Complete Idiot's Guide to Building Your Own Home

by Dan Ramsey

Book Overview

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Building Your Own Home , Third Edition is a clear, concise, up-to-date blueprint on every aspect of the home building process. It answers all the major questions readers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028643119
• ISBN13: 9780028643113
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

so good I bought the book

My wife and I are working through a construction company to build a new home. This book provided such great, specific suggestions, we are buying the book as opposed to borrowing from the library. If you want to pick up a hammer and nails and build your own house, this won't get you there. But if you want to negotiate specific terms w/ your construction firm and build a house economically, the book is great help.

Still afraid

Still going to try. Nice materials. Nice layout. Easy to follow. I think I can.

Dean Johnson says so.

I *love* Dean Johnson's HOMETIME TV show! He makes an idiot like myself figure out how to do repair jobs around the house. Now he has a rival: Dan Ramsey, author of an idiot's guide to building a home. Dean even wrote the foreword to Dan's book! Lots of practical advice on building a new house including whether to, instead, buy a kit home or a manufactured home. Thanks Dean. Thanks Dan!

home building 101

If you plan to design and build your own home you?ll need all the help you can get?and this book is a good place to start. Its set-by-step layout, highlighted notes, detailed glossary and clear illustrations make all those thousands of things you?ll need to know very accessible. After reading this book, you?ll have a much clearer vision of whether building your own home is a good project for you.