The Well-Built House; Everything you need to know before you have a new house built or an old one remodeled
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First edition. Hard Cover. Small quarto, pp. 276, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Item #23798
If you are thinking of building a house - or adding a room to your present house - this book can save you thousands of dollars and months of anxiety. In it, carpenter Jim Locke explains everything you need to know about how houses get built, what can (and often does) go wrong, and how to avoid common mistakes of design and construction. Written in a graceful and personal style, this book will delight anyone who has ever daydreamed of building. For the reader actually about to embark on a construction, it is literally essential reading. From the Old House Journal reference library.
Price: $45.00