House building process - advice, tips & articles

Large building & construction jobs for professionals or experienced amateurs. Will need teams, special equipment. Take all safety precautions.

There is advice here for anyone thinking of self build or a large renovation job. This is very popular now due to programmes like Grand Designs on Channel 4. It is also a way of saving money. Now that such a lot of home tips and advice are available it is less daunting to a beginner.

These pages help you look at a larger job after getting experience with home improvements and remodeling.

See also Home improvement & DIY >

And Vans, trucks, commercial vehicles >

• Architecture & building CAD software >
• See also: Tools for building and DIY >
• Timber buildings 1 >
• Timber buildings 2 >
• Timber building diary >
• Foundations >
• Walls & frames >
• Internal walls >
• Insulation >
• Sound insulation >
• Concrete >
• Rendering >
• Plaster >
• Cladding >
• Tiles & tiling >
• Roof tiles and tiling >
• Roof materials & design >
• Heat light and ventilation >
• Water use >

• Wholesale prices for small building trade, builders and DIY enthusiasts >

Lighting and lights - interior and outdoors

• Lamps, lighting, lights design, uplighters, chandeliers >
• Light in basement, cellars, underground lighting >
• Lighting the home, house, commercial, shops >
• Lighting, lights, technology types, halogen, neon, LED, solar, laser >
• Lighting outdoors, garden lights, solar, safety >
• Lighting outdoors, security lighting, safety lights >
• Lighting work, workplace, office lights, design, types, safety >
• Light pollution, artificial lighting, natural light, skyglow >

• Driveways build & driveway repair >
• Build barbecues, brick barbecues >
• Location of barbecue in garden and fuel >

Wine cellar and cellars

• Passive wine storage >
• Wine cellar build design cellar plans >

See also Craft & Traditional building methods for gabions, thatch, cob, earth, more >

Please let us know if you would like any advice or home tips on using materials, and the overall process of building, which changes with different materials - ie, a timber build is different from a steel building, etc.

You will find much of the advice here has a green approach. Our background is in green building so that is only natural!

We have many images of building process and built environment in our Image gallery, please use the navigation at the top.