House Building Guide
- ISBN-10
- 187733071X
- ISBN-13
- 9781877330711
- Category
- Carpentry
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Authors
- Trevor Pringle, Mary Bennett, BRANZ
Description
This guide contains practical guidelines for good timber-framed house building, with hundreds of diagrams, easy to follow tables for quick reference and bullet points for easy reading.
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