Technical Library

"House Building" - a Practical Guide. $30.00
A re-issue of this popular book.
This step-by-step guide to house building starts with the financial and legal aspects and doesn't stop until the wallpaper's up and the paint's dry. In between it explains, with more than 150 pages of finely detailed drawings, precisely how to put together a typ[ical three-bedroom, timber framed house, including descriptions of:

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


“Rafter Lengths and Bevels” by R J Willson and K C Woods. $15.00
The quickest and easiest way of determining the lengths and bevels of all roof framing members, for roofs from 5 to 75 degrees in pitch, in 1 degree increments.

“The Builders and Home Handypersons Ready Reckoner” by R J Willson. $18.00
This is a book of facts containing data, tables, formulas and details. How to estimate quantities, fixings, time allowances and wastage. How to calculate for building works and other background information, short cuts and procedures used in the building industry.

“The Exemplar House” - revised 2002. $24.00
Specifically designed to be used as an example of residential costing. Detailed drawings, layouts and details of a two storey house, quantities of materials required taken off and costed. Alternative materials also costed. For use by all parties concerned with building costs.

Packaging and posting: Please add 12.5% for packaging and postage costs.
Please pay by cheque with your order to:
The New Zealand Building Economist
P O Box 35-930
Browns Bay
Auckland
New Zealand
You can also pay by direct bank credit - details shown below, then post your order to the above address:
Bank of New Zealand account number: 02 0159 0319064 00
Name of account: Plans and Specifications Ltd.

 

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