Building Your Own Home

by Murray Armor (Author), David Snell (Author), David Snell (Author), Murray Armor (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $4.21

  Illustrated with photographs, diagrams and plans, this is a guide to building a home, written for those who want to manage the job themselves and hire the relevant subcontractors, and also for those who prefer to find an architect or builder to arrange everything on their behalf. The book provides advice on finding and buying a plot of land, obtaining planning permission, financing the project and choosing the design, and also offers an insight into the costs and problems encountered in a varied selection of case histories.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.26

  Each year thousands of people realise their dreams and build their own home. Written by the acknowledged expert in the self-build field, Building Your Own Home has for twenty-five years been the readers' essential reference, helping them through a minefield of conflicting advice and legislation. Building Your Own Home evaluates all the available choices. It helps you to find the right plot, choose the right design, make the right financial choices and shows you how to sort out the planning and other consents. It gives valuable information on how to go about building with either builders or subcontractors and illustrates this advice through real-life stories that highlight the experiences of self-builders. Packed with over 100 colour and black & white photographs, designs and plans, Building Your Own Home contains everything a self-builder needs to know and is the ideal companion to The Home Plans Book by the same author.

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  Hardcover
  1985

  $11.88