House building guide (3rd edition)
Product Description
This publication is a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step guide and is the ideal reference tool for anyone involved in house building. The easy-to-read format follows through all the key steps involved in house construction right from setting out the site to lining out.
This guide contains practical guidelines for good timber-framed house building, with hundreds of diagrams, easy to follow tables for quick reference and bullet points for easy reading. Informative illustrations show how all the elements fit together.
Note that since the publication of this book a number of Building Code Acceptable Solutions have been amended and new Acceptable Solutions developed.
| Publication date | 1 October 2011 |
|---|---|
| Author | Trevor Pringle and Eddie Bruce |
| Product type | Book |
| Availability | Available |
| Product code | BK089 |
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