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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction
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Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the ins and outs of managing your construction project.
Learn how to get your project off to a solid start. Get financial and legal details in language you can understand. Learn what to consider when selecting a lot and how to deal with suppliers, labor and subcontractors. Gain understanding of building codes and inspections so you can manage with authority, confidence, and efficiency.
This extensive guide walks you through each phase of construction including preconstruction, foundations, framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, masonry, siding, insulation, drywall, trim, painting, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, tile and landscaping.
Completely revised and updated, this edition includes a new section on sustainable building as well as the most comprehensive building resources section ever compiled. You'll find schedules, order forms, control logs, contracts and checklists to help keep your project on track.
Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the ins and outs of managing your construction project.
Learn how to get your project off to a solid start. Get financial and legal details in language you can understand. Learn what to consider when selecting a lot and how to deal with suppliers, labor and subcontractors. Gain understanding of building codes and inspections so you can manage with authority, confidence, and efficiency.
This extensive guide walks you through each phase of construction including preconstruction, foundations, framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, masonry, siding, insulation, drywall, trim, painting, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, tile and landscaping.
Completely revised and updated, this edition includes a new section on sustainable building as well as the most comprehensive building resources section ever compiled. You'll find schedules, order forms, control logs, contracts and checklists to help keep your project on track.
- GenresArchitectureConstruction
957 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 2017
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About the author
Kent Lester
8 books42 followersAuthor of the latest sequel in the Dan Clifford series, The Third Instinct, published by Macmillan-Forge.
Author of the recent Dan Clifford thriller, The Seventh Sun, published by Macmillan-Forge.
Current non-fiction author of The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home, 5th edition, with over 350,000 copies in print.
Author of the recent Dan Clifford thriller, The Seventh Sun, published by Macmillan-Forge.
Current non-fiction author of The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home, 5th edition, with over 350,000 copies in print.
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December 22, 2020
For anyone looking to remodel their home, whether just a small section or the entire thing, this would be a good place to start. This book focuses a little bit more on the project managing side of home renovation, but goes into all major points of a home remodel if you're only focusing on a few areas. Want to learn a bit more about what it takes to frame a house? Want to learn a bit more about HVAC? What about materials that are commonly used to build a deck? This is a great place to start.
Seeing as technology continues to change over time, this is by no means the only source of information you should go to if you're looking for a deep dive into any one topic. However, it's definitely a really great place to start as you develop your goals for your next remodel.
There are some great forms at the end of the book that you can use to keep track of your home remodel project. If you want a digital version, you have to go online to pay for a copy. Or, why not just use the forms as a template and design your own?
If anything, there were a few occasional issues where entire paragraphs would be copied and pasted, verbatim, one right after the other. Probably not something you would notice unless you were reading the book front to back, but definitely in there.
Seeing as technology continues to change over time, this is by no means the only source of information you should go to if you're looking for a deep dive into any one topic. However, it's definitely a really great place to start as you develop your goals for your next remodel.
There are some great forms at the end of the book that you can use to keep track of your home remodel project. If you want a digital version, you have to go online to pay for a copy. Or, why not just use the forms as a template and design your own?
If anything, there were a few occasional issues where entire paragraphs would be copied and pasted, verbatim, one right after the other. Probably not something you would notice unless you were reading the book front to back, but definitely in there.
November 7, 2022
This book gave me a really good overall idea of all the steps involved with contracting a home. I know there’s a lot I still don’t know, but now I KNOW what I don’t know and can go about acquiring those specific skills and knowledge. It was an interesting read, and I feel educated on what kind of decisions to prepare to make. I really appreciate the check-lists at the ends of each chapter
November 3, 2018
Very useful resource for those building their own home or people in the construction trades.
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