| Edition |
Updated 2nd edition. |
| Description |
239 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Ultimate guide |
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Ultimate guide (Creative Homeowner Press)
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| Note |
Includes index. |
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Includes glossary. |
| Summary |
A complete DIY guide to enhance your home with walkways, garden walls, and patios, Ultimate Guide: Walks, Patios & Walls, 2nd Edition provides the homeowner with all the information needed to integrate popular hardscape designs into their overall home landscape. Included are dozens of design ideas with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for a variety of landscape projects, including brick, mortar, and concrete walks and patios, flagstone and tile patios, brick and mortared stone walls, and so much more. 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Design basics -- Planning your site -- Walk basics -- Soft walks -- Dry-laid walks -- Mortared walks -- Building stairways -- Dry-laid patios -- Mortared patios -- Dry-laid stone walls -- Wall foundations -- Mortared stone walls -- Concrete block walls -- Brick walls -- Retaining walls. |
| Subject |
Garden walks -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Sidewalks -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Walls -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Patios -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
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Landscape architecture -- Amateurs' manuals.
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HOUSE & HOME / Outdoor & Recreational Areas.
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Garden walks -- Design and construction
(OCoLC)fst00937841
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Landscape architecture (OCoLC)fst00991814
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Patios -- Design and construction
(OCoLC)fst01055061
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Sidewalks -- Design and construction
(OCoLC)fst01118161
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Walls -- Design and construction
(OCoLC)fst01170193
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300311807
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Handbooks and manuals (OCoLC)fst01423877
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Title |
Walks, patios & walls |
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Ultimate guide : walks, patios and walls |
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Walks, patios, and walls |
| Note |
Title appears on item as: Creative homeowner Ultimate guide : walks, patios & walls |
| ISBN |
9781580115858 (paperback) |
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1580115853 (paperback) |
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