Reddit reviews Time-life Home Repair & Improvement Set ( 36-volume Set)

I have a small section of these: https://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

And they are pretty awesome. While out of date, they provide an extreme amount of useful knowledge.

The Big Orange Book by Home Depot is also good.

Showing my age, but...yes, YouTube is GREAT, but I have really appreciated this series of books: http://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

I don't have all of them in the series, but the ones I have are well used. I can pour over them in preparation for a project and refer to them during. I don't need power nor internet to use them. I'm not a Luddite - I love technology. But when it comes to working around the house I go fairly low-tech.

My wife and I joke about how I measure the difficulty of a project; the formula is the number of Time/Life books + the number of trips to HomeDepot = project difficulty.

I'm a white-collar guy who has paid plenty of great tradespeople to do the "hard stuff" over the years. But at 52 I have a basement tool room filled with tools and gadgets I bought, used once, and said "next time I'm paying for someone to do that". But I wouldn't trade the bruised knuckles, sore muscles, and countless dust masks for anything given the satisfaction I have from doing stuff myself.

Good luck and have fun!

(BTW, the Habitat for Humanity suggestion is a GREAT idea!!)

https://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

We have the set listed below. Hopefully the link works, but it's for the Time/Life home improvement series. We bought a new one in the series every month or some such.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

A radon test and a set of these: https://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

Before there was Youtube I used a series of how to books published by Time-Life. They were sold by subscription, you’d get one a month. Each would on s separate topic, framing, wiring, plumbing, building decks and porches, masonry repairs and so on. They were carefully illustrated and well written. I subscribed for a while and then came upon a big stack of them at a yard sale. I’m sure they still show up for sale, no one puts them in the trash.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-life-Home-Repair-Improvement-Set/dp/B008271QRE

They got the Time Life series.