Whats the Dr. Spock of home repair and renovation?
I started out, long ago, with the Home Depot series, and then graduated into various Taunton publications (Fine Homebuilding article reprints and the like). Good high-end sites include: JLC online (Journal Light Construction). Geared more toward the professional, so be careful asking questions, if you do at all. Ask The Builder: More on the “Home Depot Book” side of things (more consumer, less tradesman)–but still good. For tricky jobs that require some knowledge of best practices and an inkling of code (without having the code books myself, you understand), I’ve been referring to Residential and Light Commercial Construction Standards, billing itself as “The All-In-One, Authoritative Reference Compiled from Major Building Codes, Recognized Trade Custom, Industry Standards “. That’s a pr
