Builder's Guide to Change-of-Use Properties - Softcover

Woodson, R. Dodge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070718326 ISBN 13: 9780070718326

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1996

Synopsis

Now thousands of construction professionals can turn to the most detailed, reader-friendly information about leading-edge practices and technological advances in the industry.

Each guide the McGraw-Hill Builder's Guide's deliver:
-- indepth, comprehensive information on state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and technologies
-- traditional construction methods
-- practical, profit-boosting advice about marketing, image, and scheduling.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Income opportunities abound for residential contractors and remodelers entering the lucrative market of conversion work and change-of-use properties. You might convert a residential home into commercial office space, turn a duplex into a quadplex apartment building, or change an abandoned service station into a drive-in restaurant. The possibilities are limitless. This book provides you with a complete, on-the-job manual for making profitable conversions. R. Dodge Woodson, a successful licensed building contractor, includes details on all the considerations that must be addressed during the change-of-use process. You'll learn how to:

Select buildings that can benefit from a conversion

Thoroughly inspect buildings

Finance projects

Solicit bids from contractors

Create a budget and production schedule

Add or renovate windows, doors, and skylights

Combine old and new plumbing and electrical systems

Modernize cabinets and countertops

Meet building and fire code regulations

From planning the site work to designing the completed interior, this practical handbook has the information you need to get into the change-of-use business and start making money right away.

Synopsis:

Providing the reader with an on-the-job manual for making change-of use property conversions, which is fast becoming a lucrative speciality service, this book focuses on hands-on construction methods, concerns and advice, making it ideal for residential contactors, remodellers, subcontractors and project managers. Covering basic principles of remodelling and how it differs form new-home construction, it teaches proven techniques necessary to successful conversions, and provides information on issues such as legal concerns, financial aspects and budgeting.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0070718326
• ISBN 13: 9780070718326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356