How to Be Your Own Contractor and Save Thousands on Your New House or Renovation While Keeping Your Day Job: With Companion CD-ROM
by Tanya Davis
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Author: Tanya DavisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 1601380046
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
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Book Review: Great Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is written for those of us who want to remodel or build our own dream home, and don't want to hand over all decisions to a contractor. You don't even need to know how to hold a hammer for this book to teach you all you need to know to make good decisions and run every aspect of your build. If you want to be involved in every stage of your project, and know why you made every decision right down the line, this is the book for you.
"How to Be Your Own Contractor..." is written with three goals in mind:
* Describe each major step in the building process, providing checklists and common mistakes for each
* Save YOU money
* Save YOU time
It covers each goal surprisingly well in an organized and detailed fashion. This book DOES NOT address issues like steps to lay floor or drywall. It DOES cover the whole contracting process including how to manage subcontractors and materials (managing all people and things), and how to make informed decisions and get the best deals all along the way. It provides direction on how to juggle building or remodeling with your own job and family responsibilities.
This book details the best floor plans, how to choose durable materials that will save you time and money in repairs later, and how to choose thickness of walls. Chapters include (these are just a few):
* Financing (for new builds and remodeling)
* Insurance
* Find & Negotiate with Subcontractors
* Complying with building code, inspection, and permit requirements
* Potential Dangers and How to Prevent Them
* Potential Problems and Common Mistakes
Each chapter provides a checklist of all materials, paperwork, and tasks you need to complete before getting started--a great help with some of these chapters! There is a lot of information on site safety, and accident prevention too--very important for you and your wallet!
This book gives complete details on the process, useful information, and great resources for further help. This is a very user-friendly, useful book! Highly recommended if you want to be your own contractor, even if you don't know anything about it going in to your project.
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If you're thinking about building or remodeling your house, you should consider hiring yourself as the contractor. You can save 10% to 35% of the project's cost and perhaps more important, you'll be able to monitor the quality of materials and workmanship, fine-tune the design, and make sure the result meets your needs. The best part is you can do this part-time without picking up a hammer. This all sounds great, what is the catch? There really is none, except you must know what you are doing! This groundbreaking and exhaustively researched new book will provide everything you need to know to get your house or renovation completed the way you want it while saving thousands. Since your success depends on thorough preparation as well as an ability to hire and schedule subcontractors, control costs, keep work moving, and stay calm we have charted the course for you to avoid costly even illegal mistakes. In this easy to read, comprehensive new book you will learn step-by-step procedures for subcontracting and building your home or renovating while still working full time. You will learn how to choose a site, draw up construction time line and flow charts, apply for construction loans and financing, obtain essential insurance information, buy inexpensive plans, find and negotiate with sub contractors, and comply with building code, inspection, and permit requirements. Now you can be armed with the right information and save money and time. The ins and outs of self contracting are explained, combined with the experiences of others, and with dozens of forms and checklists at hand, you will learn all about: building materials and foundations, floors, walls, paint, windows, decks, garage doors, roofing, flashings, chimneys, plumbing: piping, fixtures, faucets, water heating and fuel storage systems, pools and equipment, wiring: main service panels, conductors, switches, receptacles, heating, air conditioning and heat pumps, ceilings, floors, railings, doors and windows, attics, walls, kitchens, and bathrooms. In addition you will gain valuable information about: septic systems, wells, water quality testing, mold, radon testing, asbestos, termites, carbon monoxide testing, and lead testing. Included in this book are hundreds of easy-to-implement tools, contracts, forms, and checklists to help you get your project organized, and easier to manage while saving thousands! Expertly organized, this unique book takes you step-by-step through the many valuable forms contained in this work which may be easily printed out and customized from the companion CD-ROM.Entrepreneurship Books
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