A Primer For Builders

Excerpt from Primer for Home Builders By its very nature, home building is a field in which most of us have had no previous experience, and yet it is one of life's most important ventures. None of us wants to go blindly into this task, yet heretofore it has been necessary to struggle through thick and involved volumes to get the home-building background needed. Primer for Home Builders has been developed to fill this need; it is a simple, straightforward book explaining the important points you must consider in building a home. It is written by twelve of the nation's top home-building authorities, each an expert in his field. We told our authors to presume that their readers knew absolutely nothing about home building. Each author was to start from scratch, begin at the beginning and tell in the easiest possible way the fundamentals of his subject. For example, we asked Morgan Yost, who writes the chapter on architects, to tell exactly what an architect is, how an architect is paid, and what he does for his pay. We asked Charles Wright, who contributes the chapter on the financing of a home, to state the fundamentals of home financing in such a way that someone who had never had any interest in the subject before could read it and have a pretty good idea on how he could pay for the home he wanted to build. Primer for Home Builders is not an encyclopedia on home building. It does not solve every problem you may encounter when you build. But it should serve to indoctrinate you in the fundamentals of home building so that you will feel perfectly at ease in dealing with realtors, finance companies, architects, contractors and the host of others you must work with in constructing your home. Good luck to you on the adventure ahead! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.