In print since 1948, Dwelling House Construction is a homebuilding classic that covers site inspection, foundations, framing, windows, roofing and flashing, coatings, fireplaces and chimneys, insulation, hardware, plastics, mobile homes, and manufactured housing.This new edition has been substantially revised to take into account the many changes in materials and building technologies that have occurred over the past decade. The chapter on roofing has been completely revised. The chapters on coatings and plastics have been combined, as have those on manufactured and mobile housing. Sections on masonry, wood, steel, steel framing, and concrete have been added; the sections on septic tanks, balloon framing, braced framing, plaster, and standard requirements have been shortened, and specification clauses have been eliminated.Albert G. H. Dietz is Professor Emeritus of Building Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Albert G. H. Dietz is Professor Emeritus of Building Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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This book is clear, well illustrated, easy to read, complete, and thoughtful. If I were stuck on a desert island and needed to build a house (and, er, had access to a good lumberyard) this would be the book to have. I have been reading through it like a novel, and feel I'm learning something on each page. It is written for thoughtful students or beginners, but is well stocked with tables and charts that give you all the detail you need to select the right size floor joists or concrete foundation walls for a new dwelling.
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Note the quaint, outdated "dwelling house" in the title. This book almost describes how to build a 1940's house, with references to plank subfloors, counterweighted sashes, asphalt siding, etc. Even the writing sounds old, as from another era. Newer information is conspicuously tacked on, and an updated chapter by a different author is clumsily written. Too bad. Kind of ruins what was, in its day, probably a pretty good book. Anyway, the author's clear writing makes it enjoyable to read, so a beginner would probably still learn a lot.
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a. Before construction proceeds, it is customary, in the case of contract or custom building, for the owner and the architect to invite a selected number of builders to prepare estimates of cost and to submit bids, i.e., their proposals for building the structure for a specified sum of money in accordance with plans and specifications. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
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a. Before construction proceeds, it is customary, in the case of contract or custom building, for the owner and the architect to invite a selected number of builders to prepare estimates of cost and to submit bids, i.e., their proposals for building the structure for a specified sum of money in accordance with plans and specifications. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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