Product Description

Hundreds of thousands of us renovate, convert, extend and improve our homes each year, and one-third of all new detached homes are self-built. If you're looking to build your own property from scratch, or work on your existing home, this is the one and the only book that you really need. "Building Your Own Home" has now been fully updated and expanded by David Snell, acknowledged expert and guru in the field of self-build, and it remains the best book on the subject. Packed with authoritative advice, charts, diagrams and photographs, this fully illustrated bible contains everything you need to know, from finding and buying a plot of land to explaining planning and building regulations, financing the project, buying materials and choosing the design. In addition, it also gives an insight into the costs and problems encountered by recent self-builders in a varied collection of new case histories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39765 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Evening Standard
[This] informative book manages to combine masses of information with a light touch...Hugely helpful and intelligent.

Grand Designs Magazine
"Covers every subject a self-builder needs to be aware of...for practical advice I can't recommend this book enough"

Homebuilding and Renovating magazine
"this is a book for the bedside table as well as the building site"

Customer Reviews

The Self builders Bible 18th Edition
I have read the new 18th edition , of which has been completetly revised, updated & expanded from early editions to 462 pages . Any one who considers self build needs good information at the Pre-planning stage, of which david snell is an acknowledged expert. Contains valuable information to any one thinking of starting a self build, renovation, conversion & extension project . Full of real life case studies and good examples in the UK.

re - the complaint 25 Jul 2006
I am using an informed guess here, but given this is the 18th edition of the book, the earlier reviews of this book are based on previous versions.

Books that have gone through a series of editions rarely change the content to such an extent that the previous reviews are worthless.

My two penneth anyway, and I am going to buy this book based on previous feedback. Thanks to the previous reviewers.

btw - the rating I have given is my expectation and I only gave one because I couldn't submit this review without entering a rating!

BYOH 18
This is not a review - rather it is a complaint that of all the customer reviews, the youngest is August 2005.
As the book wasn't published until March 2006 they are therefore complete nonsense.