EVERY MAN HIS OWN BUILDER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 61

EVERY MAN HIS OWN BUILDER.

“Every Alan His Own Builder" is a title which sufficiently indicates tiio contents of a work by Mr G. Gordon Samson, published by Messrs Crosby, Lockwood, and Son, Stationers’ Hall Court, London, and a copy of which is to hand from Mossr* Whitcombo and Tombs. Mr Samson cot* tends that the man who has once built unaided only one email room—say an outhouse Bft or 3ft equate, for example,—if he has formed a fireplace in it, put a floor and a coiling and a door in it, and roofed it, will never afterwards feel the slightest fear that he will not be able to build a good-sized house. No one particular operation in building a house is very difficult. The difficulty, according to th* author, is, as in most other things, one of method—of knowing the proper order in which to do each particular thing; and tha author has endeavoured in tec pages of the book to elucidate all the mysteries and explain all the difficulties that will be encountered, for the benefit of the nninitiated. There arc numerous helpful illustrations, the student being shown, among ether tilings, how to prepare plans and fill up building schedule ' for submission to f.ho local authorities. When one considers Unit out of every £IOO expended on a -house about one-half, roughly speaking, represents the cost of labour, it is plain that if a man learns how to build a house himself half his erstwhile insuperable difficulty will bo. overcome. The book is well printed, the illustrations and drawings numerous and apparently easily understood.