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Default DIY manuals - are they still a thing?

On Friday, 13 March 2020 08:26:43 UTC, alan_m wrote:
On 12/03/2020 15:07, wrote:
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 09:53:52 UTC, David WE Roberts (Google) wrote:
Back in the day I worked from DIY manuals, including a very good Readers
Digest one. We are talking 1970s though.


Is my memory playing tricks or did one vintage of this manual show you how
cover a panelled interior door with plywood (or quite possibly hardboard),
while a later vintage told you how to restore a door that had had such
an atrocity perpetrated on it?


Slightly before my time but I believe that was down to a DIY expert on a
TV program of the time.
My parents having purchased their first house covered all doors with
hardboard and boxed in the stairs with the same. It was the "modern" 60s
look.



Barry Bucknell anyone............