The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home


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Save 30% on home construction! 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.







Kit Homes


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A complete guide for homeowners interested in purchasing and constructing a kit house




20X10 Segue House™


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Manufactured Housing


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An introduction to research & descriptive information on one of today's most promising -- & least understood -- affordable housing options mobile homesÓ. Contains brief discussions of approximately 40 books, technical reports, journal articles, transcripts, handbooks, & other documents that, taken together, comprise a basic road map to significant areas, landmarks, & pathways in research on manufactured housing.




The Complete Guide to Modular Home Building


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An accumulation of a successful builder's 25 years' experience in the building business, the last eight years in modular building. A real life case study that includes permits, cost breakdown & progress charts. Everything you need to know to finish your own modular home or to go into the modular home business. "Your book is long overdue & should contribute greatly to filling the void of public knowledge & acceptance of factory-built houses. Let's hope the builders are the first to read it. If so, their sales people can demonstrate the advantages of modulars to the consumers ... The home-building industry should bless your works." Russell E. Miller, Realtor, "Real Estate with Russ Miller," WWDB/FM "THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MODULAR HOME BUILDING is an excellent, comprehensive, easy-to-read manual on modular home building & a 'must read' for anyone wishing to save thousands of dollars on a new home. At a time when purchasing a new home is quickly moving out of the reach of most American families, your book is a most welcome publication. The mystique of building a new home, so jealously guarded by builders for decades, is now finally being shared with the home buying public. Home buyers will forever thank you for this book." Ross M. Gigliotti, Modular Home Sales Manager. "This book is a superb guide to the A to Z of modular housing, & should be in the library of everyone who is invol ved with or interested in the world of real estate." Phil Mitsch, Real Estate Broker




Manufactured Housing


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