--- product_id: 37681300 title: "The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction" price: "965 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/37681300-the-complete-guide-to-contracting-your-home-a-step-by store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction **Price:** 965 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction - **How much does it cost?** 965 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/37681300-the-complete-guide-to-contracting-your-home-a-step-by) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Save 30% on home construction! Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction by teaching you the ins and outs of managing your construction project. Learn how to get your project off to a solid start. Get financial and legal details in language you can understand. Learn what to consider when selecting a lot and how to deal with suppliers, labor and subcontractors. Gain understanding of building codes and inspections so you can manage with authority, confidence, and efficiency. This extensive guide walks you through each phase of construction including preconstruction, foundations, framing, roofing, plumbing, electrical, masonry, siding, insulation, drywall, trim, painting, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, tile and landscaping. Completely revised and updated, this edition includes a new section on sustainable building as well as the most comprehensive building resources section ever compiled. You'll find schedules, order forms, control logs, contracts and checklists to help keep your project on track. Review: Complete, Easy to Understand Summarization and of How to Contract Your Own Home Sequentially - Fantastic work authored in the 5th Edition book by the experts and professionals, Kent Lester and Dave McGuerty! You both hit the nail on the head! This is exactly what I would expect from a book, particularly a residential contracting book! This book presents very thorough, sequential, orderly, detailed, and easy to understand, step-by-step plans that are beneficial to anyone in the rough, general process of building, but especially helpful to the beginning contractor. I would say this book definitely sums up the most complete, significant basics, at a minimum, that are vital to any home being contracted. The book also shows how to inspect during the process of construction, even if you don't swing a hammer! Resources of where to find information are made apparent along with major building supply companies for each room of the house, masterplan checklist of where to begin, plan checklist, contract, and agreement, are located in the appendix of the book. There are lots of specialty books on the market of how to do certain things in construction, but this book summarizes and compiles it. I'm not a contractor myself and have never contracted any type of structure being built, but I find this field highly interesting and motivating. I enjoy picking out building materials, fixtures, finishes, working with numbers, and estimating costs, etc. The whole nine yards is presented from the building lot, foundation, framing, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, painting, trimwork, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, landscaping, and decks, etc. Well worth purchasing this book, even if you're only merely thinking about contracting and maybe not yet ready to actually build a home. I highly recommend anyone read this book, particularly if you're curious about the overall, general process of the contracting, building, and construction industry! Review: Great book! - This book will walk you through the process of building a home with forms, checklists etc. This book will give you confidence to build and manage your own build while saving lots of money. I know how to build a home, yet this book gave me ideas and additional knowledge that I wasn’t thinking about. If I were a beginner, I’d buy this book and read it twice before attempting to build your own home. Think about this, the investment and time putting into this book will payoff huge amount of return on investment. Follow the book and it’s worksheets. There is a lot to read and absorb, but you can do this! Time is your friend. Put the work into this book and reap the rewards of the knowledge you obtain and apply to building your home. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #41,332 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in House Plans #8 in Contracting How-to & Home Improvement #53 in Home Design & Construction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 686 Reviews | ## Images ![The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81hTlNXFL+L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Complete, Easy to Understand Summarization and of How to Contract Your Own Home Sequentially *by B***Y on May 19, 2020* Fantastic work authored in the 5th Edition book by the experts and professionals, Kent Lester and Dave McGuerty! You both hit the nail on the head! This is exactly what I would expect from a book, particularly a residential contracting book! This book presents very thorough, sequential, orderly, detailed, and easy to understand, step-by-step plans that are beneficial to anyone in the rough, general process of building, but especially helpful to the beginning contractor. I would say this book definitely sums up the most complete, significant basics, at a minimum, that are vital to any home being contracted. The book also shows how to inspect during the process of construction, even if you don't swing a hammer! Resources of where to find information are made apparent along with major building supply companies for each room of the house, masterplan checklist of where to begin, plan checklist, contract, and agreement, are located in the appendix of the book. There are lots of specialty books on the market of how to do certain things in construction, but this book summarizes and compiles it. I'm not a contractor myself and have never contracted any type of structure being built, but I find this field highly interesting and motivating. I enjoy picking out building materials, fixtures, finishes, working with numbers, and estimating costs, etc. The whole nine yards is presented from the building lot, foundation, framing, roofing, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, painting, trimwork, cabinetry, countertops, flooring, landscaping, and decks, etc. Well worth purchasing this book, even if you're only merely thinking about contracting and maybe not yet ready to actually build a home. I highly recommend anyone read this book, particularly if you're curious about the overall, general process of the contracting, building, and construction industry! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book! *by M***K on July 8, 2022* This book will walk you through the process of building a home with forms, checklists etc. This book will give you confidence to build and manage your own build while saving lots of money. I know how to build a home, yet this book gave me ideas and additional knowledge that I wasn’t thinking about. If I were a beginner, I’d buy this book and read it twice before attempting to build your own home. Think about this, the investment and time putting into this book will payoff huge amount of return on investment. Follow the book and it’s worksheets. There is a lot to read and absorb, but you can do this! Time is your friend. Put the work into this book and reap the rewards of the knowledge you obtain and apply to building your home. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good but may be confusing to the layman *by T***A on April 23, 2025* This book was quite thorough but many of the explainations might confuse someone trying to build their own home. I also found outdated ideas and even words that are no longer in use for example calling concrete block cinderblock which is actually quite rare compared to true CMU. Overall its very informative and has good lists and guides. 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