If you're planning any kind of home improvement, from having a room painted to adding a three-room wing to your house, you need How to Be Your Own Contractor , the complete guide to hiring and overseeing the work of more than fifty different contracting specialists. It covers: The Hamiltons discuss:
The first part of this book describes what to put in a contract when hiring a contractor to work on your home. That much was quite helpful. The rest of the book was really not very useful. It described the type of contractor you would need for virtually every little service you would want on your home, but most of it wasn't more than very basic information, and usually very redundant. If you have no clue whatsoever about the building process, it may help you, but there are far more informative books available.