Home renovation & extension

Making Your Home Sustainable: A Guide to Retrofitting, Revised Edition

By Derek F Wrigley

Sustainable ideas, using natural energies, to improve existing houses in a cool-temperate climate

In 1991, architect and solar consultant Derek Wrigley moved into a townhouse in Canberra and faced a new design challenge – how to retrofit an existing suburban house to use renewable energies rather than fossil fuels. Convinced that building design could do more to achieve sustainability...

Published: 03/01/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781921844171

RRP: $45.00

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home, Third Edition

By Dan Ramsey & David Hughes

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Solar Power for Your Home, Third Edition, helps readers understand the basics of solar (photovoltaic) power and explore whether it makes sense for them, what their options are, and what's involved with installing various on- and off-grid systems.

Major topics include:

Published: 25/05/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781615640010

RRP: $24.95

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Framing Basics Illustrated

By Norman Skanon

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Framing Basics Illustrated does what Idiot's Guides do best: it makes what many perceive to be a complicated topic very approachable and easy to understand. Whether readers want to do some framing in their unfinished basements, add a closet to an existing room, or participate in the open air framing of their new homes, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Framing Basics Illustrated...

Published: 01/11/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781592576685

RRP: $34.95

The Renovator's Survival Guide

By Amanda Falconer

Are you contemplating a renovation? Do you think you know all about renovating houses because you happen to live in one? Have you looked at other people's renovation disasters and said 'That will never happen to me'?

If you have answered 'yes' to any of the above, then this is the book for you. Amanda Falconer, building industry professional and home renovation survivor, shows Australian home-owners...

Are you contemplating a renovation? Do you think you know all about renovating houses because you happen to live in one? Have you looked at other people's renovation disasters and said 'That will...

Published: 02/02/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143010418

RRP: $26.95