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Building Your Own House
17Jul07
I started building my own home in 1989 with absolutely no experience in building a home. Within six months my contractor went bankrupt and left me with a half finished house. The problem was the half that was finished was done wrong. The foundation was already cracking, and the wood framing wasn’t built anywhere near what the drawings called for. What follows are the most important lessons I learned from building my own house.