Tips & Traps When Building Your Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Irwin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 64243
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 246
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 007135686X
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.837
UPC: 639785323242
EAN: 9780071356862
ASIN: 007135686X
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 buy for people want to build their own home May 1, 2007
7 out of 7 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
14 out of 14 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.
Tips and Traps When Building Your Home February 27, 2006
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
If you're new to building homes, this is a good book to get you started.
Very Good March 15, 2004
37 out of 49 found this review helpful
This is a very good book that is easy to read. Now, there were some things that I disagree with, as well as other "expert" developers, but overall the tips and traps were right on. So, this is a book that you should read if you are building a hime, but also read at least one other good book. Because of some of those things that were too specific (i.e., not mentioning other reasonable options), I nearly gave it four stars. However, it is worth reading and normally would warrant the five stars.
Great Book, Easy To Understand... May 17, 2001
31 out of 60 found this review helpful
This book was the first book I read on building. It has also been very informative and simple to understand. If you are beggining in building this is the perfect book for you. The Author really knows what he is talking about. Unlike some other books out there written buy someone who has never done it....
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