Product Description

The Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding provides everything the homeowner needs to know to maintain, repair, and install all types of roofing and siding. Siding materials covered include traditional wood lap siding, brick, concrete block, stucco and fiber cement, stone veneer, wood shakes, shingles, vinyl and aluminum siding. Roofing materials covered include asphalt and fiberglass shingles, metal raised seam roofing, tile and clay roofs, slate, cedar shakes and shingles, and flat membrane roofs. Unique among books of this type, this volume also includes a complete section on exterior painting and staining techniques, including the use of scaffolds, airless paint sprayers, and other rental equipment.

The book is organized with major sections on maintenance, installation, repair, and painting and staining. Within these sections, individual chapters present in-depth information on working with each roofing and siding material. The chapters on painting and staining offer a unique do-it-yourself presentation of decorating the exterior of your home, with complete information on how to plan color schemes and accessories. The chapters on roofing and siding feature easy-to-follow directions for installing the materials of your choice.

The Complete Guide to Roofing & Siding is an ultimate reference source for homeowners who take pride in the integrity and appearance of their home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #594487 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
The Complete Guide series from the editors of Creative Publishing international is America's best-selling and most comprehensive line of home improvement books.

Customer Reviews

Half complete guide
This is a good book to use in planning what type of roof or siding that would
suit your project. Then buy a book how to work that particular roof or
siding.

Helpful
Helpful. Helps clue you in if you have never done roofing or siding work before. Won't magically turn you into a tradesperson (nothing can without on-the-job experience), but will clue you in on how stuff is done. I imagine that even people in the trade might benefit from it, if only to see variations on the way that their own company does things.

Great Book
Bought this book to help my wife and I to teach us how to remove old roof and install new roof. So far from what I have read, this is a great book! Lots of pictures and detailed instructions.

However,even though this book covers metal roofing it lacks in my opinion the details needed by a novice as myself to do the job myself. So the wife and I decided to go with asphalt shingles.