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Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House
by: Larry Haun

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.837
EAN: 9781561585328
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1561585327
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: August 10, 2002
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: October 01, 2002
Sales Rank: 189090
Studio: Taunton

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Available for the first time, Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House is a complete, step-by-step guide to building a house from the world's leading authority on community home building. Presented documentary-style, each process is illustrated with full-color photos shot exclusively for this book and accompanied by clear, authoritative and friendly text. An ideal book for beginners as well as more experienced builders, Habitat for Humanity How to Build a House covers everything you need to know about building an efficient, affordable, quality house.
-- Habitat for Humanity has built more than 100,000 houses, through 1500 affiliates worldwide
-- Includes information on building codes, building inspections, energy efficiency, professional building techniques and tools and materials

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The world-famous volunteer organization Habitat for Humanity now offers its best nuts-and-bolts expertise in an easy-to-follow home construction handbook. Whether the reader contemplates building his or her own house or plans on volunteering to build for others, Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House delivers on the promise of its title. Step-by-step instructions by author and veteran crew supervisor Larry Haun are provided in plain, simple English, with lots of encouragement and no condescension to beginners. Practically every page contains an extra 'helping hand' tip on materials, tools, building codes, or safety precautions. In hundreds of color photographs and black-and-white line drawings, the book follows the construction of a single house--from choosing its location to the final step of installing its exterior door locks. Reassuring personal stories from Habitat volunteers are scattered throughout, along with confidence-inspiring promises from the author such as 'building a simple house is not a mystery.'

Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat, has written a foreword to this book, and a percentage of the book's proceeds will be donated to the organization to help build more homes. Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, has built more than 100,000 affordable houses throughout the world. --Judy Fireman

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- A timeless reference
Even if you're not building homes for Habitat for Humanity, the processes, hints and reference material from this book will help you build your own, add on or simply unravel the confusion of house building. I DO work for Habitat for Humanity and this book has been by my side for 8 of my 15 builds. It's one of the three references that I recommend to any of my new project leads. It's geared for the inexperienced volunteer not the professional. Don't build a home without it.

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- Highly recommend
As a shop teacher I looked forward to receiving this book both from a practical sense, but also from a academic sense.

You could practically build or do a remodel of an existing home with this book. Nice step-by-step processes and with good supporting pictures.

There is information for the season contractor, builder as well as superb information for a 1st timer.

With some basic building and tool knowledge a person could build a simple building or at the least be informed as to how to guide others in the process.

Highly recommend

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- HFH How to build a house
Excellent book to help beginners understand to 'How Tos" of house building.

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- Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House
This soft-covered manual provides a remarkably concise overview of the elements of home building from A to Z. I have been a weekly construction volunteer with Habitat for 5 1/2 years, so this book is particularly appropriate and useful. Don't expect any coverage of plumbing or electrical work, but the remaining trades are very well done. Foundations, floor systems, walls and roofs are all covered, explained well, and accompanied by good pictures. For non-Habitat purposes, there are ample applications that can benefit from this book. These would include shed construction, decks, door and sindow installations, etc. There are many other books that deal directly with projects such as decks, but this text is definitely helpful as an overview of home construction.

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