Titles in this set
Building Your Own Home 18th Edition
Housebuilders Bible 10
Grand Designs Handbook
Building Your Own Home 18th Edition
Hundreds of thousands of us renovate, convert, extend and improve our homes each year, and one-third of all new detached homes are self built. If you're looking to build your own home from scratch or work on your existing property, this is the one and the only book that you really need.Building Your Own Home has been updated and expanded by David Snell, acknowledged expert and guru in the field of self build and it remains the best book on the subject. Packed with authoritative advice, charts, diagrams and photographs, this fully illustrated bible contains everything you need to know, from finding and buying a plot of land to explaining planning and building regulations, financing the project, buying materials and choosing the design. In addition, it also gives an insight into the costs and problems encountered by self builders in a varied collection of case histories.
Housebuilders Bible 10
The Housebuilder's Bible is unique the first book in its field to mix information and advice with detailed yardstick costings for residential building projects. The author is an experienced house builder and renovator and much of the detail in the book is drawn from trade experience. It's very much an insider's guide and experienced construction professionals have expressed amazement at the amount of detailed information in the book. Yet it's accessible many readers who have never been involved with building before have used this book to successfully build their own homes.The 10th edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent changes in prices, Building Regulations and other legislation. It's an ideal companion for anybody, self builder or professional, who wants to know more about building well and on a budget. Previous editions have won huge praise. 'It contains all the things the trade know and take for granted, but that non trade wouldn't know' said one reader. Written in a highly readable style this tenth edition is fully updated and takes into account the recent changes in fuel and property prices.
Grand Designs Handbook
TV's architecture and design guru Kevin McCloud shares his passion and expertise in this brilliant guide to designing and building your own home, illustrated with the most memorable houses from the award winning Channel 4 series.The book goes way beyond the confines of the usual TV tie in. Over the 11 years that Grand Designs has been on our screens, Kevin has had plenty of opportunity to formulate his own strong views on what makes truly brilliant architecture. For the first time he can share those views fully, showing that ‘houses too can be architecture’ and giving any aspiring self-builder the maximum number of tools to ensure that their vision becomes reality, with the minimum amount of heartache along the way.
