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"Good roadmap", This book gives you an insight into the complexities of building your own house. Organization seems to be key.

"Good reference", Great reference for all the phases of building. A good general overview, does not go in depth on each portion. A good reference if you plan to build your own house.

"Not what I was looking for", I was looking for a book that had information one needed to know about subcontracting. I bought this book, because the computer search stated that this was the best book for this information, likewise, this book spoke more to it's topic "How to design and build your own house". It is obvious that what this book is speaking to, and what I was looking for are two totally different things, but it's very good for someone who is looking forward to literally building their own home, and not subcontracting.

"Misleading....", I bought this book a few years ago after reading the great reviews. After reading the book I was like "wow this stuff is extremely complicated you almost have to have a college degree or something to do this stuff" Well then I took Carpentry in Vo-tech and learned that things that they make seem extremely complicated in the book are really very simple. For example choosing lumber. You have a whole chapter in the book about different types of lumber, different species of tree, curing the wood and complicated tables to figure out what kind of species of wood you use. Well really its rather simple you go to local builders or home depot and just ask what wood is used for framing etc. usually a type of pine, but it varies for different regions.

While technically all the information is correct in this book its not in presented in an easy down to earth style. In my opinion the author(s) is purposely discouraging people from doing it themselves. He presents everything in an over complicated way and then encourages you to hire a proffesional repeatedly. If I was going to hire proffessionals to build my house why would I buy this book to begin with? Could it be that this guy makes (or did) make a living building houses and wants to maintain a level of job security? Though I can say most aspects of carpentry are like riding a bike, its very easily explained on paper and doesn't take much intellectually to comprehend, but like bike riding, its a skill that must be learned from repeated practice. Therefore, unless you have some background in doing stuff yourself or a knowledgable person helping you or you are planning to contract out the majority of the work I would not recommend building your own house either. The first factor is that a contractor has expensive equipment. To buy all the tools and equipment just to build one house doesn't make much sense. Plus the contractor buys supply's in bulk and gets them cheaper. So because of this you're not going to save as much money as you think you will. The other thing, like I said most of the skills take a lot of practice, which is great if you are building a new house every couple of months for a company, but to learn the stuff just for the purpose of building one house is stupid. My main plan however is to go into the industry and remodel old houses and such, and probably find work on occasion doing this stuff therefore it may make sense for someone like me to buy this book.

"Good Starter Book", As a person who is looking to build their own house the book provided a good start. It gave a great overview of how to design living area and incorporate ideas to the plan. As others have pointed out it is not current to todays innovations, however, it is a great start. I would use other construction type books to supplement the education received via this book. It also contains many formulas for calculating loads and other calcs for construction. I wish it covered more regarding slabs other than the crawl space one used in the example house that was being designed. It did go into detail about some of the more overlooked things in building a house - ie: stair and fireplace design. Overall, I don't think it would be for an experienced builder, however, it gives someone like me who does not know much about overall design and homebuilding a great start.