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Most of us would love to design and build our own home. In fact, more people than ever are doing precisely this. But how exactly do you go about it? How much of the building work should you do yourself? This manual explains the entire process in plain English, backed up with hundreds of colour photos showing real self-build projects taking shape. Each chapter is devoted to a key stage of the build from the foundations right through to snagging and completion. Whether you tackle some of the works yourself, or employ architects and contractors, this step-by-step guide will show you how to stay firmly in control, and cut out the stress, completing your project on time and within budget, and saving a small fortune!
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Ian Alistair Rock is an experienced chartered surveyor who carried out his first self-build project in 1999. Ian is a regular speaker at The National Self-Build Centre in Swindon, and is director of a chartered surveying consultancy and author of several best-selling Haynes House Manuals.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The thing about Building Your Own House is that so much of the subject relates to planning, finance, buying the plot, preparation and project management before you can even lay one brick on top of another. This book covers the whole caboodle from the idea stage right thru to completion on site and moving in.
We're building our own house employing key trades and doing some oursleves and I found this Haynes Manual very useful including the details of construction. There are laods of photos and diagrams which give it the edge over other books on the subject I've read, and it's bang up to date with all the complex air tightness testing and U-value targets and renewable energy that a lot of books seem to skip.
I think very few selfbuilders take on all the big stuff like bricklaying and roof construction from scratch, so it's probbaly expecting too much to be shown in great detail how to master each specific trade. You'd have to buy a separate book on each trade or really get yourself trained on a course until you have good experience. But this gives a very useful guide to each stage of the project, and shows which trades do what and when. All the different construction methods for floors, walls, roofs, drainage etc are explained with clear photos and diagrams. It's actually a pretty good read too with some amusing snippets. Enjoyable and useful guide.
We're building our own house employing key trades and doing some oursleves and I found this Haynes Manual very useful including the details of construction. There are laods of photos and diagrams which give it the edge over other books on the subject I've read, and it's bang up to date with all the complex air tightness testing and U-value targets and renewable energy that a lot of books seem to skip.
I think very few selfbuilders take on all the big stuff like bricklaying and roof construction from scratch, so it's probbaly expecting too much to be shown in great detail how to master each specific trade. You'd have to buy a separate book on each trade or really get yourself trained on a course until you have good experience. But this gives a very useful guide to each stage of the project, and shows which trades do what and when. All the different construction methods for floors, walls, roofs, drainage etc are explained with clear photos and diagrams. It's actually a pretty good read too with some amusing snippets. Enjoyable and useful guide.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was hoping for great things as I have another book by Ian Rock on Loft Conversions which is really good. But I found this one a bit disappointing. There was so much that it didn't cover that I wanted to know about. Its more practical than the other books I've read but it wasn't sufficiently detailed to be a proper construction manual - though it is certainly more about construction and materials than everything I want to know before deciding whether to try building a house. I have previously read David Snell's Building your own HomeBuilding Your Own Home 18th Edition which is a bit heavy and also getting a bit old but certainly covers a lot of ground - but not too much on actually building the house and Mark Brinkley's Housebuilder's Bible The Housebuilder's Bible Eighth Edition (8th Edition) which is brilliant and a great read - but which still doesn't tell you how to actually lay the bricks or set out the site - the really practical stuff. I suppose Ian Rock's book needs to be many times the size to be a really usable guide to building.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
very easy to read,very easy to understand,does what it says on the cover,very impressed with this book and can recommend it highly.just buy it you wont be disapointed
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