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Building a Multi-Use Barn: For Garage, Animals, Workshop, Studio
John D. Wagner
Williamson Publishing Company, 1994
The perfect builders' guide
+ Good on building, lacking on electric.
+ practical barn building
+ WOW! Fab book
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Branched Drain Greywater Systems [superseded by "The New Create an Oasis with Greywater"]
Art Ludwig
Oasis Design, 2000
All You Need to Know and More
+ Branched drains to the rescue!
Having read and heard so much about Art Ludwig's books on greywater recycling designs I first purchased Create an Oasis with Greywater and Branched Drain Greywater Systems hoping they would provide me with some practical assistance in establishing a system to facilitate wiser water consumption. I ...
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Practical Pole Building Construction: With Plans for Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings
Leigh Seddon
Williamson Publishing Company, 1985
Great practical book.
+ pole building construction review
+ The garage is almost done
This is a very complete book that doesn't leave the reader asking for details like so many others. It's written so beginners can understand it and it contains all the design criteria, load tables, joint details, and so forth that an experienced builder needs to get a building permit and construct ...
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Plumbing a House
Peter Hemp
Taunton, 1994
Correct information is the most important tool...
+ The best Plumbing book I've ever bought
+ a "must have" for either the do-it-yourselfer or aspiring professional
In Plumbing A House, Peter Hemp provides thorough and accurate information with very useful details and insights. I recommend this book to anyone who is doing any plumbing, having any plumbing performed for them, or who just owns a house and wants to have some idea of what provides the water and ...
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Measuring, Marking, and Layout: A Builder's Guide
John Carroll
Taunton, 2001
Excellent International Tutorial
+ What are you doing?
+ Good referance book
This is a well written book, in plain language. It will help any amateur considering building, or constructing brick, or wooden structures, or extensions. John Carroll makes the reader think about accuracy when approaching any building project. He provides many simple easy-to-understand methods on ...
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The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling
Daniel D. Chiras
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002
Amazing book - quite possibly the BEST on solar building
+ Gives more detail than other books
+ A Great Reference for building
+ Good overview of passive solar designs
+ The Solar House: Passive Heating & Cooling
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Builder's Greywater Guide: Installation of Greywater Systems in New Construction & Remodeling; A Supplement ...
Art Ludwig
Oasis Design, 2006
Another amazing book by Art Ludwig
+ very helpful
+ Greywater Guide
+ Great Buy
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Taunton's Professional Building Guides Box Set (Building Porches and Decks / Finish Carpentry / Foundations ...
Taunton, 2003
Containing one copy of Building Porches and Decks, Finish Carpentry, Foundations and Concrete Work, Framing Roofs, Remodeling a Bathroom, and Remodeling a Kitchen, this boxed set of six titles is the perfect gift for any do-it-yourselfer. In order to give builders the very best current information, each of these fully illustrated For Pros By Pros titles has been compiled from recent Fine ...
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Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book.)
Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2000
Excellent resource
+ Really good book.
+ Meaty.
+ Happy Piggy
+ How to Build a Straw House
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Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture
Bruce King
Ecological Design Press, 1996
The funniest structural engineering book I have ever read.
+ Earth, Straw, Yehaa!
+ Technical information on the mentioned building methods.
This book is definitely the funniest structural engineering book I have ever read. It is also useful for the professional, intelligible to the general reader, and attractively illustrated. King includes California's straw bale code, a comprehensive wish list for further testing, and a useful ...
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Soils in Construction (4th Edition)
W. L. Schroeder, S. E. Dickenson
Prentice Hall, 1995
Uses only simple mathematics and an emphasis on applications to explore the nature of soils and how various soil materials may influence certain construction operations. An appendix of 11 laboratory testing exercises provides hands-on practice with basic principles and procedures. Contains references to similar standard testing methods. Provides data sheets and examples. Covers soil materials, ...
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The Rammed Earth House (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
David Easton
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1996
A 'must' for any studying alternative housing, and sure to be a popular, repeat lend for any public lending library.
+ Good book with some drawbacks
+ This One's A Keeper
+ the most comprehensive rammed earth guide on the market
+ "East Coaster" Looking to use Rammed Earth
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Building & Finishing Walls & Ceilings (Black & Decker)
Editors of CPi, Phil Schmidt
Creative Publishing international, 2002
Not very detailed...
This book is okay. It does not provide much detail. It seems to try to cover many topics on few pages. In reading the overview, it appeared that there would be great details on framing walls and rooms. I also believed that it would great detail on hanging sheetrock. The book only covers these ...
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Working Alone: Tips and Techniques for Solo Building
John Carroll
Taunton, 2002
Working Alone
+ Uncommonly Common Sense
+ Working alone
+ Dobra pozycja dla pracujcych samotnie
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How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings
Monte Burch
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1992
How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings
+ Excellent resource for building barns
+ Makes everything so clear
+ Covers all of the essentials of 'how to'
+ great book
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