INVALUABLE FOR HANDYMAN Host Of Ideas

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31140, 17 August 1966, Page 12

INVALUABLE FOR HANDYMAN Host Of Ideas

The mood to rennovate a room, build a garage, make an addition to the house or even add an outside study (away from the family and television set) can strike at the oddest of times.

Often, in the cool light of afterthought, such thoughts are dismissed or pigeonholed in some corner of the mind. “It can wait . . .” Plans like these can be postponed. In some ways it is natural because any decision involving money is an important one and must be carefully considered. If it is decided to go ahead with a building plan, everything must be taken into account. Once erected, the building will last a lifetime. Once, the home handyman had to make many time-con-suming inquiries before and after consulting an architect or building contractor. But now this is a thing of the past. Specialists in the building industry now have all their products on display in one building. Modelled on similar institutions overseas (and more recently in the North Island), the Canterbury Master Builders’ and Joiners’ Association have

banded together to form the Canterbury Building and Information Centre. The South Island’s first, it is designed primarily to serve the public. In European countries, the value of similar services has long been recognised. Now they are virtually essential to successful budget living. Eventually the Canterbury centre, like its overseas counterparts, will contribute to the changing skylines of our towns and cities.

Indeed, a handy service for the home handyman.