What is involved in building your own home? Designed to assist in deciding if self-build is for you, this book provides the answers to the question: What s involved in building your own home? Selfbuild can be as simple as paying someone to do the whole thing or as complex as doing everything yourself or anything inbetween.The choice is yours. This book explains in plain English what s involved and helps you to decide if it s for you and if so, what s the right way forward. Subjects covered include: * Finance options * How to find land to build on * What s involved in getting planning permission * How to decide what size and style to build * Choosing someone to create the design * The pros and cons of each building method * Whether to employ a builder or employ individuals and a project manager... or even do it yourself! Hundreds of colour pictures help make this a must-have book for anyone interested in building a home.
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Jason Orme is editor of Homebuilding & Renovating magazine and has recently finished building his own home.
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This was a clear well thought out book that covered a variety of options to build your own hose with useful case studies to reinforce the messages
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This is a book which is packed with useful info and lovely pictures.
However, as pointed out by another reviewer - it is riddled with infuriating typos, layout errors, repetitions and truncated paragraphs at the end of some sections. For example, the caption on page 48 *literally* reads as follows: "Caption for this house that was built for caption for house that Caption for this house that was built for caption for house that". :-S
It's a real pity, because a bit of proofreading would have easily made this a five-star product.
However, as pointed out by another reviewer - it is riddled with infuriating typos, layout errors, repetitions and truncated paragraphs at the end of some sections. For example, the caption on page 48 *literally* reads as follows: "Caption for this house that was built for caption for house that Caption for this house that was built for caption for house that". :-S
It's a real pity, because a bit of proofreading would have easily made this a five-star product.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
We've been to a few shows and the more we talked to people the more complicated the whole self-build idea seemed. We like the idea but it all sounded a bit too hard. We bought this book because we saw it advertised and I'm so glad we did. It has helped us by explaining in a really honest way what's involved. After reading it my wife and I both felt we could do it. Only time will tell if we can but we're going to have a try and at least we now know where to start and what's involved. We'll use a builder rather than try to do it ourselves - now all I've got to do is find a reliable one!
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