How to Plan, Contract, and Build Your Own Home

by Richard M. Scutella, Dave Heberle

Step-by-step blueprint for do-it-yourself home builders. From locating an architect, to hiring workers, to selecting features and fixtures, and more, here's how to build or expand your own home from start to finish--and save! Richard M. Scutella and Dave Heberle's soup-to-nuts guide, How to Plan, Contract and Build Your Own Home, Third Edition, leads you through the perils of homebuilding to make sure you end up with exactly what you want. You get point-by-point tips on choosing a site and style, keeping home traffic patterns sensible, deciding on the right size for rooms, preparing plans, getting permits and more. Unique "quality control" insights into each stage of construction highlight problems to watch out for--foundation, roof, floors, walls, stairs, walkways and driveways, heating and cooling, electrical capacity and wiring, even computer wiring and alarm sensors. From turning the first shovel of earth to the final inspection, this homeowner's construction manual makes sure your dream house will be a dream come true.

410 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1987

Reviews

[Pankaj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finished this one in January, somehow forgot to update. Anyway this is very helpful and full of logic DIY book. It helps any layperson to fit a lot of imagination in a lot less square footage.