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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Integrated Design and Construction The house of your Dreams does not have to be expensive. The key is all in the planning. How much a house costs, how it looks, how comfortable it is, how energy-efficient it is—all these things occur on paper before you pick up even one tool. A little extra time spent in the planning process can save tens of thousands of dollars in construction and maintenance. That is time well spent! Living Homes takes you through the planning process to design an energy- and resource-efficient home that won’t break the bank. Then, from the footings on up to the roof, author Thomas J. Elpel guides you through the nuts and bolts of footings and foundations, slipform stone masonry, tilt-up stone walls, log home construction, building with strawbales, windows and doors, concrete and fly ash countertops, masonry heaters, terra tile floors, wood framing, solar hot water, plus plumbing, painting, and more! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Thomas J. Elpel | | Paperback: | 233 pages | | Publisher: | HOPS Press | | Publication Date: | 2005-03 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1892784181 | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 11 reviews |
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22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Looking for Slipform (slip form) stone masonry info? Nov 02, 2005
By Greg C
While the author is a knowledgeable on the subject, if you are looking for a book that covers the topic in greater detail then check out Tomm Stanley's book "Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building With Slipforms". The material is covered in greater detail and in a well thought out manner.
23 of 25 found the following review helpful:
K. Wilson Mar 09, 2006
By Kristin D. Wilson
Touches on a variety of "green" living homes. Not too many specifics on each type of construction. Good for an overview of options available. Not for the builder who has a particular form of construction already in mind.Good for starting the research process of green living.
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 How integrated design works with planning Apr 26, 2006
By D. Donovan, Editor/Sr. Reviewer
"California Bookwatch"
The house of your dreams needn't be unaffordable: integrated design and construction methods can help in the planning process and can result in much savings, and LIVING HOMES: INTEGRATED DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION is the perfect guide to that process. Chapters cover everything from calculating energy usage and efficiency to considering water supply and waste system options, bonding walls, and more. Black and white photos throughout reinforce instructions on how to cut construction costs along the way. LIVING HOMES deserves ongoing recommendation as an excellent choice for any who would pay attention to cost-efficient design.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
The down and dirty on alternative home building Jul 18, 2007
By T. S. Conner
Most of the housing being built today is shoddy. Volume homebuilding corporations breeze into town, rape the land, slap up substandard cardboard-quality "houses" on postage stamp-sized lots and charge hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. Many of these contractors get run out of the state, change their corporate name and then move on the next urban sprawl boom.
If you're sick and tired of seeing beehive neighborhoods spring up in your town with siding walls you can put your fist through, do yourself a favor and take this crash course on alternative homebuilding. This book will give you an excellent starting place to learn about how you can build your own high quality, inexpensive home with low environmental impact.
There is a lot of detail in this book on the methods presented. The "butt and pass" log home building chapter alone is worth 20 times the cost of the book. You won't easily find that information anywhere else outside of taking a log home building class from the Log Home Builders Association in Monroe, Washington, which is the only place I know of that teaches that method.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 A gold mine of construction specifics Jun 06, 2005
By Midwest Book Review
Most would-be home builders believe a dream house would cost a fortune to construct from scratch: that isn't true, maintains author Elpel, who built his dream house with his wife. The planning of such a home is the key - and is the key to Living Homes: Integrated Design & Construction. Chapters cover energy efficiency concerns, home construction basics, and water supply and management with an eye to revealing how design and construction can work together to fit into both a budget and a dream plan. From strawbale walls to interior finishing, Living Homes provides a gold mine of construction specifics for any neophyte builder.
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