The Modern Housebuilder

The whole method, on paper.

Thirty-five chapters taking one build from the first plot viewing to the day the house is handed over, written by someone who has spent thirty years doing it on other people’s sites. You can buy it and never come back.

The book's cover: the title in white caps on black, over a measuring scale marked nought to ten.

What is in it

It runs in the order a build happens. Where to look and what you can afford. Finding land and reading what is wrong with it. Planning, design, and the choices that cost the most if you make them late. The budget, the packages, the enquiries and the prices that come back. Then the site itself, trade by trade, to snagging and handover.

Three appendices behind it: the surveys you might need and what each one answers, every trade on a self build and what they leave you with, and the tools worth knowing about, each one checked and dated.

Three formats

  1. Paperback

    From Amazon, printed 6 by 9 inches.

    £29.99

  2. Ebook

    From Amazon, for Kindle.

    £9.99

  3. PDF, direct from us

    Through the same checkout as the subscription, and it creates no account.

    £9.99

The PDF costs the same from us as the ebook costs from Amazon. We could charge more for it and break nothing by doing so. Selling you the identical file for more money on our own site is exactly the thing this book spends thirty-five chapters teaching you to spot, and we are not going to do it on page one.

It is not on sale yet

The book goes on sale on the day the site does. There is nothing to buy here today and no list to join on this page, which is why there is no button on it.

The copy you buy, and the live one

The copy you buy is the copy you keep. The subscription carries the same chapters kept current as rules, prices and products change, beside the tools that do the work. The two are the same words in different states, not the same thing sold twice.

What the tools do, and what the record holds.

Who wrote it.

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