Monday, September 13, 2010

Building Your Own Home

Building your own home: a comprehensive guide for owner-builders by George Wilkie is a new book that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"This complete guide to building your own home covers every step of the process. It explains how to select land and gives design guidelines, outlines the roles of professional consultants and the workings of control authorities, offers advice on preparing working drawings, details a who's who of subcontracting and the supply industry and includes detailed drawings showing how all the components are assembled to achieve the desired result.

"This completely revised edition includes sections dealing with new materials and systems and also covers the impact of the GST on the building process." -- back cover

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