Showing posts with label Handbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handbook. Show all posts

Sunday, October 02, 2011

NAHB's Home Builder's Handbook

NAHB's Home Builder's HandbookALL-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!

Click here to buy from Amazon

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home

The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own HomeCob (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.

Click here to buy from Amazon