I wrote this book because I want you to have a great experience building your new home or remodeling your existing home. It is possible. You don't have to listen to your friends who say, "Oh, remodeling is a nightmare," or "Building a house is a dreadful experience. I'll never do it." I don't want you to be in that category. I want you to be the person at the party who steps back from the circle of guests who are complaining about their architect and their contractor, and how much it cost, and the hardships they went through. I want you to step back from that and smile, knowing that you didn't go down that path.

“This book is chock full of wonderful tips to make your remodeling project a success!” – Howard, Email from readerThe book Remodeling Hell describes Charles Irion's journey as he endeavored to build his dream house. It includes a guide packed with money-saving tips about the home remodeling process. Remodeling Hell is often hilarious, but always valuable lessons of what to do and what NOT to do when building a new or remodeling an existing house.

This text actually narates jobs gone bad from the world of construction dealing with busts in plans, extras, delays, interference, scheduling, extra work, change orders, defective construction, inadequate supervision and incompetent contractors.

This tittle narrates actual jobs gone bad from the world of construction dealing with busts in plans, extras, delays, interference, scheduling, extra work, change orders, defective construction, inadequate supervision, and incompetent contractors. in other words - just about every problem in the construction industry.

Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga takes us on a tour of Hell’s Kitchen with an eye toward what we usually take for granted: space, and, particularly, how urban spaces are produced, controlled, and contested by different class and political forces. Varga examines events and locations in a crucial period in the formation of the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, the Progressive Era, and describes how reformers sought to shape the behavior and experiences of its inhabitants by manipulating the built environment. But those inhabitants had plans of their own, and thus ensued a struggle over the very spaces—public and private, commercial and personal—in which they lived. Varga insightfully considers the interactions between human actors, the built environment, and the natural landscape, and suggests how the production of and struggle over space influence what we think and how we live. In the process, he raises incisive questions about the meaning of community, citizenship, and democracy itself.