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I order a subscription and it takes 3 months. That's a bit too long for me to want to ever order another subscription through Amazon. I'll pay the extra 10% for something I can use a little sooner.
The price I paid could not be beat. I have had this magazine before and like the articles. It also has provided plenty of ideas on how to attach problems at my home. The only negative is I ordered in the early part of May and am told not to excect my first magazine until the end of July if I remember correctly. Seems to me to take an awful long time to get setup once you have paid your money.
This product has very good ideas and helps you with getting creative on your own ideas.great for people on a budget.
Its been 5 weeks since I placed the order and still have not received my first issue of this magazine.
They must have a problem with people canceling. To cover the magazine legally, there is vague advice in tiny type about using a sturdy branch. The phone number to cancel was in the tiniest possible type. (If you look at the fine print, the photos are all "produced" and "styled.") Then I got it.
I'm no home expert but I saw much misinformation and a lot of dangerously shallow information. I finally got fed up and canceled and asked for a refund after finding many errors in a recent issue. And may well eventually kill the branch. Many of the articles are pushing products, probably from companies that advertise on the TV show.
Despite the endless references to "Master Carpenter Norm Abram" and so forth, the TV stars are barely involved at all in the magazine. Drilling holes will weaken the branch. * Supposedly Norm Abram's toolkit has one of those expensive, useless many-bits-in-the-handle screwdrivers, instead of a set of simple inexpensive screwdrivers that actually work. * They recommend WD-40 as a lubricant. Have been getting increasingly irritated with the magazine.
(I don't watch the TV show, so I'm not sure). At any rate, the products and tools they recommend are almost always very fancy and expensive. How would they have time anyhow. A lot of effort is put into slick, clever, coy writing and beautiful photos. * They say to use a metal scraper blade to clean a glass cooktop. Some of many examples: * It tells you to drill big holes in a tree branch to hang a swing. I looked at the info up front and realized that the editorial office is in New York City.
It is well known that WD-40 is a terrible lubricant, due to the solids in it that make it an excellent rust-preventative. If you can't trust them on the topics you understand, you sure can't trust them on the topics you want to learn about. The writers and editors are professional magazine writers who live in New York apartments, writing about things they don't have personal experience with. Get "Fine Homebuilding" or the "Journal of Light Construction."
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