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Building A House Books
Books on Building A House -- For Builders,
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Building A House

Building an Affordable House
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Building an Affordable House
Trade Secrets to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction
If you are a builder, developer, or homeowner intent on getting the most from your new home construction or remodel budget, you need Building An Affordable House. This book gives you the insider techniques used every day by the best homebuilders in the country to save thousands of dollars on the cost of every home they build.
Building Better Homes
1600851053
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Building Better Homes - DVD
A Multimedia Training Program for Builders, Architects and Remodelers
Building Better Homes is a fully-interactive educational tool that demonstrates how to apply the latest building science tools and techniques to residential home construction. The Building Better Homes interactive DVD-ROM breaks new ground in home construction education by teaching cutting-edge, easy-to-access techniques through hands-on video, close-up photos, animation and step-by-step instructions. The program follows the entire construction process step-by-step, with photos of construction details, installation video clips, technical animations, and six hours of interactive construction content. Printable construction drawings, checklists and work forms can be put to use immediately by supervisors, foremen and subcontractors.
Building Your Own Home For Dummies
JW-0764557092
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Building Your Own Home For Dummies
Transform Your Bathroom From Blah to Beautiful
Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely — and staying sane during the process! Keep construction on track with helpful checklists, turn your dream of a custom home into reality!
Be Your Own House Contractor
1580178405
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Be Your Own House Contractor
Save A Bundle Being Your Own General Contractor
This book should be required reading for anyone who is thinking about building or renovating a house. The savings involved can make the difference between just dreaming about that dream house and actually building it. The primary message behind Be Your Own House Contractor is “You can do it!” According to construction expert and author Carl Heldmann, anyone can oversee the building of a house and save up to 25 percent by acting as the main contractor. This popular book has sold over 268,000 copies since it was first published in 1982. Written for those with little or no experience in the building trades, Be Your Own House Contractor clearly and simply lays out the steps involved in home construction and answers the many questions that arise.
Be Your Own Home Renovation Contractor: Save 30% Without Lifting a Hammer
1580170242
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Be Your Own Home Renovation Contractor
Save Up to 30% Without Lifting A Hammer
One of the surest ways to save a bundle of money on any serious home renovation is to be your own contractor. However, if an individual embarks on this effort not armed with all the facts and formalities, it can also be the proverbial primrose path to financial hell. Becoming your own contractor is neither as simple as it might seem, nor as potentially intimidating as worst-case scenarios might leave one to believe, if you have the facts and information you need before you begin.
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Creating A New Old House - Hard-cover
RC-T070666
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Creating A New Old House
Yesterday's Character For Today's New Homes
Here is the best of both worlds: New houses with old world sensibilities. In Creating a New Old House, architect Russell Versaci shows you that it is possible to design and create a new house that looks and feels like it has always been there. Versaci explores how architects, builders, and craftsmen are reinterpreting the traditional American house. Through photographs and engaging text, discussions of history and craftsmanship, and sidelong glances at the workings of real old houses, Versaci explains how traditional houses go together and what gives them their unique design appeal.
Drafting House Plans Book One: A Simplified System for Architectural Planning
0932370047
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Drafting House Plans
Complete Guide to Drawing Home & Residential House Plans
Draw a complete set of plans for a one-story house, or an additional to an existing house even if you've never had drafting or design experience. This complete guide to drawing home plans walks you through the process of developed a complete set of plans: visualizing spatial relationships, using standard architectural scales and symbols, sketching preliminary drawings, developing a detailed floor plan and exterior elevations, and preparing a final plot plan. Covers pertinent code requirements.
Energy Efficient Building - The Best of Fine Homebuilding
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Energy Efficient Building - The Best of Fine Homebuilding
Building Energy Efficient Homes with Expert Advice from Fine Homebuilding
Energy-efficient homes aren't just more economical, they're also more comfortable. This collection of 29 articles from Fine Homebuilding magazine will teach you how to make your home more energy efficient with information on materials and techniques that can make a difference in how much energy is required to make your home comfortable.
Green From The Ground Up
RC-T070980
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Green From The Ground Up - A Builder's Guide
Building Homes with Energy Efficient "Green" Building Techniques
A must-have reference for contractors who want to remain competitive, and a remarkable resource for homeowners who require the clearest and most thorough green building information available. Green construction is the building trend of the decade. In direct response to the growing demand for sustainable, healthy, and energy-efficient homes, it provides the best proven methods of new and remodeled green construction beginning with down-to-earth explanations of green building basics and moving on to site planning, materials selection, energy efficiency, and indoor air quality -- detailing every step in design and construction, from framing to finishes.
Green Building and Remodeling For Dummies
JW-0470175591
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Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies
Step-By-Step Guide to Building with Environmentally Friendly Construction Methods
Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion.  You’ll start by identifying green materials and sizing up potential systems and construction sites. You’ll weigh the pros and cons of popular green building methods and identify opportunities for saving money in the long run. Need to find some green professionals to assist you in your venture? We’ll help you do that, too
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Good House Parts - Hard-cover
RC-T070692
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Good House Parts
Creating A Great Home Piece By Piece
A good home is the result of good house parts -- a certain window, a special door, a punched dormer, a romantic overlook -- that are put together based on a homeowners personal vision. This is the thinking that makes Good House Parts required reading for anyone who imagines living in the "perfect" home one day. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience as a nationally know author and residential architect, Dennis Wedlick gives you what you need to make a distinction between the whole house and its unique components. He identifies hundreds of examples of quality house parts -- from doors and windows to columns and fireplaces. You learn how to choose elements that are perfectly suited to your particular lifestyle. Filled with ideas that transform a house, Good House Parts is the first book to present these parts as the building blocks for great design.
Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House Revised & Updated(Habitat for Humanity)
1561589675
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Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House
A Complete Guide to Building a House
Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House is a complete step-by-step guide to building a house from Larry Haun, the world’s leading authority on community homebuilding. Presented in a documentary style, each process is illustrated with full-color photos shot exclusively for this book and accompanied by clear, authoritative and friendly text. Whether you are a beginner or more experienced builder, this book covers everything you need to know about building efficient, affordable, quality homes.
Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry
RC-T070285
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Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry
A Comprehensive Introduction to Basic Carpentry Techniques
Few of us were fortunate enough to have an experienced carpenter like Larry Haun to teach us the basics of the craft. With nearly 50 years of experience as a production framer and as a long-time teacher of carpentry and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, Haun is a master of his trade. Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry offers newcomers to the trade, or anybody interested in acquiring the basic knowledge of carpentry for their own projects, Larry Haun's many years of knowledge and experience building accurately, efficiently, and safely.
How to Build a House: A Practical, Common-Sense Guide to Residential Construction
1450288618
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How To Build A House
An Overview of the Process Required To Build A House From The Ground Up

In How to Build a House, author and professional engineer George Michael Rentz, PE is informative and entertaining while taking the mystery out of residential construction. With more than thirty-five years in the construction industry, Rentz provides an overview of the information necessary when you are considering buying or building a new home. From the basics of site selection and design to cost estimates and construction, How to Build a House describes all of the steps integral to residential construction from the ground up.
How to Plan, Contract, and Build Your Own Home, Fifth Edition: Green Edition
0071603301
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How to Plan, Contract and Build Your Own Home: Green Edition
The Classic Blueprint for Do-It-Yourself Homebuilders with Over 900 Pages of Expert Advice

The Classic Blueprint for Do-It-Yourself Homebuilders Updated to Reflect the Latest Materials, Techniques, and Options! Covering everything from hiring the right vendors to choosing fixtures, this information-packed guide is a step-by-step roadmap for building a new home or remodeling an existing one. The heavily-revised Fifth Edition focuses on the latest technologies, materials, money-saving options, and environmentally friendly methods, allowing homeowners to save money, get more for their money, maximize their usable space, decrease maintenance costs, and choose from an exciting array of new options. .
Residential Remodeling Cost Estimator 2011 Edition
Labor & Material Costs for Residential Remodeling Work

The Residential Remodeling Cost Estimator contains over 250 pages of labor & material costs researched specifically for residential remodeling! We provide modifiers for over 300 different cities, making it easy to adjust your estimates for the local area where you work. Thousands of items used by remodelers are included in this comprehensive manual. The Residential Remodeling Cost Estimator is so complete it even shows the man-hours for each item and lists the hourly labor costs used for each category!
So You Want To Be Your Own General Contractor: Do-It-Yourself Overseer's Guide
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So You Want to Be Your Own General Contractor
Learn How To Be Your Own General Contractor From Someone Who's Been There

Yes, You Can Still Build Your Dream House and Still have Money for Your Retirement and even Send Your Kids to College . . . Save 30% to 40% 0n Your New Home . . . This could be anywhere from $50,000, $100,000 or $200,000 or even More . . . Depending on How Big You Build !!!My wife and I built a $ 750,000 home for less than $ 500,000. We took on the responsibility of the General Contractor. We had no prior experience in the home building process, but were able to pull off one of the biggest accomplishments a couple could ever tackle together. In the book, I explain the whole gamut from start to finish. There were many obstacles along the way, but we managed to overcome them even though we thought that the end of the world was near. I wrote the book in a humorous style which is reflected in the title..
The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home
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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home
The Essential Information Necessary To Manage Your Construction Project
This new edition of The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home gives aspiring homeowners exactly the information they need to manage their own construction project. Full-color illustrations and photographs with revamped forms and checklists present the material much like a project manual used by professional contractors.
Wood-Frame House Construction
CR466
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Wood-Frame House Construction
Master the Techniques of Wooden Frame House Construction

Step-by-step construction details, from the layout of the outer walls, excavation and formwork, to finish carpentry and painting. Contains all new, clear illustrations and explanations updated for construction in the '90s. Everything you need to know about framing, roofing, siding, interior finishings, floor covering and stairs – your complete book of wood-frame homebuilding.
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Working Alone - Hard-cover
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Working Alone - Tips & Techniques for Solo Building
Shows how you can become a dynamic one-man crew, handling nearly every aspect of house construction without having to hire or wait for anyone else. Explains how you can, on your own, lay out a foundation, build and erect walls, square up and straighten walls, install sheathing, lay out rafters, raise the ridge, get the roof square, install rafters, subfascia and sheathing, finish eaves, install windows and siding, hang drywall, measure and cut trim, install cabinets, and build decks
 



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Graphic Guide to Frame Construction
Graphic Guide
to Frame Construction

Building an Affordable House - Trade secrets to high-value, low-cost construction
Building an Affordable House

Building Your Own Home For Dummies
Building Your Own Home
For Dummies

The Very Efficient Carpenter - Basic framing for residential construction - Book & Video Combo
The Very Efficient Carpenter

2009 International Building Code
2009 International Building Code

2009 International Residential Code
2009 International Residential Code

Good House Parts
Good House Parts

Bomebuilding Basics: Carpentry
Homebuilding Basics
Carpentry

Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House
Habitat For Humanity
How To Build A House