How to be a Successful Owner Builder & Renovator
· ISBN 978-1-875217-31-1
This all-Australian guide has large-scale drawings that make it easy to understand how the various stages and components fit together. It shows the owner builder how to plan the house to suit the chosen allotment, the most economical methods of owner building, and how to identify and correct faulty building practices.
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What's inside
A companion to the Australian House Building Manual, with over 440 illustrations. You’ll learn the correct trade terms to use and how to order building products, and the manual will give you the confidence to build a typical Australian home in weatherboard, brick veneer, cavity brick or concrete block.
The renovation section is almost entirely devoted to room extensions. For general home renovations, see The Australian Renovator’s Manual.
- Becoming a Successful Owner BuilderMethods of owner building, kit home building, a quick building program, what’s involved in being an owner builder, selling the owner-built house.
- Choosing a Site & Designing the HouseSelecting the site, house styles, designing the house, deciding which materials to use.
- Understanding House ConstructionHouse construction types, foundations and footings, weatherboard houses and timber framing, brick veneer, cavity brick and concrete block masonry construction.
- Extending a HouseSiting an extension, joining new floors and walls to old, extending brick veneer and weatherboard houses, additions to roofs, adding a verandah or carport, buying a house to renovate, raising or repositioning a house.
- Planning, Specifications, Subcontractors & MaterialsPlan preparation, getting quality trade work, employing subcontractors or employees, plumbing, drainage and electrical, concrete, ordering and storing timber, estimating total costs, the building schedule.
- Identifying Improper Building Practice & Common ProblemsFoundations and footings, slab floor preparation, brickwork, brick veneer, cavity brick, concrete block masonry, carpentry, sheet metal roofing, plumbing and electrical, render.
- Measuring & Marking OutThe retractable tape, using a scientific calculator, marking parallel lines, scribing, squaring, bevelling and gauging tools, levels, string lines, setting out profiles.
- FasteningClaw hammer and nailing skills, screws and screw fastening, masonry anchors.
- Cutting, Planing & JointingHand saws, the portable power saw, portable plane, hand planing, joints in timber.
- Extra Building Know HowBricklaying, kitchen cupboard construction, building interior arches using Gyprock.
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