Reader’s Digest DIY Manual – Fixtures & Fittings

Expert tips and instructions for jobs around the home from putting up shelves to building furniture

The best-selling Reader's Digest DIY Manual is a byword amongst amateurs and professionals alike for reliable advice and clear instructions on every aspect of home and garden maintenance and improvement. Fixtures & Fittings will make sure you avoid the pitfalls of sagging shelves and ill-fitting skirting boards and rails, and gives expert advice on everything from hanging curtain poles to fitting a new kitchen and building flat-pack furniture. Completely redesigned for the iPad, this edition is practical and easy to use, with illustrations that can be enlarged, interactive step-by-step instructions and the best, up-to-the-minute advice on every aspect of installing and renovating fixtures and fittings around the home.


• Comprehensive guides to choosing appropriate screws, nails, wall plugs, brackets and other fixings   

• Interactive, illustrated, step-by-step instructions guide you through basic techniques

• Reveals professional techniques for fitting picture and dado rails, skirtings, architraves and coving

• Expert tips on hanging pictures and mirrors accurately and safely

• Reliable advice on the best current practice on every project