By Robert Matthews                     £22 (Post free)

This edition 2002 First edition: 2002 Published by: Blackberry Books Paperback 560 pages 16 cartoons
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The text is lucid, conveniently organised, and comprehensive. Both

novices and serial selfbuilders will find it invaluable.

Our comments:

This book is the only complete guide to building your own home. It covers

the whole selfbuild process from finding a plot to eventually making a garden.

It describes the many choices that are open to the selfbuilder along the

way, and it gives plenty of good advice about engaging architects, builders

and subcontractors. The build process is described so that the selfbuilder

can understand what is happening on site.

Extensive appendices give the finer detail as and when you require it.

Contents:

Introduction to Selfbuild

Outline of a Selfbuild Project

The Quest for a Plot

Designing Your Home

Planning Permission

Building Regulations

Money Matters

Contracting Out the Build

Managing the Build Yourself

Laying the Foundations

Building the Shell

Fitting Out

External Works

Other Ways of Building

Some Technical Choices

Building a Green and Healthy Home

Appendices (150 pages)

InfoFile

The InfoFile was intended to be a companion volume to All About Selfbuild - a directory of manufacturers and services of interest to house builders which would be published as a separate book. But the rapid increase in the use of the the world wide web has led us to cancel publication.