The Homeowner’s Building Guide + Project Toolkit

Plan your building project with the knowledge of someone who has spent more than 30 years actually doing it.

The Homeowner’s Building Guide is a practical, step-by-step guide designed to help homeowners plan, price and manage a residential building project with greater confidence.

From developing your initial brief and budget through design, planning, finding the right builder, tendering, comparing quotations, contracts, payments and variations, all the way through to snagging, completion and warranties, the guide explains what you should be doing, what you should be asking and where building projects commonly go wrong.

Your purchase includes:

• The complete Homeowner’s Building Guide

• 19 practical Project Tools & Templates

• Tender and quotation comparison tools

• Budget, payment and variation tracking tools

• Builder selection and tender visit tools

• Pre-start, live-project and completion tools

• Lifetime access to your digital purchase

Built from real construction experience.

The guide has been developed from more than 30 years of hands-on construction, design and project-management experience — from working on the tools through to pricing, designing and managing residential building projects.

It isn’t intended to replace your architect, engineer, builder or other professional advisers.

Its purpose is to help you become a better-informed client.

Written for the UK. Useful far beyond it.

The guide is primarily based around the UK residential construction process. However, the fundamental principles of good project planning, contractor selection, tendering, cost control, communication and project management — along with many of the included templates — can be applied to residential building projects internationally alongside appropriate local regulations and professional advice.

Launch Edition: £49

Standard price: £99