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These E-Books are available to you free of charge, to help you with some of your smaller home repairs. Along with the books we're featuring now, we'll soon be releasing some full length E-Books for sale, sign up for our newsletter to find out more.

Cutting Off Doors
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This short book walks you through the steps required to adjust the clearance of your doors by trimming the bottom. This is useful in houses where the flooring has been updated, or changed due to time. This ebook is formatted for veiwing on your "App" enabled smart phone with any .pdf reader application (such as iBooks or the Adobe reader app).
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How to Replace a Door
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This detailed book includes 20 full color photographs and step by step instructions that cover everything from picking out the right door blank to finishing the door, indcluding: cutting the door to fit, installing the hinges, installing the doorknob, and staining the finished door.

Changing Out Doors
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This book covers how to replace outdated by-fold doors with new by-pass, or swinging doors. It covers the pros and cons of each door style, and helps you choose the one that's right for you. Step by step instructions include removing the doors and reframing the opening, installing the headers, and much more. Also included are detailed instructions for sheet rock, tape, and mud for the new door frame.

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Exposed Aggregate
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This book shows you how to expose concrete, so that it has the 3/8 round rock exposed finish on the surface of the concrete. Step by step walks you through this sequence need to obtain this look.