The Modern Housebuilder

The whole method, on paper.

Thirty-five chapters taking one build from the first plot viewing to the day your home 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 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. The list is re-checked every month, and the free newsletter brings the changes and the whole live list.

Three formats

£29.99

Paperback

From Amazon, printed 6 by 9 inches.

£9.99

Ebook

From Amazon, for Kindle.

£9.99

PDF, direct from us

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

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.

The copy you buy, and the live one

The copy you buy is the copy you keep. The subscription carries the same chapters, with every tool, supplier and scheme they name re-checked each month, 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 holdsWho wrote it