Tips & Traps When Building Your Home |  | Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 246
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 007135686X
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.837
UPC: 639785323242
EAN: 9780071356862
Publication Date: August 28, 2000
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Product Description
Leading real-estate author Robert Irwin provides home builders with valuable money-saving tips to building a home from the ground up in Tips & Traps When Building Your Home. Featuring a self-test to determine whether the reader is more suited to hiring it all out or doing some of it alone, this user-friendly guide outlines the perilous traps that often come with building your own home. Irwin helps readers determine whether or not to hire out the entire process or whether to act as the primary contractor. Once that is decided, Irwin then helps builders determine: - How building and contracting effects home-owners' insurance
- Whether or not to hire an architect
- If building plans need to be presented to the local zoning board
- Contractors' and builders' adherence to electrical codes, sewage codes, and occupancy codes
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 A must have... August 28, 2009
Tami L. Rosengren (Serena, IL USA)
This is a must have to read before you build your new home. Great ideas that you need to consider even before you have blueprints. Easy reader, finished the book in a day, just reading for an hour here and an hour there. Very informative. Check out my other reviews on home building to see the 2 other books that gave me the confidence to general our new home.
 Content was good, condition was not January 30, 2009
Peter Malecha
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Book has good content. However, I paid for a new book and recieved a used one. Contacted customer service and requested a discount. They never got back to me on my request. Dissapointing to say the least.
Book on building October 24, 2008
Jayarr (Texas)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was quite a nice little book for anyone thinking of building your own home. Haven't done it yet, but got some good tips from the book.
A must buy for people want to build their own home May 1, 2007
S. Zheng
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is not the book to teach you all details of how to actually construct your home, but it's extremely useful to help you understand the process and get things started. Excellent "tips" and "traps"!!!
Light on detail but useful - a good companion book April 1, 2007
Laura C. (Bridgton, Maine)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a really thorough book, this isn't it, but many of the tips are very helpful. Read it with a highlighter and just mark the good stuff and then refer back. I bought this along with Woodson's "Build Your Dream Home for Less" and found that the two together were a great pair. Woodson's is very thorough and takes you through step by step, and Irwin's had a lot of additional tips that Woodson's didn't. Irwin tends not to define many of the "trade" terms he uses and for people who aren't handy, it's frustrating. On the other hand, Woodson does define most terms so if you read both, you're in pretty good shape. This book is not the be-all, end-all book but definitely worth buying - it should save you some money if you are general contracting your home.
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