breeze, relax with a cold beverage, or hang around the barbecue with your friends and family. Luckily, patios are relatively easy to design and install yourself, and don’t require a lot of expensive tools and complicated techniques. BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Patios – 3rd Edition guides the way with easy-to-follow instructions to plan and complete virtually any patio or walkway undertaking you can think of. An extensive materials and design section helps you wrap your head around all the upfront planning, and the 30+ patio, walkway, and landscape projects are illustrated with detailed photographs to guide your progress. From flagstone to interlocking pavers or plain gravel, all options are covered, as well as design tips, excavation advice, how to install a subbase, and how to install the most popular surfacing products. You’ll also find a substantial section on earth-friendly patios that make use of recycled materials and keep water runoff to a minimum, conserving resources and removing pressure from our water-treatment facilities. Discover how to create captivating: Patio and edging projects using sandset brick, cobblestone pavers, mortared flagstones, tiled concrete, and more Earth-friendly patios using recycled plastic pavers, recycled rubber chips, composite permeable pavers, subsurface grids, and more Walkways and steps using sandset brick, concrete, flagstones, gravel, timber, and more Patio rooms and amenities such as an under-deck patio, patio enclosure, screened patio room, and patio kitchen Create the perfect patio for your needs with BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Patios – 3rd Edition and you will truly understand how much enjoyment these humble structures have to give.
Download or read book Landscaping for Beginners written by Andrew J Walls and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to turn your yard into a beautifully landscaped paradise? Of course, you are! Before you dive headlong into making over your yard, you should consider where you live and how that impacts your options. This beginner's guide to landscaping will give you a step-by-step process to transform your backyard with gardening, hardscapes, and botanicals. Regardless of where you live in the United States, you'll need to know the basics of what plants, trees, and materials will hold up in your climate and weather conditions. This is an important step when it comes to ensuring that your landscape endeavors are successful and leave you with a feeling of pride rather than frustration. You've probably seen plenty of gardening and landscaping businesses in your area advertising that they can make all your landscaping dreams come true. However, the easiest and most economical way to transform your yard is to take on the landscaping and gardening yourself! Fortunately, you have Landscaping for Beginners, to be your guide. Not only will you be taken through the process of planning your perfect landscape, but you will have access to lists of plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and even vines, that you can grow in your specific region. You'll be given ideas for constructing the best hardscapes for your climate and guidance about the materials that will ensure the longevity for your constructions. These tips and tricks also come with different design ideas so your creativity and imagination can conjure up the perfect landscape for your yard. Believe it or not, you are fully capable of designing and building exactly what you want in your yard. The best part about taking on a do-it-yourself landscape project is that you won't have to rely on someone else to make your designs a reality. Most landscaping projects don't even require a lot of specialized equipment, just the commitment to get it done! Do you have a small yard that you don't think is even big enough for a garden? That's okay, too! There are a lot of options for landscaping and gardening in small spaces, such as container gardening. So, regardless of what size your yard is, the skills you have, or where you live geographically, you can take the information in this book to completely makeover your yard. Use Landscaping for Beginners to make your yard the perfect place for your kids to play in, your friends and family to hang out in, and for you to hold your neighborhood barbeques in.
Download or read book Walks Walls Patio Floors written by Sunset Books and published by Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do-it-yourself techniques.
Download or read book Landscaping For Beginners written by Teddy Geis and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you always wanted to have a beautiful garden where you could spend wonderful moments with the people you love? Have you ever gone to the garden center of a big box home improvement store and seen some great looking flowers, plants or trees and thought they would look great in your yard, but you didn't know where to start? It's not difficult to grow great plants if you keep a few things in mind and avoid some common planting mistakes. In this book, let's go through the dos and don'ts of planting. You don't want to buy a fantastic plant and get it home and find out that it doesn't fit in your yard. Or worse yet, you decide to plant it anyway and then you have a huge plant that's taken over your yard. Just take a look a few other things you will discover inside: How to design your garden Dozens of ideas and practical information that you can use for your garden Fruit and vegetable trees that you can plant and enjoy with your family Lists of tools and materials for your project Hardscape How to maintain your garden landscape And much more! Once you've figured out where you want to plant, you can look at which plants are good choices to plant in the area. The most important thing to always remember when planting above all else, is to plant 'the right plant in the right place'. Planting the wrong plant in the wrong place will come back to haunt you every time. Spend a lot of time in nurseries discovering the various kinds of plants and trees that will grow successfully in your area. Get your soil tested even buying a test kit. Check the pH of your soil and what your plants need. Designing the exterior of your home increases its value, but you don't necessarily have to be a gardening professional or an architect because this book will guide you step by step in all your projects. Ready to get started? Click "Buy Now"!
Download or read book Ideas for Great Patios Decks written by Editors of Sunset Books and published by Oxmoor House. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded coverage of the new building materials available today Planning section helps readers evaluate their sites.
Download or read book Patio Walkway Ideas that Work written by Lee Anne White and published by Taunton's Ideas That Work. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 300 fresh ideas covering a range of patio and walkway styles and sizes, plus top-notch design advice, this volume is the most complete and up-to-date patio and walkway design sourcebook. Readers will delight in having instant access to all the essentials of designing and installing a new patio or walk, as well as accessorizing an existing patio.
