Renovering och tillbyggnad

En långlivad och älskad klassiker kommer nu i efterlängtad reviderad form. Så renoveras torp & gårdar är den ultimata handboken för alla som sysslar med gamla hus och som vill renovera med varsam hand och med gamla, traditionella metoder.Boken har funnits ända sedan 1970-talet och har successivt byggts ut till att bli en riktig bibel för alla som är intresserade av byggnadsvård. Under åren har den kontinuerligt uppdaterats, och även denna upplaga har reviderats med de senaste rönen.Boken berättar åskådligt i text och bild om hur man vårdar och renoverar ett gammalt hus. Den går igenom huset från grund till tak, detalj för detalj, och behandlar även gamla tiders trädgårdar. Det krävs inga specialkunskaper för att följa bokens anvisningar och råd. Ett ofta återkommande är: gör bara de nödvändigaste reparationerna och använd om möjligt samma material och byggnadsteknik som när huset uppfördes. Då riskerar man inte att förstöra ett vackert hus, nött av tidens tand men med gamla unika detaljer bevarade.

Byggbranschen har genom de senaste decennierna drabbats av flertalet skandaler, där material som tidigare hyllats som fiffiga innovationer visat sig vara skadliga för både människa och miljö. När man är mitt uppe i ett renoveringsprojekt kan det vara lätt att låta sig övertalas av en försäljare eller snickare som förespråkar ett snabbt, billigt, effektivt och lättarbetat material. Då kanske vi tackar ja till hormonpåverkande ftalater i plastgolv, allergiframkallande biocider i målarfärg eller luriga nanopartiklar som ingen riktigt vet hur de påverkar vår hälsa på sikt.

Författaren Katarina Johansson började själv fundera på vilka isoleringsmaterial hon låtit bygga in i väggarna och i taket på sitt gamla torp och ångrade att hon inte tog sig tid att göra research när material skulle väljas. I Rumsrent går hon till botten med kemikalierna och miljöfaktorerna inom byggbranschen för att höja medvetandenivån hos gemene hemmafixare.

»Våga bryta mot normen och snegla på alternativen som finns. Använd din näsa och ditt sunda förnuft«, skriver Katarina Johansson.

In Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines walks you through how to create a home that reflects the personalities and stories of the people who live there. Using examples from her own farmhouse as well as a range of other homes, this comprehensive guide will help you assess your priorities and instincts, as well as your likes and dislikes, with practical steps for navigating and embracing your authentic design style. Room by room, Homebody gives you an in-depth look at how these styles are implemented as well as how to blend the looks you''re drawn to in order to create spaces that feel distinctly yours. A design template at the end of the book offers a step-by-step guide to planning and sketching out your own design plans. The insight shared in Homebody will instill in you the confidence to thoughtfully create spaces you never want to leave.

HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story—with charm and humor in abundance—about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin.Hollywood producer Hopwood DePree had been told as a boy that an ancestor—who he was named for—had left his family’s English castle in the 1700s to come to America. One night after some wine and a visit to Ancestry.com, Hopwood discovered a photograph of a magnificent English estate with a familiar name: Hopwood Hall, a 60-room, 600-year-old grand manor on 5,000 acres. And with that, Hopwood DePree’s life took an almost fairytale turn.

Hopwood Hall, in northwest England, was indeed his family’s ancestral home. It had been occupied continuously by the Hopwood family for five centuries until the last remaining male heirs were killed in World War I. Since then, the Hall had fallen gradually into disrepair and was close to collapse. When Hopwood visited, he discovered trees growing in the chimneys, holes in the roof, and water sluicing down walls. It would take many millions to save the Hall—millions that Hopwood certainly didn’t have—but despite the fact that he lived in Los Angeles and had no construction skills, Hopwood DePree came to a conclusion: He would save Hopwood Hall.

Downton Shabby—the name Hopwood coined for the glorious ruin—traces Hopwood DePree’s adventures as he gives up his life in Hollywood and moves permanently to England to save Hopwood Hall from ruin. But the task is far too big for one person, of course. Hopwood discovers that the Hall comes with an unforgettable cast of new neighbors he can call on for help—from the electrician whose mum had fond memories of working at the Hall to gruff caretaker Bob, and the local aristocrats who (sort of) come to accept Hopwood as one of their own. Together, as they navigate the trials and triumphs of trying to save an actual castle, Hopwood finds himself ever further from the security of his old life, but comes to realize that, actually, he’s never been closer to home. 

There are plenty of do-it-yourself books on the market, but sound information about hiring and working with home improvement specialists is hard to come by. Written for homeowners who are hiring pros for large-scale home improvement, remodeling, and maintenance jobs, these titles feature visually appealing, easy-to-read layouts, and are packed with sidebars and callouts of special advice on how to hire a contractor.

Written by an author who is a licensed Master Plumber as well as a licensed Class A Builder with almost three decades in the construction field, each title features:

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The All-in-One Custom Homebuilders Guide--Fully Updated with the Latest Green Construction Methods

How to Plan, Contract, and Build Your Own Home, fifth edition, gives you the information you need during every step of the homebuilding process--from selecting materials to designing the rooms to working with a contractor. Featuring practical, cost-effective ways of planning, designing, and building energy-efficient homes, the book presents money- and energy-saving options in every chapter.

This thoroughly revised reference explains how you can implement many of the green construction strategies that make up the U.S. Green Building Council's award-winning Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines. Written by experienced instructors and builders, this is the most complete planning and homebuilding resource available.

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This exceptionally produced trainee guide features a highly illustrated design, technical hints and tips from industry experts, review questions and a whole lot more! Key content includes Careers in the Painting Trade, Safety, Ladders, Scaffolds, Lifts, and Fall Protection, Identifying Surface/Substrate Materials and Conditions, Protecting Adjacent Surfaces, Basic Surface Preparation, Sealants and Repair/Fillers, Introduction to Paints and Coatings and Brushing and Rolling Paints and Coatings.

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Brought to you by Penguin.A thousand years ago, around the time King Harold inconveniently got shot with an arrow and a group of ladies made a tapestry, in the south of France a man and his friends decided to build a house next to a church. Over the centuries many things happened in that house, none of which found its way into history books.With the coming of the first decade of the twenty-first century, One Place de l''Eglise had become rather derelict. The roof leaked, the mortar in the ancient walls was crumbling, a fertilizer bag stuffed a broken window. There was no electricity to speak of, the plumbing was a lead pipe in one room, the cellar doors had rotted. And there it stood. Shutters and doors firmly locked, the villagers of Causses-et-Veyran passing by to the church next door.Then, an impoverished - in his mind at any rate - Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought it. It was love at first sight.Over the years they gradually turn the house into a home. They navigate the language, floods and freezing winters. And eventually they find their place - their bar, their baker, their builder (ignore him at their peril).Slowly the family and the locals get to know one another and these busy English discover slower joys - the scent of thyme and lavender, the warmth of sun on stone walls, nights hung with stars, silence in the hills, the importance of history and memory, the liberation of laughter and the secrets of fig jam.One Place de L''Eglise is a love letter - to a house, a village, a country - from an outsider who discovers you can never be a stranger when you''re made to feel so at home. Old houses never belong to people. People belong to them.© Trevor Dolby 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022