Chix Can Fix: 100 Home-Improvement Projects and True Tales from the Diva of Do-It-Yourself by Norma Vally

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The Discovery Channel’s Tool-Belt Diva urges women everywhere to drop the honey-do list and "Honey, do it yourself!"

With more than 250,000 women enrolled in Home Depot’s Do-It-Herself workshops in the last two years, women are definitely taking the lead in America’s home improvement game. Now that women are making more of the home improvement decisions than ever before, it’s only natural that they would look to one of the most recognized home improvement experts on television— Norma Vally, the Tool-Belt Diva. But Chix Can Fix offers much more than just construction tips; it inspires women to take on home repairs—from wiring a light fixture to repairing drywall to fixing that leaky faucet for good—with confidence and gusto.

A comprehensive resource to common home repairs—including plumbing, electricity, walls, floors, doors, and windows—Chix Can Fix offers easy-to-follow instructions and more than two hundred illustrations for those who are new to plunging a toilet, as well as more intricate tasks for the seasoned DIYer, like installing a ceiling fan. Complete with safety tips, dos and don’ts, expert advice, quick shortcuts, and Vally’s own lively commentary, Chix Can Fix is the must-have guide for the wannabe handywoman.

Author Biography:
Norma Vally is the star of the Discovery Channel’s Tool-Belt Diva, which is in its second season and debuted this year as a radio show on the Sirius satellite network. Norma has appeared on Good Day New York and The Tony Danza Show and has been featured in USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, and CNN.com.

Library Journal

When the sink backs up or the toilet won't flush, women don't need to call a man for help. In this book on repair and empowerment, Vally, star of the Discovery Home Channel's Toolbelt Diva illustrates her can-do attitude with motivational narrative and instruction. While a bit philosophically top-heavy, the instructions are clear and basic. Unfortunately, the line drawings are a disaster-embarrassingly amateurish in quality. Vally's expertise is poorly represented in this book, which doesn't come close to the style and finesse of Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet's Dare To Repair, one of the ultimate female-friendly introductions to household repairs. Marginal, but there may be demand. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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