Thank you for posting this!
We are actually using this book for our lab book in chemistry this year. I found Apologia all right for a ninth/tenth grade high school intro, but was concerned that it wouldn't be what I wanted for our second round of chemistry, especially with regards to labs and the amount of math covered. I emailed the author about some beefier labs, but he just referred back to the microchem set they advertise--not quite what I want!
Anyway, we went with Chemistry: The Central Science by Brown, Bursten, and Lemay for our text and I was trying to pull together various labs from here and there (internet and college lab books) when I came across this little gem. I have to say, so far I'm impressed!
It's very homeschool friendly in that it's written for a non-classroom situation. However, it is not cheap! We had a fair assortment of glassware bits from previous science courses, but I've spent a couple of hundred dollars on chemicals and equipment (like a calorimeter). I'm a bit of a closet chemistry buff AND I have all three of my teens doing the labs, so I'm all right with this.