Building Your Own Home: The Essential Guide For Anyone Wanting to Build, Renovate, Convert or Extend Their Own Home in the British Isles

If you're looking to build your own property from scratch or work on your existing home, this is the one and the only book that you really need. Building Your Own Home has now been fully updated and expanded by David Snell, acknowledged expert and guru in the field of self-build and it remains the best book on the subject. Packed with authoritative advice, charts, diagrams and photographs, this fully illustrated bible contains everything you need to know, from finding and buying a plot of land to explaining planning and building regulations, financing the project, buying materials and choosing the design. In addition, it also gives an insight into the costs and problems encountered by recent self-builders in a varied collection of new case histories.