How I beat the cost estimator

DAVID SNELL The author of Building Your Own Home, David is a serial self-builder and has been building homes for 50 years

Part Four: Roof covering

Before starting my last self-build project, I sent my Building Regulations’ plans off to an estimating service and received back a detailed breakdown of each stage of the build, with costs divided into labour and materials. In this series, I look at the key stages of the build (as outlined above) and explain the costs involved.

Happily, on this project I managed to bring the cost of my build in under