All About Selfbuild: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Own Unique Home - Softcover

Robert Matthews

 
9780951529522: All About Selfbuild: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Own Unique Home

Synopsis

Anyone thinking of building their own home will find this book a fount of information. The book is lucid, conveniently organised, and comprehensive. The book covers all the essentials of selfbuild and more: Obtaining a plot, Design, Planning Permission, Building Regulations, Obtaining finance, and Getting in a builder or managing subbies. Then it describes the works: Laying foundations, Building the shell, Fitting out, and External works. Lastly, the book describes unconventional ways of building, technical choices, and eco-friendly techniques. Appendices go into all these topics in depth.

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About the Author

Robert Matthews has been writing about selfbuild for nearly twenty years, and is a regular contributor to SelfBuild & Design magazine. He has done four selfbuilds himself.

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