On Jan 7, 9:47 pm, "Bob Eager" wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:03:42 UTC, "The Medway Handyman"

wrote:
Clive George wrote:
"benpost" wrote in message
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i'm interested in buying a diy book, can anyone recommend any?

Isn't the Collins one normally recommended?

It should be. The B&Q one is quite good as well.

I've been given a selection, and the Collins one is the best IMO.

Seconded. Or should that be thirded? ;-)

I've got the Collins book and can highly recommend it. The Reader's
Digest one is good too.

As the others have said a single book can never cover anything,
however if you're relatively new to DIY something like Collins will
teach you a LOT. Even if you're beyond 'beginner' stage such a book
will still fill lots of knowledge gaps.

If nothing else a book like this will give you good grounding for
asking questions around here, if only to use the correct terminology!

Mathew

P.S. I see Amazon sell it for half price (£12.50) - but make sure you
go for the latest version (Oct '07 - see http://preview.tinyurl.com/2ta3tq)