House Building - A Practical Guide R.J. Willson Reed books 1999 Book includes:

Preliminaries Setting out Flooring Walls Roofs Exterior and interior lining Foundations Decorating Finishing Maintenance

Lots of finely detailed architectural and pictorial drawings accompany this highly practical text.

Building your OWN House - a do it yourself guide to the new Zealand timber framed house. Reed books 1997 A do it yourself guide to the New Zealand timber framed house. It's a favourite dream with New Zealanders and now here is the book to help you turn that dream into reality R.J. Willson is head of the Carpentry Department, at Carrington Technical Institute, Auckland. He is the author of several publications, writes for most of the building trade journals and contributes to the Auckland Star. This step-by-step guide starts with the financial and legal aspects and doesn't stop until the wallpaper is up and the paint is dry. In between it shows in words and more than 158 pages of finely detailed drawings precisely how to put together a typical 3-bedroom timber-framed home:

• preliminaries
• setting out
• exterior and interior lining and trim
• foundations
• flooring
• walls
• roofs
• decorating
• finishing
• maintenance Materials and techniques are fully explained, along with advice on costs, timing, what you can do yourself and when to call in tradesmen.

262 Pages paperback

Each book was $39.95