Why You Should Not Build
Your Home Yourself!

"Visit any bookstore and you'll discover dozens of "do-it-yourself" house books.  These books passionately try to convince you that building a new house yourself will be the most-rewarding, least-expensive method of getting a new home. Pound the nails yourself and you could save that fat 15% profit the builder is charging.

Add to this the large number of do-it-yourself home centers that have sprung up across the country and the home-building shows on TV-the mantra of do-it-yourself building is mind-numbing.  However, there are many aspects of doing it yourself that get scant attention from doing it yourself books.  Slick salespeople and TV hosts don't always reveal potential problems for the do-it-yourselfer.