Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Garden & home builder (Volume 4)
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
A Wing Design Method for Aerospace Students and Home Builders: Strength, Weight, Flutter, Divergence, Buckling, Deflection, and Twist
Marty Ferman has developed a wing design method for use by Aerospace students in their senior design classes, and for the Home Builders of aircraft. The method allows for rapid determination of strength, weight, flutter, divergence, buckling, deflection, and twist. The method allows for preliminary design phase for a basic sizing, and then the interim and final phases follow to fill out the structure to a fabrication level. The flutter and divergence aspects are rarely covered in most design books, so there can be enhanced safety. The method presents a unique representation for the preliminary design phase where the wing skin thickness is a key factor readily found and used for the stiffness and weight calculations. Here the user can see what is needed. The method uses many closed-form expressions for the straight, unswept cantilevered wing of constant spanwise properties, with suggested forms for the non-uniform wing. This method was evolved by Ferman during his fifty-six years in Aerospace Industry and Academia.The Green Home: A Decision Making Guide for Owners and Builders
What does a "green" home look like? What are its characteristics, and how can you ensure that you meet the highest green standards within a given budget? The answers to these questions and more are found in The Green Home, a book dedicated to teaching builders and homeowners alike about environmentally-friendly residential construction. This highly practical resource explores the very latest construction techniques, materials, processes, and green practices that will reduce the environmental impact of the building itself. Coverage ranges from air sealing measures and energy efficient practices to water conservation and the usage of natural materials, with a special focus on complying with zoning ordinances and building codes. With thorough explanations of the many benefits of green building, this is the perfect "nuts and bolts" guide to environmentally-sound homes.Dictionary of French Building Terms - Essential for Renovators, Builders and Home-Owners
This essential dictionary and phrase book includes every term you need to know when buying, maintaining, renovating or building a home in France. Accessible and comprehensive, it includes the technical words you won’t find in an ordinary dictionary for tools and equipment and every aspect of painting, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It also equips you with terminology for planning structural changes such as extensions and determining boundaries. An appendix of emergency phrases will make this a book you’ll want to keep by the phone at all times. Whether you own a home or work in France, this book will help you talk to French tradesmen with authority and avoid costly misunderstandings as you pull down the language barrier brick by brick.Affordable Housing: A Resource Guide to Alternative and Factory-Built Homes, New Technologies, and the Owner Builder Option
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.
Black & Decker The Complete Outdoor Builder: From Arbors to Walkways: 150 DIY Projects
Adding beautiful, functional patios and walkways to the yard has never been easier thanks to this book. Over 150 projects and hundreds of instructional photographs combine with informative tips, tricks, and inspiration for the most comprehensive patio and walkway book on the market. From low-cost, curb-appeal walkways to expansive, estate-quality decorative concrete patios complete with outdoor kitchens, this book presents each project with step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs as well as informative tips, tricks, and inspiration. Each project uses the most current materials, tools, common practices, codes, and construction techniques to help readers add value to their homes and allow them to enjoy their outdoor spaces to full potential. Whether an existing patio needs to be freshened up or an unused space in the yard is just waiting to be put to use, this book is a crucial resource for do-it-yourself homeowners.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Home Builders of Tomorrow
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.
Contracts With the Trades: Scope of Work Models for Home Builders
Trade contractors have a significant impact on your success or failure. This publication shows how to develop a positive approach to contracting with the trades in order to deliver quality products within cost, on time and at a profit; how to prevent misunderstandings; how to improve scheduling and coordination; and how to develop enduring relationships with reliable trade contractors. Features sample trade contracts and scope of work language. Includes 3.5-inch IBM compatible diskette with sample forms and scopes. Files are provided in Microsoft Word 6.0, WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 and ASCII. From Home Builder Press, 1997, 124 pp.Basic Business Management: A Guide for Small Volume Home Builders
Learn how to obtain financing, control costs, ensure consistent quality standards, and more effectively manage your employees and trade contractors. You’ll find out how to identify market and industry trends that will yield business opportunities. Whether you are just starting your small-volume building business or you want to refine your current business practices, Basic Business Management will provide you with management guidance you can use to improve your efficiency and profitability.Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction (Builder's Guide)
A thorough, informative, and up-to-date reference on green, sustainable and energy-efficient home construction that clarifies definitions of green and sustainable and guides builders and architects through the process of new or remodel green construction, including issues of site, landscaping, durability, and energy-efficiency. It starts with clear explanations of the concepts and fundamentals of green, healthy and energy-efficient construction and walks the reader through the entire construction process, injecting expert advice at every decision point. Construction techniques, materials, and products are thoroughly explained, making the often vaguely understood concepts cleanly understandable. The book gives builders and architects the tools to respond to growing requests from homeowners for green and energy-efficient houses, whether new or remodeled. Homeowners can use the book to understand the concepts, process, and options, whether they're doing it themselves or working with a professional.Daily Field Guide: A Logbook for Home Builders, Second Edition
Organization is the key to any superintendent or project managerÂ’s success. With this revised edition of Daily Field Guide, you can manage the details to keep each job running smoothly and on schedule. Use it to keep accurate records of jobsite activities, to document what happened during the course of construction, and to schedule trade contractors and suppliers. This concise logbook will help you gather and organize the essential information you need to have on the jobsite. Now includes a computer disk, so you can easily modify and personalize each form, chart, and checklist.Dream Homes Georgia: An Exclusive Showcase of Georgia's Finest Architects, Designers and Builders
Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end custom homes, these gorgeous books are a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own one-of-a-kind houses. Profiles of top architects and information on local builders and suppliers provide an overview of regional styles and preferences in each city.
Atlanta, Savannah, Sea Island, and St. Simons Island are featured in this collection of stunning custom homes in Georgia. Architects profiled include Bill Harrison, Norm Askins, and William T. Baker, and builders profiles include James Cotton of Builders II; Dean Johnson of Johnson, Williams and Harris; and Harry Beecham of Beecham Builders.
Sunday, October 02, 2011
NAHB's Home Builder's Handbook
ALL-IN-ONE HOME BUILDER’S RESOURCE Who better to meet the needs of the home builder than the organization that represents more than 200,000 home builders nationwide? In The NAHB Homebuilder’s Handbook, the NAHB has collected its industry expertise into one comprehensive resource just for your needs. This quick-answer guidebook helps you problem-solve in every area of your business. You get solutions that streamline your work, cut costs, and save you time -- in the office and onsite.
Look between its pages for:
Checklists, up-to-date code information, and technical data in an at-a-glance format
Budget-sparing safety and regulatory solutions
Guidelines for estimating, scheduling, quality control, and boosting sales
A handy set of personalized management, accounting, and business tools just for home builders
Reliable guidance on contractual and legal issues
More!
Commercial Building: An Introduction for Home Builders
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.
The Contractor's Legal Kit: The Complete User-Friendly Legal Guide for Home Builders and Remodelers
Contractors will never again be without the legal information they need. This user-friendly guide for home builders and remodelers includes a free CD-ROM with legal forms and contracts available to copy and adapt for their needs.
Housing construction process flow manual: a manual to help small-volume home builders plan, schedule, and monitor construction
Marty Ferman has developed a wing design method for use by Aerospace students in their senior design classes, and for the Home Builders of aircraft. The method allows for rapid determination of strength, weight, flutter, divergence, buckling, deflection, and twist. The method allows for preliminary design phase for a basic sizing, and then the interim and final phases follow to fill out the structure to a fabrication level. The flutter and divergence aspects are rarely covered in most design books, so there can be enhanced safety. The method presents a unique representation for the preliminary design phase where the wing skin thickness is a key factor readily found and used for the stiffness and weight calculations. Here the user can see what is needed. The method uses many closed-form expressions for the straight, unswept cantilevered wing of constant spanwise properties, with suggested forms for the non-uniform wing. This method was evolved by Ferman during his fifty-six years in Aerospace Industry and Academia.BUILDERS' HOMES FOR BETTER LIVING
Builders' Homes for Better Living deals with the business of building; materials and methods of structure; design concepts of the house; relationship of the house to the individual lot and landscaping; and community planning. Since the builder house will continue to be constructed and sold, the welfare of the community, and the nation as a whole, will be strongly affected by the manner in which this is done. This book therefore, is an invaluable source of information to all interested in an improving pattern of living - builders, architects, engineers, site planners, civic leaders, investment agencies and especially the individual buyer, who, for the first time, will have a basis for judging the over-all merits of his prospective purchase.Joseph Eichler, a truly progressive builder, whose untiring efforts have advanced greatly the concepts of todays development houses, this book is respectfully dedicated.
Home Esteem Builders: Activities Designed to Strengthen the Partnership Between the Home and School
Contains a variety of activities designed to help parents in their home esteem-building endeavors and in their own understanding of the Five Building Blocks of Self-Esteem concept. Included in this manual are 40 home esteem-building activities, 15 parent newsletters, handouts with esteem-building tips for educators to give to parents, a complete script for a parent inservice, and plans for school wide events for parents. Helps parents and teachers coordinate their activities for the benefit of the student.
Saturday, October 01, 2011
Sales and Marketing Checklists for Profit-Driven Home Builders
The updated edition of this popular book cover the major steps involved in successful new home sales. Learn the ins and outs of the comprehensive contract, the move-in, warranty service, asking for referrals, and a great close. This expanded second edition includes a new chapter on utilizing technology in your marketing and a more extensive chapter on mulitcultural sales.Estimating With Excel: Unlocking the Power for Home Builders, 2nd Edition
If you want a simple, step-by-step guide to improve the accuracy and speed of building estimates, Estimating with Microsoft Excel was written for you. Author Jay Christofferson, a recognized expert in computerized estimating, teaches you how to build a fully customized estimating program that addresses your specific estimating needs. Create estimates that are powerful and reliable enough for your most important management decisions. Loaded with detailed instructions—from programming basic formulas to automating Excel to integrate with other software packages— Estimating with Microsoft Excel will show you how to set up an accurate, efficient estimating system. Examples from the text, templates you can use to set up your estimating system, and a demo of EstimatorPRO are included on the CD.Carpentry and Interior Finish: More Tricks of the Trade from an Old-Style Carpenter (Home Builder's Library)
Marty Ferman has developed a wing design method for use by Aerospace students in their senior design classes, and for the Home Builders of aircraft. The method allows for rapid determination of strength, weight, flutter, divergence, buckling, deflection, and twist. The method allows for preliminary design phase for a basic sizing, and then the interim and final phases follow to fill out the structure to a fabrication level. The flutter and divergence aspects are rarely covered in most design books, so there can be enhanced safety. The method presents a unique representation for the preliminary design phase where the wing skin thickness is a key factor readily found and used for the stiffness and weight calculations. Here the user can see what is needed. The method uses many closed-form expressions for the straight, unswept cantilevered wing of constant spanwise properties, with suggested forms for the non-uniform wing. This method was evolved by Ferman during his fifty-six years in Aerospace Industry and Academia.Homeowner Manual : A Template for Home Builders 2nd Edition
Use this manual to create your own company homeowner manual that explains your contract documents, policies, procedures, and philosophy. By using the text included on computer disk and following the guidelines provided in the text, you provide your customers with an organized, professional, and easy-to-understand homeowner manual. Covers purchasing, financing, selections, construction, orientation, closing, maintenance and warranties.Carpentry and Exterior Finish: Some Tricks of the Trade from an Old-Style Carpenter (Home Builder's Library)
This project-oriented resource provides home builders and contractors with documents, contracts and worksheets required to efficiently and profitably run their business. A floppy disk is also included with the text containing all the documents and forms featured.
Documents, Contracts, and Worksheets for Home Builders
This project-oriented resource provides home builders and contractors with documents, contracts and worksheets required to efficiently and profitably run their business. A floppy disk is also included with the text containing all the documents and forms featured.Friday, September 30, 2011
Social Media for Home Builders 2.0: It's Easier Than You Think
This popular resource teaches builders and residential construction professionals how to use social media tools such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and YouTube, to increase their visibility and improve their sales results.Social Media for Home Builders 2.0: It s Easier Than You Think is designed to help readers understand social media and construct a strategic plan for attracting more prospects, following up on leads, and closing more homes.
The updated edition includes even more examples, details, and strategies than the first edition, featuring
* examples of specific social media campaigns and their sales results by builder type
* sample tweets and Twitter campaigns to draw foot traffic to homes and communities
* new research on how people are using social media
Carol Flammer outlines in a clear, concise style how to engage consumers through social media. She provides content suggestions for creating a blog and keeping it going. Specific blog content and real-life examples of blogs that attracted readers are included.
Social Media for Home Builders 2.0 also explains how to
* Improve search engine optimization (SEO)
* Win friends and followers
* Find the right groups
* Run campaigns
* Optimize websites, blogs, and other social networking sites
* Track, analyze, and improve results
Marketing Made Easy!: Basics for Home Builders
In this practical handbook written just for small-volume builders, you'll learn how to evaluate your current marketing efforts, determine your needs, create a distinct market identity, outline your goals, plan and budget for marketing, and evaluate your competition. You'll also get descriptions of inexpensive marketing ideas and activities that are easy to organize and do. Checklists, forms, photographs, and other examples will help you get started promoting your business right away! From Home Builder Press, 1995, 92 pp.2009 Home Builders' Jobsite Codes: A Quick Guide to the 2009 International Residential Code
2009 Home Builders Jobsite Codes provides the information from the 2009 International Residential Code in a compact, concise guide that can be taken along to the jobsite. The guide provides easy-to-read code requirements for every aspect of residential construction. This user-friendly field guide is packed with illustrations, tables, figures, and a glossary, to facilitate your understanding of the codes.Garden & home builder (Volume 1)
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently.The Real Goods Independent Builder develops subjects not covered thoroughly in other books, but critical to success:
Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project
Control costs, pace construction, and fully utilize resources with Microsoft Project. An organized, well-planned schedule is a builder's best tool. Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project provides easy step-by-step instructions to help you master this powerful scheduling program. Every chapter of Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project helps you learn and practice each new skill. The CD offers sample residential schedules.Thursday, September 29, 2011
ValueMatch Selling for Home Builders: How to Sell What Matters Most
Will Nowell has revolutionized the sales process with ValueMatch Selling for Home Builders. Proven, powerful, and effective, ValueMatch listening skills will help you open the door to your prospective home buyers emotional need to buy a new home. These skills, the core of the ValueMatch sales process, will help you match what your homes have to offer with what prospects value most in a new home and it usually has nothing to do with granite countertops or number of bedrooms. ValueMatch Selling for Home Builders will teach you how to build rapport within the first 60 seconds; sell yourself to establish a relationship; convey the builders concept or vision; make a dynamic presentation that includes asking for the close three times; put yourself and your prospect in a closing posture; complete the sale; launch a new after-closing relationship that brings in referrals. ValueMatch Selling for Home Builders is your guide for selling what matters most.Tomorrow's house: a complete guide for the home-builder
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.Coastal Design: A Guide for Builders, Planners, and Home Owners
No one can tell you how to build better and manage smarter than Al Trellis and Paul Sharp. Whether you need a business advisor, therapist, or drill sergeant, Building with an Attitude will get you thinking about your home building in new and innovative ways. Trellis and Sharp combine industry experience with common sense and entrepreneurial spirit to bring you solid advice that will help you run your business more efficiently. Get insights on management, design, hiring, customer relations, pricing, and marketing that will help you improve your business. By applying the tips and techniques shared by Trellis and Sharp, youll find that building homes really can be fun and profitable.
Key Features:
* Discusses how to know your market to increase sales
* Outlines systems to improve business management practices
* Describes how to develop and promote your marketing message
* Provides design hot buttons
* Discusses how to hire and motivate good people
Home Builder's Guide to Continuous Improvement: Schedule, Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Cost, and Safety
Presenting well-known tools and techniques, the Home Builder's Guide to Continuous Improvement provides important insights and necessary information to reduce cycle time duration and variation in order to improve quality and customer satisfaction and to minimize costs and accidents. Each chapter offers examples based on the authors' personal experience working with builders and trade contractors. Including figures and graphs to enhance the text, this book contains simple language, using residential construction industry terminology to improve understanding of continuous improvement concepts and practices. No previous math background is required, making it suitable for all levels.From Good Market Research to Great Marketing: A How-To Guide for Home Builders
Every time a builder visits a competitor's new home neighborhood, that's market research. Every interview with an architect or interior designer and every portfolio review adds to market research. Every meeting with miffed homeowners, every celebratory block party - well, you get the idea.
You are probably conducting informal market research already. Find out how to analyze and use this information to your greatest advantage in From Good Market Research to Great Marketing: A How-to Guide for Home Builders. Collecting market and buyer information requires skills you can readily learn with a little practice.The potential for increasing profits is enormous.
New home marketing expert Colleen Edwards discusses how to determine your audience, develop a product that meets their needs, and promote your homes and services to this target audience. From low cost market research you can conduct yourself to advice on hiring a consultant, Edwards examines a wide variety of market research techniques.
Making Ourselves at Home: Women Builders and Designers
General contractor Janice Goldfrank interviewed 21 trailblazing women, from experienced architects to novices who have never used tools, to assemble this collection of incredible, true accounts of women who mustered the courage and resources to design and build their own homes. Printed on acid-free paper. Photos & illustrations. Size D. National workshop tour.Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Honest House; Presenting Examples of the Usual Problems Which Face the Home-Builder, Together With an Exposition of the Simple
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: The Honest House; Presenting Examples of the Usual Problems Which Face the Home-Builder, Together With an Exposition of the Simple Architectural Principles Which Underlie Them:; Original Publisher: New York, The Century co.; Publication date: 1914; Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Dwellings; Architecture / General; Architecture / Residential; HouseEstimating for Home Builders
reduce cost overruns and avoid scheduling problems by developing complete and accurate construction cost estimates. This book describes the techniques, including the shortcut methods, that ensure success in the building business. Covers all the necessary cost factors, such as materials, labor, tools, supplies, equipment, subcontractors, overhead and markup. Includes information on computer scheduling; tables, forms and checklists; a glassary; and many examples including a floor plan and other drawings. From Home Builder Press, 1992, 181 pp.What's It Like to Be a Home Builder
A young boy watches as construction workers, carpenters, roofers, plumbers, electricians, and other workers build a house.
Computer Estimating for Home Builders
Computerizing the estimating process can help remodelers double their estimating productivity while increasing accuracy. The right software package can also make it easier to revise cost estimates and keep track of running costs. Modeled after the CAD Reference Guide For Residential Construction, this book is written to help you choose the right computer estimating software package for your company. It guides you through the steps of selecting and implementing an estimating system, introduces you to takeoff and analytical tools available from most programs and gives you practical tips that will help you increase productivity. Includes profiles of estimating software packages, a glossary of terms and an estimating software buyer's checklist. From Home Builder Press, 1998, 98 pp.Building Your Own House: Everything You Need to Know about Home Construction from Start to Finish
Learn how to obtain financing, control costs, ensure consistent quality standards, and more effectively manage your employees and trade contractors. You’ll find out how to identify market and industry trends that will yield business opportunities. Whether you are just starting your small-volume building business or you want to refine your current business practices, Basic Business Management will provide you with management guidance you can use to improve your efficiency and profitability.Social Media for Home Builders: It's Easier Than You Think!
Savvy marketing professionals in every area of industry are taking advantage of this powerful new marketing tool. As a residential construction professional, you too can use social media sites touild your brand; engage new and existing consumers; manage your online reputation; and sell more homes. Social Media for Home Builders. Social media expert Carol Flammer demonstrates the power of this new marketing medium through case studies and online outlets created specifically for the home building industry.Family Fragrance: Practical intentional ways to fill your home with the aroma of love (Heritage Builders (Chariot Victor))
the authors invite you to join them for a cozy supper of home made soup in front of the fire. You'll experience the warmth of their wisdom as you hear how they and other families apply these principles.Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Plan Reading for Home Builders
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: The Honest House; Presenting Examples of the Usual Problems Which Face the Home-Builder, Together With an Exposition of the Simple Architectural Principles Which Underlie Them:; Original Publisher: New York, The Century co.; Publication date: 1914; Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Dwellings; Architecture / General; Architecture / Residential; House
12 Unique & Innovative Green Home Designs from The Green Builder (The Learn2Build Green Building a Better Future Series)
When we think about building a home we want something that's stylish, affordable and that we can live in comfortably for a very long time - but rarely do we think that a green home can be all those things and more."12 Unique & Innovative Green Home Designs from The Green Builder" shows you that building a green home is just as affordable as a 'standard' home, giving you year round comfort, higher air quality, increased energy savings and a better way of life.
The 12 concept designs found in "12 Unique & Innovative Green Home Designs from The Green Builder" prove that a green home can be modern, sleek and effective, and all at the same price as a standard home.
Customer Service for Home Builders
A successful customer service program helps you close slaes and get referrals. With its forms, checklists, documents, and resource guide, this book provides teh tools you need to give your customer service program new life. Start managing customers' experiences instead of just reacting to issues that customers raise.Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog: The Complete Illustrated 1910 Edition
Sears, Roebuck and Company's 1910 catalog of home building materials, fixtures, and accessories — from roofing and siding to chandeliers and porcelain bathtubs. Vintage ad copy, specifications, and prices provide a nostalgic look back at the way homes were built at the turn of the last century. An authentic source for restorers of homes today.
The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
Cob (an old English word for lump) is old-fashioned concrete, made out of a mixture of clay, sand, and straw. Becky Bee's manual is a friendly guide to making your own earth structure, with chapters on design, foundations, floors, windows and doors, finishes, and of course, making glorious cob."I believe that building with cob is a way to recreate community and experience the joy of working together while taking back the right to build our own homes and look after our Mother Earth."
She loves doing something that makes sense in a world where lots of things don't.
Home Builders' Jobsite Codes: A Pocket Guide to the 2006 International Residential Code
Home Builder's Jobsite Codes provides easy access to the information you need. A quick reference to the 2006 International Residential Code, the guide provides easy-to-read code requirements for every aspect of residential construction. This user-friendly field guide is packed with illustrations, tables, figures, and a glossary, to facilitate your understanding of the codes.Monday, September 26, 2011
Building With an Attitude: How to Analyze, Understand, Improve, and Enjoy the Home Building Business
No one can tell you how to build better and manage smarter than Al Trellis and Paul Sharp. Whether you need a business advisor, therapist, or drill sergeant, Building with an Attitude will get you thinking about your home building in new and innovative ways. Trellis and Sharp combine industry experience with common sense and entrepreneurial spirit to bring you solid advice that will help you run your business more efficiently. Get insights on management, design, hiring, customer relations, pricing, and marketing that will help you improve your business. By applying the tips and techniques shared by Trellis and Sharp, youll find that building homes really can be fun and profitable. Key Features:
* Discusses how to know your market to increase sales
* Outlines systems to improve business management practices
* Describes how to develop and promote your marketing message
* Provides design hot buttons
* Discusses how to hire and motivate good people
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Patios and Walkways 1-2-3: Design and Build Beautiful Outdoor Living Spaces (Expert Advice from the Home Depot)
• Design and installation techniques, tips, and shortcuts used by professionals• Provides step-by-step instructions, timeframe for completing plus skills and materials lists
• "Wisdom of the Aisles" on every page guarantees success
• Details how to design, layout, maintain, and work with a variety of materials in building patios and walkways
• Features walkways using soft set paths, hard bed paths, brick and paver patterns, and boardwalks
Dream Homes New England: Showcasing New England's Finest Architects, Designers and Builders
Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end custom homes, these gorgeous books are a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own one-of-a-kind houses. Profiles of top architects and information on local builders and suppliers provide an overview of regional styles and preferences in each locality.
Representing all facets of northeastern architecture and home design, highly regarded architects present their captivating ocean-side residences of Nantucket, rustic woodland homes in upstate New York, and Boston’s aesthetic modern dwellings. Talented local architects Patrick Ahearn and Kevin Schopfer explain their ?hybrid” approach, while Jim Kellerher of Axiom Architects shares his philosophies on the significance of conservatively sized spaces and the effects of hurricane rebuilds.
Home Building Pitfalls
The true insider's guide to getting the quality new home you deserve. From choosing the right community through the final inspection, Home Building Pitfalls has the new home buying tips and tricks you must have to be on equal footing with your builder including:
How to avoid the "model home trap" used by every big builder
How to prevent your builder's assembly line construction techniques from getting in the way of the quality and craftsmanship you deserve
How to discover if your builder is telling the truth about claims of superior quality and customer satisfaction
How to prevent damaging mold growth that has become so common in new homes
The tactics used by new home sales people to "up-sell" and persuade you to unnecessarily spend thousands of extra dollars
How your builder’s attorneys are working overtime to make sure they have the upper hand... and what you can do to foil their efforts!
How you can protect yourself from the exclusions and exceptions in most new home warranties.
How to avoid the biggest scam you will encounter when buying a home - The Home Inspector Scam.
Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home
This year 1.2 million consumers will buy a new home, and they need real help in navigating the new-home minefield. The latest edition of Your New House includes charts, tables, black-and-white illustrations throughout, as well as updated prices and new trends in home buying. Also added is information on the dot-com shakeout, including what it means for online mortgages and home listings; more Web addresses for all major product manufacturers; and the best websites for deals on products like carpet and lighting. “The best book available on how to buy and build a new home.” — Chicago Tribune Building a Successful Home Staging Business: Proven Strategies from the Creator of Home Staging
Let Barb Schwarz----the creator of the Home Staging concept----show you what it takes to make it in the Home Staging industry.In 1972, Barb Schwarz coined the term "Staging" to refer to the process of preparing a home for sale, and turned her idea into a brand new industry. Today, thanks to Schwarz's pioneering efforts, Home Staging has become a big business with enormous profit potential.
If you are thinking about starting a Home Staging business of your own or just want to improve upon an existing one, then Building a Successful Home Staging Business is the book for you. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this practical guide will show you exactly how to set up a Home Staging business, and help you run and maintain the business as it grows. Some of the issues outlined throughout these pages include:
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How to write a business plan, market your company, and make the most of your resources
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How to work through the consulting, bidding, and Staging processes
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How to establish solid relationships with real estate agents and brokers
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How to obtain your Accredited Staging Professional (ASP) designation
Filled with in-depth insights, expert advice, and proven strategies that Schwarz has developed over the course of her stellar career, Building a Successful Home Staging Business will put you in the perfect position to profit from the many opportunities that exist in this dynamic market.
Updating Classic America Bungalows: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New
"Bungalows "is a unique combination of outstanding designs and proven ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building a bungalow style home. Featuring over 20 case studies of updated homes and bungalows built from scratch, the book is illustrated with inspiring original photography and before and after floor plans.
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Easy-Living Homes: 200 Exciting Plans for Active Adults, Professional Couples & Empty-Nesters (Blue Ribbon Designer Series)
Keep construction on track with helpful checklistsTurn your dream of a custom home into reality!
Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely -- and staying sane during the process!
Discover how to:
* Find the best homesite
* Navigate the plan approval process
* Obtain financing
* Hire the right contractor
* Cut design and construction costs
* Avoid common mistakes
Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery
Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies of six recent urban disasters--Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in California, as well as earthquakes in Mexico City and Kobe, Japan--Comerio demonstrates that several fundamental factors have changed in contemporary urban disasters. The foremost change is in scale, and as more Americans move to the two coasts, future losses will continue to be formidable because of increased development in these high-hazard areas. Moreover, the visibility of disasters in the news media will assure that response efforts remain highly politicized. And finally, the federal government is now expected to be on the scene with personnel, programs, and financial assistance even as private insurance companies are withdrawing disaster coverage from homeowners in earthquake- and hurricane-prone regions.
Demonstrating ways that existing recovery systems are inadequate, Comerio proposes a rethinking of what recovery means, a comprehensive revision of the government's role, and more equitable programs for construction financing. She offers new criteria for a housing recovery policy as well as real financial incentives for preparedness, for limiting damage before disasters occur, and for providing a climate where private insurance can work. Her careful analysis makes this book important reading for policymakers, property owners, and anyone involved in disaster mitigation.
People Power : The Building of a New European Home
This volume describes how individuals, networks and groups in Eastern Europe worked patiently for 40 years to erode and finally overthrow their discredited governments in the "velvet revolutions" of 1989. They proved the effectiveness of social resistance and "people power", and the author considers the significance of their success for international politics. Part two consists of interviews with people who were directly involved in the everyday struggles for democracy, offering new information and personal insights into their motivations and actions.
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